Managing Business Risk — A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Business

Reuvid, an economist, brings together managers, risk analysts, and other business specialists from across the globe to show directors and senior managers how to manage business risk. The 24 chapters (rearranged for this edition) explore risk topics for boardrooms, including risk appetite, asset integrity, the upside issues of risk management, the foundations of capital risk management, the liability of parent companies for subsidiaries' actions, and corporate governance; operational topics for risk managers, including risk-based security, the use of scenarios in preparing for uncertainty, financial risk, supply chain risk management, the use of software escrow to manage risk and new opportunities, and managing risk economically in organizations with limited resources based on application in the charity sector; risk issues in cyber-security, life sciences, the food industry, and distance learning, as well as with employees; and business risk in key emerging markets in Brazil, India, China, Russia, Thailand, and South-East Asia. Some chapters have been updated. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)