ABSTRACT
Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together for a common purpose to achieve business benefit. Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a defined and common business purpose. In this chapter, the objective is to provide a basis for describing an idea—collaborative risk leadership—but in doing so to seek out connectivity to the wider leadership literature. Additional important insights are drawn from research in strategic management, modern cognitive science, political science, international relations, and negotiations. Without question, the most comprehensive effort to address collaborative risk leadership is represented in the work of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC). Since 2003, the IRGC has set out a framework and an ambitious research agenda for better understanding what it labels Risk Governance, which:Includes the totality of actors, rules, conventions, processes, and mechanisms concerned with how relevant risk information is collected, analysed and communicated and management decisions are taken.
