Risk management: how to assess, transfer and communicate critical risks

The increasingly risky environment in which companies operate is characterized by a rising number of risk components, factors, sources, and drivers. The identification, evaluation, and management of these risks require the capabilityto coordinate various skills within a company and in upstream and downstream relationships. This handbook provides an integrated approach to the assessment, transfer, and communication of critical risks and highlights emerging methodologies that can help to protect businesses from adverse events and their effects. It explains how different risk management perspectives should be combined, and in particular how the corporate governance vision should be integrated with the perspectives of operations management, financial management, and business continuity management. In this sense the handbook provides concrete directions on how to develop a risk management team and culture, taking into accountbusiness challenges and employing appropriate managerial tools. INDICE: Preface.- Part I Reference Theories.- Chapter 1 From Social and Natural Science Comes a Historical Overview on the Concepts of Uncertainty and Risk.- Chapter 2 Governance and Risk Management.- Chapter 3 Risk Management Perspectives.- Part II Risk Assessment: Approaches, Techniques and Good Practices.- Chapter 4 The Need for an Enterprise-Wide Approach to Risk Management.- Chapter 5 Risk Identification.- Chapter 6 Risk Analysis.- Part III Risk Treatment: Approaches, Techniques and Good Practices.- Chapter 7 Risk Treatment.- Part IV Supply Chain Risk Management and Business Continuity.- Chapter 8 Operational Risk and Supply Chain Risk Management.

• ISBN: 978-88-470-2530-1
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés