Allocating and managing resources has always been an important cornerstone of institutional leadership. Institutional resources include financial, physical and human components. Even in the best of times, it is a challenge to do this effectively. In times of diminished and shrinking resources, the difficulties of distributing these precious commodities across the institution in the most equi…
Educational institutions are becoming increasingly important for regional and national economies. Recent developments in Europe have drawn attention to the need for elite institutions. After a long domestic debate, Germany appointed three of its universities to Eliteunis in the fall of 2006. Similar discussions and initiatives have taken place in Finland and Denmark. In 2007, the Swedish un…
These guidelines address the growing need of management development and governance programmes that are broad-based and involve a number of actors and institutions that work together in common systems (for example, judicial, financial, information, electoral, planning, decentralised systems). Other thematic areas can adapt and utilise these guidelines as well. In fact, development practitio…
As outsourcing is becoming mandate for today’s business, there has been a variety of researches taking place. This paper discusses on managing operational risks in an organization where one or more business processes are being outsourced. We first review on changing nature of operational risks not only in outsourced process itself, but also among any other interrelated processes. Then a c…
With great speed and relatively little public awareness, a significant change has occurred in the way some decisions are made about a patient's medical care. Decisions that were once the exclusive province of the doctor and patient now may be examined in advance by an external reviewer—someone accountable to an employer, insurer, health maintenance organization (HMO), or other entity responsi…
In 1999, the multidisciplinary Tavistock group prepared a generic statement of ethical principles to govern health care systems. This paper elaborates on these principles in two directions. First, it develops a set of quality standards, based on ethical principles, intended to regulate health care delivery and service management. Second, it focuses them on ‘publicly oriented’ (not necessari…
Abstract A review of the extant literature of enterprise risk management (ERM) and capital allocation shows that insurers have an incentive to manage capital costs through risk management. Capital is the most expensive and important input in production for insurance companies. They deploy capital by holding a large number of financial risk positions that need to be evaluated. ERM can help …
Globalization of markets, the extremely fast pace of technology, especially in communications technology, increasingly fierce competition between credit institutions to provide the most competitive products and services to customers led to an acceleration of activities in the banking system internationally. The cooperative banks have undergone extensive reforms since 2006, pursuing their re…
The Accounting Education Change Commission has recommended accounting courses include a focus on non-technical skills, such as written and oral communication, teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. Employers of entry-level managerial accountants have indicated these skills are necessary, but that students are also lacking in technical cost or managerial accounting preparat…
The challenges that complicate strategic management in emerging industries, like the renewable energy industry, motivate this dissertation. In particular, difficulties stemming from the industrial context, from environmental uncertainty, and from manager-stakeholder interactions are discussed. The most prominent environmental hurdles are thereby to be found in the areas of regulation, technolog…
The term ‘strategy’ proliferates in discussions of business. Scholars and consultants have provided myriad models and frameworks for analysing strategic choice (Hambrick and Fredrickson, 2001). For us, the key issue that should unite all discussion of strategy is a clear sense of an organization’s objectives and a sense of how it will achieve these objectives. It is also important tha…
Financial risk management is a huge field with diverse and evolving components, as evidenced by both its historical development (e.g. Diebold, 2012 ) and current best practice (e.g. Stulz, 2002 ). One such component—probably the key component—is risk measurement , in particular the measurement of financial asset-return volatilities and correlations (henceforth “volatilities”). Cruci…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of firm size on enterprise risk management for the listed firms in Kenya. Effectiveness of enterprise risk management is measured by financial performance of the listed firms. A descriptive research design was used. Theoretically, ERM adds value to an organization, however there is disagreement among scholars on whether ERM add value to a…
The purpose of this Guideline is to facilitate implementation of requirements contained in the Strategic Management Specification with regard to the development and implementation of key performance indicators. This Guideline explains how to develop and use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for records management. It is based on a number of methodologies for developing KPIs in general whic…
The purpose of this Guideline is to facilitate implementation of requirements contained in the Strategic Management Specification with regard to the development and implementation of key performance indicators. This Guideline explains how to develop and use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for records management. It is based on a number of methodologies for developing KPIs in general which we…
Most oil and gas companies do not like to consider themselves “energy traders.” In their view, energy trading is more closely associated with investment banks and merchant energy companies. However, nearly all oil and gas companies are exposed to conditions or are engaged in activities that contribute to a risk profile that is very similar to that of an energy trading concern. Oil an…