Purpose – This article provides a brief review of current literature on ERP and its implementation in industries. To fully understand the ERP software key points, risks, benefits, critical success factors, implementation issues, and the fundamental on that are identified and reviewed. Some...

Purpose – Executives are poorly prepared for the next crisis. In order to be able to lead organizations through crises, executives need to have knowledge about the structures and processes they introduce with the goal of maintaining the organization's capacity for action....

Purpose – This paper takes a stakeholder analysis approach derived from a study in one domain and applies this to safety issues in an organization making food products. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a stakeholder analysis approach. Findings – This paper has demonstrates...

Purpose – Companies lose tolerance for risk in tough economic times. The level of risk inherent in new ideas prevents organizations from investing in big, bold innovations that could unlock valuable new sources of revenue and profit. This paper describes how to apply methods extracted from the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to warrant the success of applying information and communications technology (ICT) in e‐government projects, particularly in developing countries, through risk management and modeling of multi‐decision situation. This analytical approach would lead to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study on the risk and preparedness for emergency of a multinational company (MNC) based in Vietnam. This research can assist other MNCs to understand the risk they may face and formulate the necessary emergency preparation to do business in Vietnam....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between business risks and credit choices of 400 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi province in October 2007 in the Yangling district. More specifically, this paper investigates whether or not rural farm households in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how an organized framework for risk management called Risk Navigator SRM © can be practically applied to common risk management problems. Design/methodology/approach – The program makes complex risk principles easier to understand and...

Purpose – Risk orientated disclosure is a focal issue of corporate communication. Many provisions have been implemented in the USA and in Europe to promote transparency about risks faced by companies, especially by quoted ones. The increase of mandatory risk reporting applying to companies...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contrast the business risks of seeking to hide “questionable” corporate activities with the benefits of achieving high levels of corporate transparency. Design/methodology/approach – The paper summarises three well‐documented cases of corporate...