Purpose

Risk management (RM) is receiving increasing academic and practitioner attention in the public sector. Despite this, there is a lack of systematization of this body of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the state of art by examining the knowledge gaps and defining the emerging themes of RM in the public sector to guide future research agendas.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors conducted a structured literature review (SLR). They analyzed 63 papers, by using Scopus database, published from 1990 to 2018. All papers were categorized and analyzed according to 11 criteria defined by the literature.

Findings

Results show that there is an increasing attention to RM with a need for more effort to consolidate research knowledge. Findings also established a lack of theorization, with a limited explanatory capacity of most studies. The paper defined four main areas for future developments to increase the body of knowledge. Namely, RM and managerial systems (i.e. MCSs and performance management), integrating RM systems and the building blocks of RM that the authors identify will also play a role in helping the authors to understand the diffusion of RM within public sector organizations.

Originality/value

Despite the increasing attention to RM in the public sector, more research is required. Considering RM in public sector risks to be a “black box”, this paper revealed some new insights that could help to analyze better RM in the public sector, to open the black box and to avoid a symbolic use of the RM. In fact, integration with the managerial systems and the strengthening of the building block could help to exploit the potential of RM in the public sector.

中文翻译：

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公共部门的风险管理：结构化文献综述

目的

风险管理（RM）在公共领域越来越受到学术界和从业者的关注。尽管如此，仍然缺乏这种知识体系的系统化。本文的目的是通过检查知识差距并定义公共部门RM新兴主题来分析最新技术，以指导未来的研究议程。

设计/方法/方法

作者进行了结构化文献综述（SLR）。他们使用Scopus数据库分析了1990年至2018年发表的63篇论文。所有文献均根据文献定义的11条标准进行分类和分析。

发现

结果表明，RM越来越受到关注，需要更多的努力来巩固研究知识。研究结果还证实缺乏理论化，大多数研究的解释能力有限。该文件定义了未来发展以增加知识体系的四个主要领域。即，RM和管理系统（即MCS和绩效管理），集成了RM系统和作者确定的RM构成模块，也将在帮助作者了解RM在公共部门组织中的传播方面发挥作用。

创意/价值

尽管公共部门越来越重视RM，但仍需要更多的研究。考虑到公共部门风险中的风险管理是一个“黑匣子”，本文揭示了一些新见解，可以帮助分析公共部门中更好的风险管理，打开黑匣子并避免对RM的象征性使用。实际上，与管理系统的集成和构建模块的加强可以帮助开发RM在公共部门中的潜力。