Purpose: Outsourcing transactions have been arisen and evolved in the last years and purchase managers want to know if a Failure Mode Effects and Analysis (FMEA) is an effective qualitative technique to analyze supply chain risks (SCR) in a proper way. The aim of this study is to address this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether investment in a quality system leads to process management. Do firms that have invested in documenting their processes in a quality system also manage their processes? Design/methodology/approach – The research question is...

‘Si vis pacem, para bellum’, or ‘if you want peace, prepare for war’, as the Roman adage says. By an up-to-date version, if you want enterprise security, prepare for risk management. This paper deals with one of the means of attaining a state of enterprise security primarily on the basis...