Risk management. Origins, successes, and limitations of risk management
Jean-Pierre Galland
L'Harmattan, 2022, 194 p.
For several decades now, in industrialized countries, we have been "managing" various risks, sometimes with the help of more or less specialized risk managers. There is now even an international standard that lists and reports on the conditions for good risk management, for all risks. The undeniable success of this concept is somewhat surprising, especially when we remember its dual origins: on the one hand, within public authorities responsible for ensuring the physical safety of their respective citizens, and on the other, in large North American private companies seeking to reduce the financial burdens imposed by their insurers. How did these two initial and very different forms of risk management become sufficiently hybridized to make it conceivable to manage all conceivable risks, whatever their nature, at the same time?