The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may...

You're in charge of IT, facilities, or core operations for your organization when a hurricane or a fast-moving wildfire hits. What do you do? Simple. You follow your business continuity/disaster recovery plan. If you've prepared in advance, your operation or your company can continue to conduct...

Framing the Risk Challenge -- Understanding the Hidden Risk of Dynamic Complexity -- Understanding the Nature of Risk -- Human Interaction and Perception of Risk -- Risk Evolves as Experience Evolves -- Why the Risk Comes as a Surprise -- Systemic and Systematic Risk -- How Risk is Currently...

Merkmale und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung -- Gesellschaftliche Bedingungen eines adäquaten Katastrophenmanagement -- Versuch einer mikroökonomischen Betrachtung von Katastrophen -- Betriebswirtschaftliches Katastrophenmanagement -- Brandkatastrophe in der Lüneburger Heide 1975 -- Flutkatastrophe...

Grundlegung -- Die Kreditbeziehung der Banken zum Schuldner und ihre Rolle in der Unternehmenskrise -- Das Hypothesensystem zum strategischen Verhalten von Banken in der Schuldnerkrise auf Grundlage theoretischer Analysen -- Empirische Untersuchungen zu den Bankstrategien in der...

Einführung -- Allgemeiner Teil -- Risikomanagement im Einkauf -- Instrumente des Einkaufs in der strategischen Krise -- Instrumente des Einkaufs in der Ertragskrise -- Instrumente des Einkaufs in der Liquiditätskrise -- Projekttechniken -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

Companies face a variety of risks resulting from cost reduction strategies, rationalization measures, global sourcing, and outsourcing activities. Due to the large number of actors involved, extremely close ties emerge, which significantly increase supply chains’ vulnerability to disruptions -...

Aspekte von Krisenmanagement in der Literatur -- Krisenlebenszyklus -- Methode zur Krisenbewältigung -- Krisenorganisation -- Risikovorsorge und -vermeidung -- Fallstudie über eine Krise -- Praktische Krisenbewältigung -- Psychologische Aspekte einer Krise -- Durch Verhandlung die Einigung...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of failure in business, management and consulting. It features contributions by experts from diverse fields, who share unique insights from their real-life experiences. Readers will find perspectives from leadership, project management, change...

This book contributes to the discussion on wisdom in management, leadership and strategy by developing a unique theoretical approach. Integrating rational-analytical, intuitive and philosophical dimensions of wise decision-making, it advocates a broadly Platonic-Socratic view on wisdom. Applying...