Decision theory: general

This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings.

Impending technological advances will widen an adversary's attack plane over the next decade.

This book comprises chapters authored by experts who are professors and researchers in internationally recognized universities and research institutions.

This book gives an overview of the most important theories on Corporate Governance, investigating the myth and the reality of it.

Large projects are defining moments for companies and countries.

Blockchain Driven Supply Chains and Enterprise Information Systems examines initiatives for blockchain implementation in supply chain management and the integration of blockchain technology with existing enterprise management applications.

Effective risk management is a crucial part of the success of any organization.

How might one determine if a financial institution is taking risk in a balanced and productive manner?

This book guides human resource managers and professionals on how to manage organizations and its employees through bankruptcy and organizational change.

Most university undergraduate and graduate audit classes are geared towards educating prospective auditors but do not provide education for those who will be audit clients and subjected to audits.

This book contains the papers presented at the XXX International Congress INGEGRAF, "e;Digital Engineering, its application in Research, Development and Innovation"e;, held on 24-25 June 2021 in Valencia, Spain.

This book covers advanced reliability and maintainability knowledge as applied to recent engineering problems.

This book aims to clarify the priorities of the Sendai Framework for the DRR 2015 - 2030, through gathering recent contributions addressing the different ways researchers define, measure, reduce, and manage risk in the challenge of the DRR.

This book provides a holistic and practical approach to managing supply chains risks and presents a new framework model for sustainable optimization of risk management.

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This book introduces readers to the key provisions of the URRAN-based technical asset management system - a methodology for managing resources and risks by analyzing and ensuring the required levels of reliability and safety in Russia's railway transport facilities.

This book provides insight into domino effects in industrial chemical sites and process industries.

We as humans are prone to a variety of wired-in cognitive mistakes in the way we interpret and react to risk-related information.

This volume offers new, convincing empirical evidence on topical risk- and risk management-related issues in diverse settings, using an interdisciplinary approach.

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.

This textbook provides the tools for a modern post-graduate introductory course on system reliability theory.

This book proposes a new approach to dynamic and online risk assessment of automated and autonomous marine systems, taking into account different environmental and operational conditions.

Fixed income investments have been a topic of broad interest, in particular for institutional investors such as insurance companies and pensions schemes.

This book directs the engineering manager or the undergraduate student preparing to become an engineering manager, who is or will become actively engaged in the management of economic-risk trade-off decisions for engineering investments within an organizational system.

This book presents a theoretical and empirical framework to interpret the possible configurations of the integration between performance management and risk management systems as part of management control systems.

As drivers of climate action enter the fourth decade of what has become a multi-stage race, Net Zero has emerged as the dominant organizing principle.

This book explores issues related to green and sustainable finance which aims at the transformation of economies into a new, more sustainable model.

This book deals with risk management and the organisation of banking in Swedish savings banks alongside the development in other European countries.

Since the Global Financial Crisis,  the structure of financial markets has undergone a dramatic shift.

Addressing the urgency of radical decarbonization as a mitigative response to climate risk, this book explores how business can respond to the challenges of climate risk, through various transformational processes.

This book provides in-depth guidance on how to use multi-criteria decision analysis methods for risk assessment and risk management.

Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management,  this book has one principal aim.

Water risks, including the lack of access to fresh water for personal and industrial use, droughts, floods, and water contamination, are problems that are not new, yet, they are amplifying in the face of climate change, population growth, and rapid economic development.

This book is for people who want to know what to do with the money they save: so that it's there when they need it - to buy a home, pay for college, etc.

This book contributes to the multidisciplinary debate about social-ecological systems (SES) within the perspective of rethinking the nature of interaction between these systems, especially in the Anthropocene Era.

This textbook deals with engineering, science, technical, legal, financial, ICT, logistics and people management topics necessary for managing engineered assets such as all man-made tools, gadgets, buildings, equipment, machines, infrastructure, large-scale physical and industrial facilities and systems which pervade all sectors of industry.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 18th International Probabilistic Workshop (IPW), which was held in Guimaraes, Portugal in May 2021.

This book deals with the debated relationship between the characteristics of national supervision and manipulative practices in banks' annual reports, with a specific focus on income smoothing.

This volume continues to highlight the latest research contributions presented at the annual Wroclaw conference in Finance (Poland), covering a wide range of topics in the field.

Many emerging market countries are bank-based economies and are increasingly affected by geopolitical risks, U.

The book explains the impact of bank business models on company business models by discussing the relationship among banks decision-making processes, sustainable values creation in company business models, and ESG risk.

This book aims to provide a collection of early ideas regarding the results of applying risk and resilience tools and strategies to COVID-19.

This is a different kind of book on project management.

This book reviews the latest methods of sustainable investing and financial profit making and describes how ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) analysis can identify future business opportunities and manage risk to achieve abnormal returns.

Economic recessions, social networks, environmental damage in several large countries (eg.

This book focuses on the impact of high-frequency data in forecasting market volatility and options price.

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to supply chain resilience, covering management, modeling and technology perspectives.

This book addresses reliability, maintenance, risk, and safety issues of industrial systems with applications of the latest decision-making techniques.

This book chronicles airline revenue management from its early origins to the last frontier.

This book explains the theoretical structure of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and focuses on the application of PSO to portfolio optimization problems.