Towards a sustainable risk management: Organizational complexity and achievement of strategic objectives

Abstract

This article advances in analyzing and developing arguments about the possible convergence of different models of specific risk management, with the purpose of giving support to a Sustainable Risk Management (SRM), from a systemic perspective that takes into account the present complexity within the organizations. Thus, the management framework of ISO 31000:2009-Risk Management through which the promotion of a context of assessing diverse risks in an integrated way (such as the environmental, the related to health and occupational safety or to quality) is presented. Finally, we move forward in proposing the articulate inclusion of other strategic organizational subsystems such as innovation, knowledge management and others, which aims to enabling the emergence of synergistic effects between risk treatment and the set of decisions-actions related to its management, making an impact on achieving organizational objectives in a key way.