Decision theory: general

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.

The market is like the sea: it gives, and it takes away.

Use of quantitative data, especially in financial markets, may provide rapid results due to the ease-of-use and availability of fast computational software, but this book advises caution and helps to understand and avoid potential pitfalls.

This book explores the genesis of ransomware and how the parallel emergence of encryption technologies has elevated ransomware to become the most prodigious cyber threat that enterprises are confronting.

Risk is the main source of uncertainty for investors, debtholders, corporate managers and other stakeholders.

Effective financial planning for executives and entrepreneurs is complex, dense, and impossible to reduce to a single, easy-to-understand formula.

This advanced undergraduate/graduate textbook teaches students in finance and economics how to use R to analyse financial data and implement financial models.

The presence of sound corporate governance in a financial institution is important in maintaining the confidence of both the market and the public.

For many academics, students, and professionals, the field of commodities is a black box.

This book discusses digital risk governance in a global context and provides practical solutions for sound digital policy.

This book provides a theoretical basis for understanding the phenomenon of renegotiations in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

This book covers topics such as digitalization of production, operations, logistics and supply chains leading to new requirements for human capabilities and collaboration.

This book helps readers understand the main issues, challenges, strategies, and solution methods in Aggregate Planning (AP), an important part of Supply Chain Management.

Despite growing discussions on the relationship between sustainability and finance, so far little attention has been given to the relation linking sustainability-related risks and financial risks.

Addressing a need for innovative solutions to challenges facing organisations today, this book explores the concept of Knowledge Risk Management (KRM), outlining how this new approach can be implemented in the banking sector.

This book presents a consistent and complete framework for studying the risk management of a pension fund.

This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from diverse fields including computer science, engineering, archival science, law, business, psychology, economics, medicine and more to discuss the trade-offs between different "e;layers"e; in designing the use of blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for social trust, trust in data and records, and trust in systems.

Exploring the negative social impact of cyber-attacks, this book takes a closer look at the challenges faced by both the public and private sectors of the financial industry.

Today, early-stage investors and entrepreneurs find themselves in a dilemma in which they must choose between profit and impact; between traditional, for-profit-only models on the one hand, and multiple-bottom-line structures with a positive social or environmental impact on the other.

COVID-19 has spread around the world, causing tremendous structural change, and severely affecting global supply chains and financial operations.

This first book on Maritime Informatics describes the potential for Maritime Informatics to enhance the shipping industry.