Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the politi-cal capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that...

This book discusses the essence, concepts, techniques, and applications of business intelligence. It also explores different aspects of crisis management, knowledge management and knowledge sciences, the applications of business intelligence in contingencies and crises, environmental issues and...

In modern conditions standard models of market coordination and price control at which each enterprise is a separate and independent production unit, are economically inexpedient. The author considers the objective necessity of the establishment of the parity relations between business and the...

Recent financial and economic crisis in Asia and its management have produced dismal outcomes, economically, politically and socially, in many respects in several crisis economies. The paper focuses on a critical analysis of this crisis' diagnostics, prescriptions and outcomes, and discusses...

Construction crisis management research is in an exploratory state where contemplated questions are of more value than hasty answers. For this reason, this paper is more concerned with theory formulation than theory testing. More specifically, it derives a grounded theory of construction crisis...

A construction crisis stimulates a network of communications within its host organization, the structure of which influences crisis management efficiency. It does so by determining the effectiveness of information transfer between project participants, and thereby the level of uncertainty,...

This article presents a conceptual basis for developing a corporate strategy to respond to a financial crisis, and an empirical examination of strategic moves undertaken by a number of large Latin American (Mexican) firms during the crisis and subsequent recession. A framework for thinking about...

Developments during the global financial crisis have highlighted the importance of differentiating across financial systems and institutions. Assessments of financial stability have increasingly considered the characteristics of individual banks within a financial system, as well as those with...

This note overviews macroprudential policy options that have been proposed to address the systemic risks experienced during the recent financial crisis. It contributes to the policy debate by providing a taxonomy of macroprudential policies in terms of the specific negative externalities in the...