What Influences Banks' Choice of Risk Management Tools?

This paper investigates the factors influencing banks’ decision to engage in advanced risk management, from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. In recent decades, credit risk management in banks has become highly sophisticated and banks have become more active and advanced in the management of credit risks. We identify two driving factors for risk management: bank competition…

The Planning System and Flood Risk Management

The planning system plays a major national and local role in ensuring that development is promoted and guided in a manner that is sustainable in economic, social and environmental terms. The Government’s National Spatial Strategy 2002-2020, the National Development Plan 2007-2013, the National Sustainable Development Strategy - Making Ireland’s Development Sustainable (2002) and the Planni…

Disaster Risk Research and Assessment to promote Risk Reduction and Management.

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Strategic Management Concepts & Cases

Our goal in writing each edition of this book is to present a new, up-to-date standard for explaining the strategic management process. To reach this goal with the 8th edition of our market-leading text, we again present you with an intellectually rich yet thoroughly practical analysis of strategic management. With each new edition, we are challenged and invigorated by the goal of establish…

Risk Management: An Introduction

We live in a world of risk. Some risks are totally unexpected. The September 11, 2001 World Trade Centre attacks in the US, the Tsunami of December 2004, Hurricane Katrina of August 2005, and the Mumbai terrorist strikes of November 2008 are good examples. Other risks can be identified but the magnitude and extent are difficult to estimate. The sub prime crisis is a good example. Not all risks …

Communication Skills

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Bank Financial Management

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DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT

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Exploring the Mechanisms for Implementing a Risk Management Process:Overall A…

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Elements of Finacial Risk Management

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QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT: CONCEPTS, TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS*

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Working Capital And Strategic Debtor Management: Exercises

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PROCESS MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE. SANT CAMIL HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

Nowadays due to the crisis, some government measures are aimed at reducing healthcare spending, affecting in some level or another the quality offered. Process management is said to be a useful tool for reducing healthcare costs by improving management without any additional economic investment. That is doing more with the same resources and without reducing the quality offered. In this study a…

Leadership and Strategic Management: Keys to Institutional Priorities and Pla…

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…

From risk management to ERM

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CAPACITY ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT : In a Systems and Strategic Management C…

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…

Management of Foreign Exchange Risks in a Selected Commercial Bank, in Nigeria

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RISK MANAGEMENT A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATION

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NASA Risk Management Handbook

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Controlling Costs and Changing Patient Care

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…

Introduction to Fire Safety Management

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RISK MANAGEMENT IN COOPERATIVE BANKS FROM THE 21ST PERSPECTIVE

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…

Abandoning Silos for Integration: Implementing Enterprise Risk Management and…

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Strategic Management in Emerging Industries: Evidence from the Renewable Ene…

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…

Numerix Model Risk Management

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Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management

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…

Effects of Firm Size on Enterprise Risk Management of Listed Firms in Kenya

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…

Strategic Management

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…

Key Performance Indicators

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…

ENERGY TRADING RISK MANAGEMENT

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…