Riana Steen

Bi Norwegian Business School, Department of Financial Economics, Emerita

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I am Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, the department of Accounting Auditing and Business Analytics. I have also an Adjunct Professor position in in the field of Risk Management and Societal Safety, University of Stavanger. In addition to risk mangement and Resilience Engineering, my areas of research include human strategic management and balance secorecard.

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The Impact of Adaptation on Performance Through Business Resilience in Times of Crisis

Advances in business strategy and competitive advantage book series, Mar 22, 2024

Dark knights: Exploring resilience and hidden workarounds in commercial aviation through mixed methods

Safety science, Jul 1, 2024

The impact of interorganizational collaboration on the viability of disaster response operations: The Gjerdrum landslide in Norway

Safety science, May 1, 2024

Business continuity and resilience management: A conceptual framework

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Sep 4, 2023

Håndtering av langvarige beredskapshendelser: Læringspunkter etter covid-19-utbrudd på West Phoenix

Magma

Den tradisjonelle risiko- og sårbarhetsanalysen er utgangspunkt for dagens beredskapsplaner, som ... more Den tradisjonelle risiko- og sårbarhetsanalysen er utgangspunkt for dagens beredskapsplaner, som består av rammer og prosedyrer for håndtering av definerte fare- og ulykkessituasjoner (DFU-er). Turbulente endringer, økende gjensidig avhengighet på tvers av organisasjoner samt økende grad av usikkerhet skaper imidlertid utfordringer som ligger utenfor grensene for den tradisjonelle beredskapstilnærmingen. Håndteringen av beredskapshendelser knyttet til koronaepidemien synliggjør hvordan usikkerhet, tidspress og eskalerende konsekvenser forsterker behovet for resiliens, altså motstandsdyktighet, i beredskapsarbeidet. Gjennom studien trekker vi frem læringspunkter fra hvordan et covid-19-utbrudd på den flytende oljeriggen West Phoenix ble håndtert på operativt og strategisk nivå. Basert på en metodetriangulering utforsker studien rollene til oljeselskapets beredskapsorganisasjoner og deres håndtering av utbruddet. Resultatet fra vår analyse av empiriske funn fremhever at nøkkelen til r...

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Applying Functional Resonance Analysis Method to Strengthen Resilience in the Norwegian Customs Infrastructure

Proceeding of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference

On the Cyber-Emergency Preparedness in a Resilient Organization

Proceeding of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference

Bayesian Risk Assessment; On the Boundaries of Probabilistic Risk Assessment in the Risk-Based Inspection; An Alternative Approach BN-RBI

Book of Extended Abstracts for the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference

Military unmanned aerial vehicle operations through the lens of a high‐reliability system: Challenges and opportunities

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy

This study examines the impact of regulations and standard procedures on safety outcomes in unman... more This study examines the impact of regulations and standard procedures on safety outcomes in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, specifically focussing on Norwegian military UAV systems, from a high‐reliability organization (HRO) perspective. By analyzing data from existing regulations, accident reports, and interviews with military drone pilots using thematic analysis, we identify key recurring themes. Our findings highlight the importance of fatigue and exhaustion due to the absence of regulations on resting time for military drone pilots. This poses substantial risks and increases the likelihood of accidents and incidents in UAV operations. Additionally, we uncover gaps in safety reporting and accountability for military UAV pilots, indicating the need for improved reporting procedures that consider the unique operational elements of UAVs. Effective communication between stakeholders, including drone pilots, ground crew, and air traffic controllers, emerges as a critical fac...

Learning from operational planning

International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management

Resilience in emergency management: Learning from COVID-19 in oil and gas platforms

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Emergency management, both in civilian and military context, is regarded as a complex sociotechni... more Emergency management, both in civilian and military context, is regarded as a complex sociotechnical system, whose dynamic nature and complexity require a holistic approach. Over time, scholars developed diverse strategies and methods to capture such complexity and effectively design emergency plans for more or less severe disasters scenarios. Nonetheless, planning is not always an omni-comprehensive task, pushing organizations to stretch their adaptive capacities in dynamic and challenging settings. This manuscript explores such adaptive capacity as put in place by a leading Norwegian organization in providing emergency management solutions, facing unexpected challenges (at the time of the event): handling of Covid-19 infection episodes on offshore oil platforms. The study, conducted through the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) highlights the relevance of organizational learning which allows to handle emergencies by adapting plans to the specific context and by renewing new emergency management procedures derived from lessons learned. The study focuses on three different Covid-19 infection management cases to understand the nuances of actions and emerging adaptations that led to the development of a revised emergency plan, seen again through the lens of FRAM. While the methodological approach refers to Covid-19 infection management, we believe it can be extended into larger crisis management, providing a use case for the applicability of FRAM into emergency management scenarios.

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Patterns of Learning: A Systemic Analysis of Emergency Response Operations in the North Sea through the Lens of Resilience Engineering

Infrastructures

Crisis-induced learning (CIL), as a concept, has an ancient history. Although the academic litera... more Crisis-induced learning (CIL), as a concept, has an ancient history. Although the academic literature offers a range of sophisticated approaches to address CIL, it is still not quite clear how we learn, how we know we have learned, and what challenges and opportunities are involved in the CIL process. To address these questions and navigate ways forward, we need to use a specific real-world subject to capture contextual issues involved in a crisis cycle, which affects the learning process. In this paper, we uncover patterns of learning by exploring contextual issues involved with “actual scenarios” related to three COVID-19 episodes (emergencies) between August and December 2020. To analyze the study’s findings, we use three different themes from the DARWIN Generic Resilience Management Guidelines: (1) supporting the coordination and synchronization of emergency-response operation activities, (2) managing adaptive capacity, and (3) developing and revising procedures and checklists. ...

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“Samhandling”: On the nuances of resilience through case study research in emergency response operations

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Total Defence Resilience: Viable or Not During COVID‐19? A Comparative Study of Norway and the UK

by Riana Steen and Kevin Pollock

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 2020

The total defence (TD) concept aims to provide an effective crisis response structure by increasi... more The total defence (TD) concept aims to provide an effective crisis response structure by increasing society resilience. However, the complexity of its structure regarding resource mobilization and management process highlights the need for a complexity‐oriented approach in the operationalising of TD. We study the application of TD during the COVID‐19 crisis and explore what makes the TD a viable system with resilience capabilities in the face the crisis. We apply the Viable Systems Model as a methodology to compare the viability of the United Kingdom and Norwegian TD systems, both of which use systems networks to achieve resilience, and contrast the different outcomes of each country. Our analysis highlights that: Managing the complexity of the TDS requires that all of the involved agencies proactively adopt a transparent approach to a joint decision making. This demands a wide range of sources of innovative solutions at different levels. Joint exercises, developed by the responsible agencies, enhance mutual understating of roles and responsibilities and crisis response structure. This calls for institutionalized support to dedicate resources. To avoid communications challenges, involved agencies in the TDS need to adopt an open messaging strategy, highlighting how to deal with uncertainties in communicating of decisions and action.

Effect of stress on safety‐critical behaviour: An examination of combined resilience engineering and naturalistic decision‐making approaches

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Resilience in Crisis Management at the Municipal Level: The Synne Storm in Norway

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy

On the Application of the Safety-II Concept in a Security Context

European Journal for Security Research

We estimate conditional multifactor models over a large cross-section of stock returns matching 2... more We estimate conditional multifactor models over a large cross-section of stock returns matching 25 CAPM anomalies. Using conditioning information associated with different instruments improves the performance of the Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015, HXZ) and Fama and French (2015, 2016, FF) models. The largest increase in performance holds for momentum, investment, and intangiblesbased anomalies. Yet, there are significant differences in scaled models' performance: HXZ clearly dominates FF in explaining momentum and profitability anomalies, while the converse holds for value-growth anomalies. Thus, the asset pricing implications of alternative investment and profitability factors (in a conditional setting) differ in a non-trivial way.

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The concept of ignorance in a risk assessment and risk management context

Reliability Engineering & System Safety

There are many definitions of ignorance in the context of risk assessment and risk management. Mo... more There are many definitions of ignorance in the context of risk assessment and risk management. Most refer to situations in which there are lack of knowledge, poor basis for probability assignments and possible outcomes not (fully) known. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ignorance concept in this setting. Based on a set of risk and uncertainty features,

The trinity of resilient organisation: aligning performance management with organisational culture and strategy formation

International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management

In this work, we argue that resilience, as the fundamental quality needed to prosper from signifi... more In this work, we argue that resilience, as the fundamental quality needed to prosper from significant change that disrupts an organization's expected patterns of events, depends on the organization's culture, strategy content and formation, and performance management systems. Thus, it is thought-provoking that research in the field of performance management is largely disconnected from the adjoining fields of culture, strategy formation, and safety management. By discussing features of and connections between organizational culture and strategy formation for resilient organization, we provide a platform on which a performance management framework is developed. Vital in this respect is an organization's ability to address the factual, potential, actual, and critical. On the one hand, our work aspires to shed light on and bring research attention to the trinity of organizational culture, strategy formation, and performance management. On the other, our suggested resilient performance management framework contributes to make the concept of resilience operational.

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Comparison of two cost-benefit type of analyses to support a safety related decision under large uncertainties: A case of use of wireless technology in schools

The Impact of Adaptation on Performance Through Business Resilience in Times of Crisis

Advances in business strategy and competitive advantage book series, Mar 22, 2024

Dark knights: Exploring resilience and hidden workarounds in commercial aviation through mixed methods

Safety science, Jul 1, 2024

The impact of interorganizational collaboration on the viability of disaster response operations: The Gjerdrum landslide in Norway

Safety science, May 1, 2024

Business continuity and resilience management: A conceptual framework

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Sep 4, 2023

Håndtering av langvarige beredskapshendelser: Læringspunkter etter covid-19-utbrudd på West Phoenix

Magma