TY - JOUR

T1 - The corporate security professional

T2 - A hybrid agent between corporate and national security

AU - Petersen, Karen Lund

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - In our age of globalization and complex threat environments, every business is called upon to manage security. This tendency is reflected in the fact that a wide range of businesses increasingly think about security in broad terms and strive to translate national security concerns into corporate speech. This article argues that the profession of the security manager has become central for understanding how the relationship between national and corporate security is currently negotiated. The national security background of most private sector security managers makes the corporate security professional inside the company a powerful hybrid agent. By zooming in on the profession and the practice of national security inside companies, the article raises questions about where to draw the line between corporate security and national security along with the political consequences of the constitution of such boundaries.

AB - In our age of globalization and complex threat environments, every business is called upon to manage security. This tendency is reflected in the fact that a wide range of businesses increasingly think about security in broad terms and strive to translate national security concerns into corporate speech. This article argues that the profession of the security manager has become central for understanding how the relationship between national and corporate security is currently negotiated. The national security background of most private sector security managers makes the corporate security professional inside the company a powerful hybrid agent. By zooming in on the profession and the practice of national security inside companies, the article raises questions about where to draw the line between corporate security and national security along with the political consequences of the constitution of such boundaries.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - corporate security

KW - national security

KW - professionalization

KW - risk management

KW - hybrid governance

U2 - 10.1057/sj.2013.13

DO - 10.1057/sj.2013.13

M3 - Journal article

VL - 26

SP - 222

EP - 235

JO - Security Journal

JF - Security Journal

SN - 0955-1662

IS - 3

ER -