Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide maintenance personnel with a methodology for using masked field reliability data to determine the probability of each subassembly failure. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares an iterative maximum likelihood estimation method and...

The introduction of television (TV) home shopping and other non‐store shopping formats is one way by which retailers have tried to meet the evolving needs of consumers. Using risk perception as the theoretical framework, the objective of this study was to categorize TV home shoppers as high or...

Purpose – Aims to increase our understanding of the role of intangibles in credit risk analysis and of the main factors which enable or disable the impact of intellectual capital (IC) reports. Design/methodology/approach – Discusses recent findings from the European Union‐funded...

Purpose This paper aims to find a suitable structure for a practitioner's handbook that addresses the structural elements of the business continuity (BC) practice. Design/methodology/approach The case study using the mixed method, quantitative with a questionnaire and conceptual research...

As is the case for many developing economies, internationally published research on information systems (IS) practice in Kuwait is in short supply. The few reports of Kuwaiti IS/information technology (IT) practice highlighted in studies of Middle Eastern or Arab computing, have also largely...

Purpose – In partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, the RAHS Program Office (RPO) of the National Security Coordination Secretariat at the Prime Minister's Office in Singapore has undertaken the innovative approach of the Searchlight function to systematically make sense of the current...

The author takes mining as his paradigm and analyses the approach to risk management showing that financial and fuzzy factors should be taken into account and, if handled effectively, can produce a very useful operational risk analysis.

Purpose This study aims to argue that in the case of quantitative security risk assessment, individuals do not estimate probabilities as a likelihood measure of event occurrence. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the most commonly used quantitative assessment approach, the annualized...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to describe an innovative practice that has implication for new product developers within and outside the pharmaceutical industry. Design/methodology/approach – The case describes an approach to managing the risk inherent in marketing drugs. The...

Purpose – This paper aims to acquaint managers with a little known mergers and acquisitions (M&A) diagnostic tool that made its debut in the book Deals from Hell – M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes (NY: Wiley, 2005) by Robert Bruner. Design/methodology/approach – This paper offers a...