Book contents
- Legal Knowledge in Organizations
- Legal Knowledge in Organizations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Legal Knowledge in Organizations
- 3 Factors That Influence Legal Knowledge Acquisition
- 4 Legal Knowledge in Competitive Environments
- 5 Legal Knowledge in Competitive Environments
- 6 Applications of Legal Knowledge
- 7 Strategic Legal Risk Management
- 8 Strategic Legal Risk Management
- 9 Leveraging Contractual Knowledge to Create and Preserve Value
- 10 Building an Ethical Culture of Legal Knowledge
- Index
8 - Strategic Legal Risk Management
Managing Complexity and Ambiguity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2025
- Legal Knowledge in Organizations
- Legal Knowledge in Organizations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Legal Knowledge in Organizations
- 3 Factors That Influence Legal Knowledge Acquisition
- 4 Legal Knowledge in Competitive Environments
- 5 Legal Knowledge in Competitive Environments
- 6 Applications of Legal Knowledge
- 7 Strategic Legal Risk Management
- 8 Strategic Legal Risk Management
- 9 Leveraging Contractual Knowledge to Create and Preserve Value
- 10 Building an Ethical Culture of Legal Knowledge
- Index
Summary
Continuing the exploration of transformative legal risk management, this chapter addresses the remaining two risk dimensions that govern a VUCA environment: complexity and ambiguity. Complexity is an environment that contains numerous interconnected parts, accepts inputs, generates outputs, and develops a capacity to learn and remember. The fourth and final dimension of VUCA is ambiguity. Especially challenging for firms deploying legal knowledge, ambiguity is an environment where causes and effects propelling events forward are largely unknown, the firm does not know whether an organized system will emerge, and little historical precedent exists for determining the most appropriate course of action. The chapter defines complexity and ambiguity, explains how they are applicable to legal risk, and articulates strategies for firms to use their legal knowledge to anticipate and address complex and ambiguous legal problems.
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- Legal Knowledge in OrganizationsA Source of Strategic and Competitive Advantage, pp. 177 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025