Risk cultures and dominant approaches towards disasters in seven European countries

Manifold Conceptions of the Internal Auditing of Risk Culture in the Financial Sector

“…Erasmus and Coetzee 2018;Roussy and Brivot 2016). In doing so, we enrich the literature on the IA of risk culture that focused on either the contextual viewpoints of implementers (Carretta et al 2017;Cornia et al 2016;Palermo et al 2016) or the regulatory viewpoints (Power 1999;Ring et al 2016) by highlighting its manifold notion.…”

“…Further motivation for the paper arose from the three underlying challenges in the application of IA to risk culture. First, unlike organizational processes such as risk management where specific protocols, process ownership, and departments provide tangible boundaries for IA (Hall et al 2015;Mikes 2009Mikes , 2011, risk culture concerns the intangible domain of individual motivations and behaviors (Cornia et al 2016). This raises ethical concerns on how far IA should colonize and control employees through the IA of risk culture (Ezzy 2001;McCabe 2014).…”

Coping with blackouts: A practice theory approach to household preparedness

“…The study is based on fieldwork in Norwegian and Swedish rural areas, where households have experienced long‐term breakdowns in the electricity infrastructure. We treat the data material as one case because of the similarities between the two countries' energy regimes (mainly electricity for household consumption, part of the same electricity market Nord Pool) (Statens Energimyndighet, ; Statistics Norway, ), geography (long and cold winter seasons during which winter storms that causes blackouts tend to occur), and crisis management and preparedness regimes (citizens are expected to be prepared) (Cornia, Dressel, & Pfeil, ; Throne‐Holst et al., ).…”

Toward a global understanding of the effects of the IDEA model for designing instructional risk and crisis messages: A food contamination experiment in Sweden

“…This conclusion confirms findings about the utility of the IDEA model as a theoretical framework for designing effective instructional risk and crisis messages gleaned from similar message‐testing experiments conducted on U.S. populations (Frisby et al., ; Littlefield et al., ; Sellnow, Lane et al., ; Sellnow, Iverson et al., ; Sellnow, Lane et al., ; Sellnow, Parker et al., ). This conclusion is particularly encouraging because it also suggests that, although there may be cultural differences that influence perceptions about who is primarily responsible for crisis management during extreme events, messages designed according to the IDEA model appear to also produce appropriate behavioural learning intentions among citizens in state‐oriented risk cultures like Sweden (Cornia et al., ; Oden et al., ).…”

“…/1468 Wildavsky, 1982; Frandsen & Johansen, 2016). People in individualoriented risk cultures tend to rely more on themselves to manage risks and crises (although certainly not exclusively) than those in stateoriented risk cultures like Sweden that tend to believe strongly that the authorities are the main (and often the only) actor responsible for risk and crisis management (Cornia et al, 2016;Klein, Nicholls, & Thomalla, 2004). Empirical research is warranted, then, to discover what is effective instructional risk and crisis message design for such state-oriented risk cultures.…”