This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the legal arrangement of the corporation, the instruments and institutions through which capital can be raised, the management of the flow of funds through the individual firm, and the methods of dividing the risks and returns among the various contributors of funds.
In response to the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks have used all available instruments in their monetary policy tool-kit to avoid financial market disruptions and a collapse in real economic activities.
This edited collection comprehensively addresses the widespread regulatory challenges uncovered and changes introduced in financial markets following the 2007-2008 crisis, suggesting strategies by which financial institutions can comply with stringent new regulations and adapt to the pressures of close supervision while responsibly managing risk.
With contributions presented during the Second International Risk Management Conference, this first volume addresses important areas of risk management from a variety of angles and perspectives.
Simple but powerful strategies for increasing your success by improving your thinkingThe 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking.
A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or VaR--reduces these risks to a single number, creating a false sense of security among risk managers, executives, and regulators.
Sustainability is an increasingly urgent and important factor in logistics and supply chain management, impacting the whole supply chain lifecycle from product design and development, to supplier management, packaging, transportation, warehousing and distribution.
Implement practical solutions in business continuity management and organizational resilience guided by international best practice from ISO 22301:2019.
Volume 2 of Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Case Study Collection contains new case studies tackling Supply Chain and Procurement issues, aiming to provide solutions affecting a range of different businesses.
Financial markets play a critical role in climate finance as they are a major source of funding for many of the projects and initiatives aimed at addressing climate change.
In diesem essential wird anhand von praktischen Beispielen erläutert, wie die Anlagenproduktivität von produzierenden Unternehmen durch Einführung des OEE-Managements gesteigert werden kann.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Design and Solutions for Risk and Security targets readers to understand, learn, define problems, and architect AI projects.
Cybersecurity refers to the set of technologies, practices, and strategies designed to protect computer systems, networks, devices, and data from unauthorized access, theft, damage, disruption, or misuse.
Die zunehmende Relevanz von ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) in der finanzwirtschaftlichen Forschung und Praxis wird angetrieben durch Wesentlichkeit, Investorennachfrage und Regulatorik.
Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers.
This book presents cutting-edge findings that draw on the use of AI, the Industrial Internet of Things, Blockchain, and Co-Analytics for the development of Circular Economy (CE) models to make organizational activities more sustainable.
The International Handbook of Shipping Finance is a one-stop resource, offering comprehensive reference to theory and practice in the area of shipping finance.
Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector, widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have increasingly become the focus of public attention.
Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology.
This book develops the notion that companies can succeed on the basis of risk management, much as companies compete on efficiency, costs, labor, location, and other dimensions.
Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, financial collapses, and other crisis situations have occupied public attention to an unprecedented degree in recent years.
This book is a joint endeavour of the three partner universities to develop a book with in-depth and state-of-art analysis for the academic community of East Asia and the world.
This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences (LISS 2020), which is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in July 25-28 2020.
This book provides basics and selected advanced insights on how to generate reliability, safety and resilience within (socio) technical system developments.
Uncertain computation is a system of computation and reasoning in which the objects of computation are not values of variables but restrictions on values of variables.
The book examines the trends of premium collection and investment portfolio of LICI and selected private life insurers in India in order to compare their performances.
This book aims to stay one step beyond the innovations of information and communication technologies and smart healthcare management and provides an overview of the risks smart healthcare management could help to alleviate, and those risks it would create or amplify.
This book focuses on discussing the issues of rating scheme design and risk aggregation of risk matrix, which is a popular risk assessment tool in many fields.
