Purpose – This paper aims to develop an appropriate earthquake disaster management system for Iranian schools with a main focus on non-structural problems of schools during disasters. Design/methodology/approach – A framework is proposed for disaster management planning regarding earthquakes in three phases: before, during, and after an earthquake. A detailed description of the proposed managem...

In this paper we propose a novel approach for the systematic assessment and analysis of IT related risks in organisations and projects. The approach is model-driven using an enterprise architecture as the basis for the security management process. Using an enterprise architecture it is possible to provide an integrated description of an organisation’s structure, processes and its underlying IT ...

Ting and Comings [1] described how to use the Information Assurance (IA) Object Measurement (OM®) metric as a tool to measure the monitoring step (Step 6) described in the United States (U.S.) National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF)1 [2]. This chapter expands the applicability of the IA OM® metric and shows how it may be used as an enterprise-wide...

Corporate governance of banks is one of the most important structures required by banks to maintain the health and stability of banks, which can play an important role in managing banks' risk. This paper examines the effect of corporate governance on liquidity risk management, credit risk management, and total bank risk management. We used board structure effectiveness, transparency, and respon...

In this paper, we argue that a distinction exists between risk measures and decision principles. Though both are functionals assigning a real number to a random variable, we think there is a hierarchy between the two concepts. Risk measures operate on the first “level”, quantifying the risk in the situation under consideration, while decision principles operate on the second “level”, often bein...

Using the industrial organization approach to the microeconomics of banking we model a large (Monti-Klein) bank which is risk neutral and faces credit uncertainty in its loan business. The impact of capital adequacy regulation and the effect of changes in risk on deposit and loan rates are analyzed. We then show that capital adequacy regulation induces the bank to behave as if it were risk aver...

this study focused on examining the management strategies of perceived risk associated with moringa products by consumers in ilorin metropolis with view to rank the perceived risk associated with moringa product; assess the different strategies employed by consumers to manage or cope with the risk and to examine socio-economic determinants of consumers’ consumption behaviour in relation to the ...