An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses several topics within the issue including developing an interest in materiality for the organizational research, workshops on materiality, and linking of materiality with the strategy practice agenda.

The last five years have witnessed a great momentum in the research into measures of financial risk. After many years of ad-hoc and non-consistent measures, now the problem is finally well formulated and some useful and very user-friendly solutions have been proposed. These new measures of risk...