Organ, John and Stapleton, Larry (2016) Technologist engagement with risk management practices during systems development? Approaches, effectiveness and challenges. AI and Society, 31 (3). pp. 347-359. ISSN 0951-5666
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The inability to engage with systems risk during the development of integrated socio-technical systems presents a real threat to global and local socio-economic stability. Current theories on system risk engagement are driven by a functionalist orthodoxy. Accordingly, risk management is either non-existent, done in parallel to other development activity, or used by organisations as an instrument of control. Systems risk management needs to be addressed at the source of the problem: the systems engineering process. This paper addresses the predominant failure to appropriately engage with systems risk during development. It provides, with respect to the theoretical dimensions, a diversity of risk perspectives, complexity and socio-technical systems theory. A broad literature review on different risk concepts, risk management perspectives and organisational paradigms (functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist) is also presented. In order to overcome a lack of a holistic and reflective risk management approach to systems development, this paper sketches an integrated soft systems methodology approach which can be used for engaging with systems risk during systems development.
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2015, Springer-Verlag London. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1211 |
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| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2022 23:01 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2023 18:41 |
| URI: | http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/3641 |
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