TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM DIVERSITY, GROUP PROCESS, AND STRATEGIC CONSENSUS

This study integrated concepts from upper echelons, group process and social cognition theories to investigate how demographic diversity and group processes influence strategic consensus within the top management team (TMT), where strategic consensus is defined as the degree to which individual mental models of strategy overlap. Data from 76 high-technology firms in the United States and Ir…

Strategic Management of Stakeholders: Theory and Practice

This article explores how top management teams can increase the robustness of their strategies by attending to important concepts emerging from the stakeholder literature. Analysis of three themes emanating from this literature leads to the development of a method composed of three techniques which elaborates how stakeholder management concepts can be applied in practice. The research, which sp…

Managing the Business Risk of Fraud: A Practical Guide

As noted, fraud is any intentional act or omission designed to deceive others, resulting in the victim suffering a loss and/or the perpetrator achieving a gain. Regardless of culture, ethnicity, religion, or other factors, certain individuals will be motivated to commit fraud. A 2007 Oversight Systems study5 discovered that the primary reasons why fraud occurs are “pressures to do ‘whate…

Managing the Business Risk of Fraud: A Practical Guide

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Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics in Higher Education: A Guide

In Why Does College Cost So Much? and The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out, the authors describe some key factors affecting decision making in higher education today.1 Due to increases in the value of higher education to economic competitiveness and upward mobility, sustained increases in the cost of higher education, growing scrutiny and demands f…

Total Quality Management

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An Introduction to Market Risk Measurement

This book provides an introduction to VaR and ETL estimation, and is a more basic, student-oriented version of Measuring Market Risk, also published by John Wiley. The present book differs from Measuring Market Risk in cutting out some of the more difficult material—quasi-Monte Carlo methods, lattice methods, analytical and algorithmic approaches to options VaR, non-parametric density est…

Business Risk Management handbook

The aim of this book is to provide a practice-oriented overview of risk management issues, with particular reference to approaches which may be adopted in identifying and measuring risks, and, therefore, how action to address those risks may be prioritised. As will become clear from the following chapters, a cornerstone of this book is that risk management is a significant tool in enhancing…

International mergers & acquisitions

Howest is a dynamic university of applied sciences, focused on innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. Our core values “serve – empower – care” stimulate an open, pluralistic and international outlook on education, research and service to society. Howest is a member of Ghent University Association, which provides high-quality higher education to ab…

Environmental Management Accounting for Cleaner Production

Several current global trends are causing cleaner production to grow in relevance and importance. Of especial significance are the inexorable rises in the price of energy and raw materials in the global marketplaces as well as the ever-increasing pressures being brought to bear by international buyers and investors alike looking for greater and greater efficiency along supp…

STRATEGIES FOR RISK MANAGEMENT IN HIGH DENSITY HOUSING

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Enterprise-Wide Risk Management

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The Crux Of Risk Management In Outdoor Programs – Minimising The Possibilit…

Risk management has become a much- discussed topic in the outdoor education literature in recent years, and a number of approaches to it have been proposed. When I started my career in outdoor education the term risk management had not yet entered the vocabulary. We did, though, talk about safety planning and its prime aim was the protection of program participants from harm. The term ‘risk m…

Projects Management in Reality: Lessons from Government Projects

This article presents some practical insights and challenges encountered during the implementation of major IT projects in the government sector in Arab countries. The primary purpose of this article is to point out the identified pitfalls to the existing body of knowledge from a practitioner’s standpoint, as many of the articles published in this regard are published by vendors, consultants,…

Integrated Enterprise Risk Management: From Process to Best Practice

There are strong motivating factors for increased awareness and action with regard to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Effective ERM policies and practices are lauded to increase stakeholder confidence, competitive advantage and ultimately an organization’s long-term viability. However previous studies suggest that the concept is poorly understood in practice and organizations are failin…

The Risk Management Function in the Financial Sector-

Title: The Risk Management Function in the Financial Sector - How Independent are Chief Risk Officers in Swedish Banks? Seminar date: 2012.05.30 Course: Master thesis in business administration, 30 University Credit Points (30 ECTS). Authors: Maria Helmersson, Patricia Pålsson Advisor/s: Håkan Jankensgård Five key words: Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Chief Risk Officer (CRO), Ri…

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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The Owner's Role in Project Risk Management

The primary objective of this report is to provide DOE project directors with a basic understanding of both the risk management role of an owner’s representative member of a project management team and the knowledge needed for effective oversight of risk management activities that are delegated to contractors. The report also discusses the roles and responsibilities of senior managers and pro…

THE YOUNG MOTHER or Management of Children in Regard to Health

There is a prejudice abroad, to some extent, against agitating the questions—"What shall we eat? What shall we drink? and Wherewithal shall we be clothed?"—not so much because the Scriptures have charged us not to be over "anxious" on the subject, as because those who pay the least attention to what they eat and drink, are supposed to be, after all, the most healthy. It is not difficult t…

Introduction to Risk Management

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Risk Management and Public Plan Retirement Systems

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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN THE CURRENT ECONO…

The current management is not possible without strategic thinking. Strategic management is a mean of modern management, focused on changes and amendments to be made in the organization and within its interactions with the environment in which it operates. There are a lot of benefits of practicing strategic management. Scale studies conducted on this subject showed that companies which apply …

Do risk management, internal control and corporate reputation positively impa…

Corporate governance has grown in importance due to the poor financial state of affairs of many companies in the past decade. Good corporate governance is perceived to increase firm value because it may help to reduce agency problems and build investors‘ confidence. Moreover, it is perceived that good corporate governance not only reduces the risk of fraud and corporate collapse, but also cre…

Basel II - Integrated Risk Management Solution

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ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

This text has taken almost two years to put together and the concept of enterprise risk management (ERM) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) goes back even further with the inception of the Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research at the University of Connecticut in 2008. While the idea for the text was originated by the work done at the Goldenson Center—the development of ERM for sm…

Management, Strategic Management Theories and the Linkage with Organizational…

The main objective of this paper is to review the evolution of management theory, overview of strategic management theory and its linkage with the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm’s competitive advantage. A review of the relevant literature was conducted and a connection between management theory, strategic management theory and competitive advantage from the RBV of the firm was iden…

Safety Management and Safety Culture The Long, Hard and Winding Road

Safety seems so easy – just make sure people don’t get hurt. In practice it is a lot harder to achieve a safe organisation that is capable of sustained safe performance in the face of significant hazards. This paper will examine the role of systematic management systems in helping to ensure that organisations become safe and stay that way. The possession of a management system, no matter ho…

Premises management Handbook and log book

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Theory and Practice of Model Risk Management

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The ANZ Risk Management Framework

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