In der Unternehmensgeschichte wurde das Thema „Sicherheit“ bislang wenig systematisch bearbeitet. Der Band macht einen ersten Versuch, die Ansätze der Historischen Sicherheitsforschung auf Unternehmen anzuwenden und die historische Dynamik von „Sicherheit“ jenseits statischer...

Preface -- Introduction -- What is disruption? -- Sources of disruption -- Predicting disruption -- Managing disruption -- Self-disruption -- Insuring against disruption -- Re-examining disruption -- Future of disruption -- Notes -- Index

Many companies in USA and Western Europe are taking advantage of developments ininformation technology and outsourcing parts of the accounting process to vendors in otherparts of the world. Offshore outsourcing of accounting presents some unique risks, controlproblems and challenges. In this...

In financial groups enterprise risk management is becoming increasingly importantin controlling and managing the different independent legal entities in thegroup. The aim of this paper is to assess and relate risk concentration and joint defaultprobabilities of the group’s legal entities in...

This paper provides new UK evidence on the relationship between managerialincentives and firm risk using a hand-collected database of 3307 executive yearobservations (698 CEO years and 2609 other executive years). We find that therelation between pay performance sensitivity and firm risk...