As can be seen e.g. by the cutting edge section of RISK Magazine, research papers mainly focus on market risk, credit risk, and—with a little less attention—operational risk. Although these risk types are very important for financial institutions, the true landscape of risk is much more complex and far from being well explored and understood. There is a variety of “other” risks looming on the h...

A novel explanation of judgments by experts about the likely outcome of events is presented. It is proposed that these judgments are derived from a combination of the likelihood of every known risk factor that could affect the outcome of the uncertain event, each weighted by the chance recalling that risk. To test this proposal, an ACT-R model was developed in a study of Royal Navy officers. Ea...

Despite improvements in software engineering processes and tools, concrete preventative and analytical software quality assurance activities are still typically manually triggered and determined, resulting in missed or untimely quality opportunities and increased project overhead. Quality goals, when defined, lack holistic environmental support for automated performance measurement and governan...

Construction industry is highly risk prone, with complex and dynamic project environments creating an atmosphere of high uncertainty and risk. The industry is vulnerable to various technical, sociopolitical and business risks. The track record to cope with these risks has not been very good in construction industry. As a result, the people working in the industry bear various failures, such as,...

Information security risks threaten the ability of organizations of reaching their operational and strategic goals. Increasing diversification of the information security landscapes makes addressing all risks a challenging task. Information security standards have positioned themselves as generic solutions to tackle a broad range of risks and try to guide security managers in their endeavors. H...

The research reported in this paper aimed to identify and explore potential cultural, operational, managerial, organisational and technical barriers and risks that can affect successful long-term exploitation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in Chinese SOEs. The study adopted a mixed-methods research design, which consisted of a questionnaire survey and a follow-up multiple case st...

This article addresses the dynamics of Brazilian food control practices, highlighting their special risk-related features and the types of intervention, as well as the recently adopted instruments to control risks related to the nutritional composition of food and their institutional repercussions. Food regulation in Brazil dates back to the First Republic. The practice has been remodeled over ...

Service enterprises have traditionally used organizational models from the manufacturing and industrial sectors, incorporating ideas such as hierarchy, task repetition, and standardization of procedures. These disciplined production systems tend to use humans more than machines in the production of services, 2 however, which we posit may lead to significant organizational problems. Consequently...

Risks related to information communication and technologies (ICTs) still occur in organizations. In spite of development of ICT risk management methodologies that have been published in numerous frameworks and/or standards to help organizations deal with ICT risks, it has still been questioned about whether or not its methodology has manifested success. This research identifies the current prof...

This paper interrogated the suitability of Mobile Technologies to facilitate e-commerce in Kenyan Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). The study proposed a theoretical model and empirically tested it using a sample selected using proportionate stratified sampling within welldefined geographic clusters. The study revealed that, while there is massive use of Mobile Internet Services (MIS), there i...