Systemic Risks and Organizational Challenges in Transformative Processes: ‘Cybersecurity’ in the Food Field.

Dendler L, Nicklich M, Schulze A, Pfeiffer S (2024)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2024

Publisher: De Gruyter

Edited Volumes: The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation.

Pages Range: 165-187

ISBN: 9783110986945

DOI: 10.1515/9783110986945-009

Abstract

This contribution shows how ‘grand transformations’ - often framed as (technical) solutions to ‘grand challenges’ - can cause (follow-up) systemic risks, using digital transformation causing cybersecurity risks in the food field as an example. Drawing upon reviews of organization, risk, labor, science and technology and communication literature, it discusses how organizations can shape and cope with the complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity and rippling effects of systemic risks and overall transformations. In particular, it illustrates how problem solving extends to several levels - technical-organizational structures, socio-technical interactions as well as all actors and their communication with each other need to be considered. Thus, not only questions about interfaces and inter-organizational structures but also the process level - and hence the ‘risk work’ at the frontline - are central to the challenge of cybersecurity and other systemic risks. Developing a multi-disciplinary perspective on the complex relationship between risk, communication and organizing, the contribution calls to move beyond purely technical problem-solving towards more participatory architectures and distributed experimentation.

Authors with CRIS profile

Manuel Nicklich Nuremberg Campus of Technology (NCT) Sabine Pfeiffer Lehrstuhl für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Technik - Arbeit - Gesellschaft

Involved external institutions

Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Dendler, L., Nicklich, M., Schulze, A., & Pfeiffer, S. (2024). Systemic Risks and Organizational Challenges in Transformative Processes: ‘Cybersecurity’ in the Food Field. In Weik, E./Land C./Ronald Hartz, R. (Eds.), The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation. (pp. 165-187). De Gruyter.

MLA:

Dendler, Leonie, et al. "Systemic Risks and Organizational Challenges in Transformative Processes: ‘Cybersecurity’ in the Food Field." The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation. Ed. Weik, E./Land C./Ronald Hartz, R., De Gruyter, 2024. 165-187.

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