Narratives of Project Risk Management: From Scientific Rationality to the Discursive Nature of Identity Work

The dominant narrative of project risk management pays homage to scientific rationality while conceptualizing as objective fact. Yet doubts remain regarding the extent which advocated quantitative techniques are used in practice. An established counternarrative advocates importance intuition and subjective judgment. New insights developed by a construct for purposes identity work. Project-based practitioners seen mobilize resources from competing narratives meet transient expectations those with whom they interact. Ultimately, tend emphasize approaches that sustain their ascribed identities custodians rationality.