... Geopolitical risk Institutionalization Risk management Geopolitics Uncertainty International business Risk The end of the Cold War may have led us to believe that the world was entering a period of fairly definitive peace. Companies have, thus, been able to develop their activities in a stable...

... not only to survive but also to thrive in an uncertain and volatile world. Te Wu can be contacted at: wut@montclair.edu © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Complexity Scenario planning Risk management Project management Volatility...

... and capabilities of established firms. The purpose of this paper is to seek to delve deeper into the cybersecurity and risk management needs of small firms and startups. Design/methodology/approach Extant literature and available tools are explored to develop a usable framework applicable to small firms...

... that entrepreneurs and managers attend to these potential problem areas in the early stages of designing their business models. In bringing awareness to innovation-related tripwires, the authors offer a risk-management “patch” for managers and entrepreneurs when developing their business models. Originality/value...

.... To deal with these interdependencies, the authors propose an original multi-step risk management framework. This framework considers the outreach as a critical dimension for risk assessment and offers a new risk response matrix to draw individual and collective mitigation activities for specific types...

... the firm's reputation to the charter of every Board committee and made “reputational judgment” an explicit factor in the evaluation and compensation of all senior executives, including the CEO. If what you measure gets done, what you pay for moves to the top of the to-do list. Public relations Risk...

... the same CFO until retirement. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Chief financial officer Family firms Non‐family manager Critical success factors Risk management Austria When family firms grow older and larger, they usually rely more on non‐family managers. Qualitative...

...Norman T. Sheehan Purpose This article integrates strategy mapping, risk management and management control into a risk‐based approach to strategy execution. It uses strategy mapping as a tool to visually depict the firm's strategy and then assess its risks. Based on this risk assessment...

... buyers post‐recession. The authors offer insights to help managers evaluate customer acquisition and retention recession. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Consumer behaviour Recession Risk management Customer retention Despite the US economy experiencing, on average...

.... Corporate strategy Risk management We live in an age of catastrophes. There is nothing particularly new about this. The human race has survived ice ages, huge meteorite impacts, earthquakes, 500‐foot tsunamis, the Black Plague, the Golden Horde, the Red Menace, and the Purple People Eaters...

..., regulations, and technology. Given this, the biggest challenge boards' face is to competently manage these opportunities and risks. Although boards can benefit from fully integrating risk management into the strategy formulation process, survey evidence shows most have not done so. Design/methodology...

... management function of the board is one area that is under the microscope. Traditionally, directors have looked at risk management as a five‐part problem: 1. Operational risks. These are tied to the operations of the company. Internal controls and working protocols are used to manage...

... compared to the lost contribution the company would have experienced had it tried to fix the problem through price discounting. Companies can adopt a variety of sound risk management strategies to help support more stable prices and encourage early product adoption. Some of these include performance...

... that today's strategic change initiatives should all consider their impact on holistically developed risk management strategies. Approach Hypotheses are explained, developed, and supported by a number of actual cases across several diverse industries. Case studies that illustrate both success...

... of “creative errors” and “tragic failures” might prove to be a successful off‐beat attempt at stimulating creativity and innovative behavior in enterprises. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Innovation Risk management Organizational culture Automotive industry Where specialists...