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Uncertainty : individual problems and public solutions /

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"Uncertainty is inherent in human existence and can be an opportunity or a fundamental problem for individuals and organizations. The environment of actors, individuals and organizations alike, is uncertain (Ahrne 1994), which means that we cannot predict the outcomes of actions. This is to say...

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Main Author: Aspers, Patrik, 1970- (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Pres, [2024]
Subjects:
Uncertainty > Social aspects.
Risk > Social aspects.
Decision making.
Incertitude > Aspect social.
Risque > Aspect social.
Prise de décision.
decision making.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • How Much Can We Know?
  • Decision-Making Under Uncertainty, Risk, and Ambiguity
  • Attempts to Turn Uncertainty into Risk
  • Knowledge as a Remedy for Uncertainty
  • The Hermeneutics of Knowledge
  • Private Ways of Reducing Uncertainty
  • Public Ways of Reducing Uncertainty
  • Outline
  • PART I: Principles of States of the World
  • 2. Informal Institutions
  • Informal and Formal Institutions
  • From Struggle to Informal Institutions
  • The Lifeworld of Informal Institutions
  • Institutionalization
  • How Informal Institutions Show Up
  • How Do Institutions Reduce Uncertainty?
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Formal Institutions
  • Decisions for Others in Public
  • Setting Laws
  • Standards
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Evaluation
  • Evaluations and Their Prevalence
  • Evaluation Against Objective Scales
  • Evaluation as a Discourse-Towards Decisions for Others
  • Conclusion
  • PART II: Forms Producing States of the World5. Convaluation
  • 5. Convaluation
  • Convaluations as Forms
  • Value Uncertainty
  • Mutual Adjustment
  • Grown and Decided Forms of Convaluations
  • Producer Markets as Grown Economic Convaluations
  • Convaluations as Result of Decisions-Organization
  • Elections as Decided Convaluations
  • Exchange Markets as Decided Convaluations
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Deciding for Others
  • Valuation Arising from Decisions for Others
  • Valuation as an Evaluation Discourse
  • Reviews
  • Ratings
  • Prizes as Indirect Competition
  • Rankings
  • Predictions
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Contest
  • Concepts of Contest
  • From Violence to Peaceful Contests
  • Indirect Contests and Competition
  • The Culture of Contest
  • The Making of Forms of Contest
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Making and Reducing Uncertainty
  • The Making of Means of Uncertainty Reduction
  • Addressing Uncertainty
  • The Opportunity of Uncertainty
  • Existential Uncertainty Reduction
  • Private Truth Claims and the Public
  • Appendix. A Typology of Convaluations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index