Risk Management

Risk Management
Author: Céline Bérard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2018-01-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786301652

Risk management practices are growing both in number and complexity in businesses, notably driven by new regulatory standards that feature risk management at their core. Although large businesses are more likely to adopt a formal, holistic approach to risk management, the stakes are just as high for SMEs. Risk management in SMEs can contribute to a certain organizational, entrepreneurial and partnership dynamic which constitutes a real opportunity to evolve practices and improve performance. This book offers varied responses to this question by combining conceptual approaches, empirical illustrations and the associated managerial implications.

Risk Management

Risk Management
Author: Cristina Florio
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030883744

This volume offers new, convincing empirical evidence on topical risk- and risk management-related issues in diverse settings, using an interdisciplinary approach. The authors advance compelling arguments, firmly anchored to well-accepted theoretical frameworks, while adopting either qualitative or quantitative research methodologies. The book presents interviews and surveys with risk managers to gather insights on risk management and risk disclosure in practice. Additionally, the book collects and analyzes information contained in public reports to capture risk disclosure and perceptions on risk management impacts on companies’ internal organization. It sheds light on financial and market values to understand the effect of risk management on actual and perceived firm’s performance, respectively. Further, it examines the impacts of risk and risk management on society and the economy. The book improves awareness and advances knowledge on the complex and changeable risk and risk management fields of study. It interweaves among topical, up-to-date issues, peculiar, under-investigated contexts, and differentiated, complementary viewpoints on the same themes. Therefore, the book is a must-read for scholars and researchers, as well as practitioners and policy makers, interested in a better understanding of risk and risk management studies in different fields.

Supply Chain Risk

Supply Chain Risk
Author: George A. Zsidisin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2008-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387799346

Risk is of fundamental importance in this era of the global economy. Supply chains must into account the uncertainty of demand. Moreover, the risk of uncertain demand can cut two ways: (1) there is the risk that unexpected demand will not be met on time, and the reverse problem (2) the risk that demand is over estimated and excessive inventory costs are incurred. There are other risks in unreliable vendors, delayed shipments, natural disasters, etc. In short, there are a host of strategic, tactical and operational risks to business supply chains. Supply Chain Risk: A Handbook of Assessment, Management, and Performance will focus on how to assess, evaluate, and control these various risks.

Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management in Small and Medium-Sized Tourism Enterprises

Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management in Small and Medium-Sized Tourism Enterprises
Author: Toubes, Diego R.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799869989

Tourism destinations are traditionally dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises that provide a wide range of products to tourists such as accommodation, travel services, transportation, recreation and entertainment, and food and beverage services. New knowledge and global risks have emerged, and small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMTEs) are now highly vulnerable. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the whole world and caused a change in the tourism paradigm. Many SMTEs around the world have been severely affected by the need to completely shut down their activities for months, and expectations for recovery in the medium term are not optimistic. SMTEs do not have the capacity and increased resources—financial, human, operational—of large companies to prepare for crisis contingencies (planning) and respond to the challenges they face. They simply do not have the resources or knowledge for risk analysis and the creation of crisis teams or plans. This is an area of growing importance and concern, both in the public and private sectors, where specific research and more in-depth knowledge are needed. Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management in Small and Medium-Sized Tourism Enterprises connects research in the field of crisis management with the risks affecting small and medium-sized tourism enterprises. The book presents prevailing research on SME-related planning, response, and recovery during crisis situations, further propelling much-needed literature on these challenges in today’s tourism industry. The chapters cover important topics such as terrorism threats, disaster management, resilient strategies, pandemic management, and risk analysis. The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals working in the tourism and hospitality industries, restaurateurs, travel agencies, hotel executives, directors, managers, crisis and risk planners, policymakers, government officials, researchers, and academicians who are interested in the threats to tourism businesses and how small and medium-sized enterprises can manage and navigate these risks.

Perception of Risk Management in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Perception of Risk Management in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Author: Qays Sbaih
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3668946183

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 90%, Birzeit University, course: MBA, language: English, abstract: This article provides an empirical evidence of risk and risk management in SMEs in Palestine and the effect of RM on its performance using several method for assessing risk, RM and performance for (N=330) SMEs participant in Ramallah. Most of SMEs in Palestine do not have a written and formal risk management plan. They mostly concern about Financial and Strategic risks, while Hazard and operational are the least concerned respectively. Performance in SMEs considered medium according to Performance Comparison Approach. SMEs with highest degree of written risk management plan have better performance. There is a positive correlation between the prospective of the owner/ manager of risk analysis and SMEs’ performance. Strategic and hazard risk analysis is positively associated with performance. The high level of risk mitigation the more SMEs tend to have better performance.

Managing Business Risk

Managing Business Risk
Author: Jonathan Reuvid
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780749442286

Ensuring business continuity through the effective management of risks has become a boardroom preoccupation. This book highlights the key areas of concern and identifies best practice in risk management for companies large and small.

Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1687
Release: 2020-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 179981761X

Smaller companies are abundant in the business realm and outnumber large companies by a wide margin. To maintain a competitive edge against other businesses, companies must ensure the most effective strategies and procedures are in place. This is particularly critical in smaller business environments that have fewer resources. Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines the strategies and concepts that will assist small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve competitiveness. It also explores the latest advances and developments for creating a system of shared values and beliefs in small business environments. Highlighting a range of topics such as entrepreneurship, innovative behavior, and organizational sustainability, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, business managers, executives, managing directors, academicians, business professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students.

Open Innovation And Knowledge Management In Small And Medium Enterprises

Open Innovation And Knowledge Management In Small And Medium Enterprises
Author: Susanne Durst
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9813233605

The book studies the interplay between open innovation and knowledge management issues in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With the proliferation of the open innovation paradigm and against the backdrop of increasing external knowledge transfer activities, knowledge management is more important than ever for innovation and firm performance of any type of organization. In fact, knowledge management is no longer a pure intra-organizational activity but constitutes a vital interface function between the organization and its external partners/stakeholders.Throughout the book, readers will obtain both a broad overview of the two main concepts namely open innovation and knowledge management and its interplay. In addition, research will be presented which will help the readers to develop and/or expand their understanding of the phenomenon. This broad approach can also support in broadening the mindset regarding the topic under investigation and its application. Thereby, this book will primarily focus on SMEs and their approach with respect to the interplay in question.In order to achieve the above-mentioned aim, the book consists of ten chapters that are assigned to three parts. Part 1 introduces to the main concepts, namely, SMEs, Open Innovation, Knowledge Management, and the interplay between open innovation and knowledge management in SMEs. This is followed by Part 2, which provides empirical research insights into the phenomenon of interest. The book concludes with Part 3 which addresses promising future avenues regarding the study of open innovation and knowledge management in SMEs. All the chapters are written by leading international researchers in the respective fields, which makes the book a unique piece of work.

Risk Management in Small-medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Risk Management in Small-medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Author: Candice Lim
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3640595068

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: A14, University of Wolverhampton, language: English, abstract: This paper is proposing to research the influence of risk management on the financial performance of small-medium-sized enterprise (SME) in West Midlands, UK. SMEs expose many risks in their ordinary course of business, such as interest rate risk and foreign exchange risk, natural disasters and so on, that could minimize their profit by increasing their financial loss. This paper shows that how could SMEs reduce its financial loss from risk exposure by having proper risk management tools in place, by interviewing the SMEs' risk managers. The interview generally focuses on the risk management process in SMEs accompany with their annual spending on it, and examines how these risk managements in company are used to overcome the risks. In addition, different perspectives on the impacts of the risk management to company's financial performance, research methodology, research limitations, and research timescale are discussed and presented.