Sensegiving as mise-en-sens—The case of wind power development

Organizational Risk as it Derives from What Managers Value: A Practice‐Based Approach to Risk Assessment

“…It is an epistemic mode or a mode of knowing situated in managerial practice. Geared to the organizational good and its evolutions, risk as an epistemic mode contributes to give meaning and direction to organizational activities; it participates in what Corvellec and Risberg (2007) call the mise‐en‐sens of organizational activities. If an organization meets something that looks like a risk, it merely meets its own creation made of value (one could nearly say love) and fear.…”

The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA): the case of offshore wind farms in Sweden

“…The job of infrastructure developers is to gain acceptance for their projects (Boholm and Löfstedt 2004;Corvellec and Risberg 2007), and in this study we show how they work for this purpose in regard to risk in the EIA. Our finding is that developers try to show that their project is risk free by simultaneously identifying and neutralizing any conceivable risk that can be attached to the project.…”

Sustainability Objects as Performative Definitions of Sustainability: The Case of Food Waste-Based Biogas and Biofertilizers.

“…The field material was searched for indications about how something as emblematic of non-sustainability as food waste can be turned into an object of sustainability if collected and processed separately. More specifically, the author focussed on how the actors proceeded, what retained their focus, what they built on, and, more generally, how they gave meaning and direction (Corvellec and Risberg, 2007) to their project. The Hervé Corvellec Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability 9 purpose was to write a biography (Humphries and Smith, 2014) of the project to transform food waste into biogas and biofertilizers, with a focus on the singularity (Passeron and Revel, 2005) of the case, but also with an ambition to bring forth how this singularity can shed light on other efforts that go in the same direction.…”