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Description of  Risk Management: Insights from Different Settings (Risk, Governance and Society, 20)

This volume offers new, convincing empirical evidence on topical risk- and risk management-related issues in diverse settings, using an interdisciplinary approach. The authors advance compelling arguments, firmly anchored to well-accepted theoretical frameworks, while adopting either qualitative or quantitative research methodologies. The book presents interviews and surveys with risk managers to gather insights on risk management and risk disclosure in practice. Additionally, the book collects and analyzes information contained in public reports to capture risk disclosure and perceptions on risk management impacts on companies internal organization. It sheds light on financial and market values to understand the effect of risk management on actual and perceived firms performance, respectively. Further, it examines the impacts of risk and risk management on society and the economy. Read more