Due safety and security is not an end in itself but a condition for sustainable access, and is thereby an enabler to aid agencies’ institutional and operational goals of presence and program implementation. Safety and security management are increasingly seen as one element of an organization’s overall risk management, which also includes financial, reputational and legal risks. All organi…
Abstract. Treatments of risk in the international management literature largely focus on particular uncertainties to the exclusion of other interrelated uncertainties. This paper develops a framework for categorizing the uncertainties faced by firms operating internationally and outlines both financial and strategic corporate risk management responses.
Based on suggestions from reviewers, instructors, and students we have made a number of changes in the eighth edition of Developing Management Skills . • Added new skill assessments in Chapter 1 and a new case in Chapter 3. • Revised parts of the book to reflect suggestions and feedback from instructors and students. • Clarified instructions for scoring skill assessments and…
Over half of the students who enrol on economics degree courses have not studied mathe- matics beyond GCSE or an equivalent level. These include many mature students whose last encounter with algebra, or any other mathematics beyond basic arithmetic, is now a dim and distant memory. It is mainly for these students that this book is intended. It aims to develop their mathematical ability up …
Business leaders recognise effective risk management as one of the main success drivers for enterprises. Even though the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) concept has evolved significantly in the past years, in the aftermath of recent economic crises it became evident some of its critical challenges still need to be addressed. The review of subject literature led to a conclusion that current ERM…
Credit risk management in rural and community banks has become more important not only because of the financial crisis that the world is experiencing currently, but also as a crucial concept which determines banks’ survival, growth and profitability. Because credit granting is one of the key sources of income generating activity in rural banks, the management of the risk related to credit…
The FATS manual is a milestone on the road to EU-wide harmonised Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics (FATS). Its importance becomes even more apparent when we consider the political background to this project. All over the world, ‘globalisation’ is seen as the predominant agent of change and the main policy challenge. At the heart of this complex and somewhat blurry concept, however, lie busi…
Since the turn of the century, legislation in Western countries has ex- panded rapidly to reverse the brief dominance of laissez faire during the nineteenth century. The state no longer merely protects against viola- tions of person and property through murder, rape, or burglary but also restricts "discrimination" against certain minorities, collusive business arrangements, "jaywalking," t…
This book provides an opportunity to explore the fascinating, underpublicized, and sometimes misunderstood subject of social psychology. In it, twenty-eight intriguing studies that throw light on human social thinking and behavior are reviewed. These studies, mostly laboratory experiments, address topics such as people's unawareness of why they do what they do, the tenacity with which they…
The goal of the workshop that is the topic of this summary report, The Roleof Purchasers and Payers in the Clinical Research Enterprise, was to examine how purchasers and payers interact with the various components of the Clinical Research Enterprise and to understand their perspective on what the vision of the enterprise should be. Representatives from purchaser organizations (employers), paye…
Forensic accounting–expert witnessing is not a new discipline, but few accounting textbooks exist to present a broad view of the profession of forensic accounting–expert witnessing. Books do exist on special subparts of it, including the determination of damages, business valuations, general dis- cussions of fraud investigations, or other limited areas of forensic accounting. Books dev…
‘In this short history, Keith Oatley captures the current excitement of the ongoing ‘Affect Revolution’ and its historical antecedents. As psychologists seek to decipher the foundations of the many emotional values of animate existence, they should not forget the many historical roots from which the current blossoming of research is emerging. This gem helps put the field in perspect…