the increasing number of hazards related to water shortage in different parts of the world and the probability of socio-economic crisis, social stresses and even war occurrence as water shortage impacts; shows that water supply challenges will be more important and widespread than energy supply challenges in future decades. during the time, with population growth, resource demand increase and p...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires companies it regulates to include disclosures about the board’s role in risk oversight annual proxy statement shareholders. SEC does not mandate specific content or actions that boards should perform as part of their responsibilities, leaving nature activities extent those discretion reporting entity. This study examines whether these c...

background: research project risks are uncertain contingent events or situations that, if transpire, will have positive or negative effects on objectives of a project. the management of health and safety at work (mhsw) regulations 1999 require all employers and the self-employed persons to assess the risks from their work on anyone who may be affected by their activities. risk assessment is the...

We are surrounded by ever more dependable systems, such us driving assistance systems from the automotive domain or life-supporting systems from the medical domain. Due to their increasing complexity, not only the development of but also the quality assurance for such systems are becoming increasingly difficult. They may cause various degrees of harm to their environment. Hence, in order to red...

Scott D. King,1 Changyeol Lee,1 Peter E. van Keken,2 Wei Leng,3 Shijie Zhong,3 Eh Tan,4 Nicola Tosi5,6 and Masanori C. Kameyama7 1Department of Geosciences,Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Geological Sciences,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 3Department of Physics,University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA 4Seismological Laboratory,...

GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) is an umbrella acronym covering the three disciplines of governance, risk management and compliance. The main challenge behind this concept is the integration of these three areas, generally dealt with in silos. At the IT level (IT GRC), some research works have been proposed towards integration. However, the sources used for the construction of the resulti...

Prior research has shown that people have a tendency to be overly optimistic about future events (i.e., optimism bias) in a variety of settings. In this study, we suggest that optimism bias has significant implications for IT project risk management, as it may cause people to become overly optimistic that they can easily manage project risks. Drawing upon construal level theory (CLT), we invest...