Winning with risk management /

"This book develops the notion that companies can succeed on the basis of risk management, much as companies compete on efficiency, costs, labor, location, and other dimensions. The reality of risk and how it impacts companies is that it is much more definite, often catastrophic and looks more...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Russell, 1972-
Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Covent Garden, London : World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2013.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789814383899
9814383899
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to risk
  • 2. Overview of risk decisions
  • 3. Dealing with shocks
  • large scale risks impacting markets and industries
  • 4. Operations pose embedded risks to the enterprise
  • 5. Reliance on technology increases operational risk
  • often it is not obvious
  • 6. Dealing with contagion and persistence in risks
  • 7. Risk management as a corporate competency
  • 8. Protecting the enterprise from itself
  • learning from history, again
  • 9. Forming an organization that competes on risk: organizational implications
  • 10. Developing a culture for sound risk management
  • 11. Toyota: dealing with crisis in a major (foreign) market
  • 12. Communicating risk information in the enterprise
  • 13. Benefits of competing on risk.