Risk Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Balancing between Trade and Risk

   Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Marjolein B. A. van Asselt, Esther Versluis, Ellen Vos

   The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation. This book brings together legal and social science research on risk...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. OHS Electronic Management Systems for Construction

   By Imriyas Kamardeen

   Series: Spon Research

   Occupational accidents have a massive personal and social cost as well as a major financial cost. The construction industry is one of the most dangerous industries, accounting for around 20–30% of all occupational deaths worldwide. The accompanying financial cost is either absorbed directly or...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions

   Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation, 2nd Edition

   By John Handmer, Stephen Dovers

   Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of...

   Published January 8th 2013 by Routledge
4. Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management

   By Bart Bossink

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between them, and the behavior of the system. This book explores the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Spatial Dimension of Risk

   How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

   Edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Mergers and Acquisitions

   The Critical Role of Stakeholders

   Edited by Helén Anderson, Virpi Havila, Fredrik Nilsson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. However, stakeholder theory shows how such a narrow and one-sided focus is detrimental to value-creation in general – not only for other stakeholders within and outside the...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Risk Management and Innovation in Japan, Britain and the USA

   Edited by Ruth Taplin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Assessing and managing risk is vitally important, and is increasingly studied in a range of areas including politics and international relations, finance and insurance, and innovation and the valuing of intangible assets such as patents and intellectual property. The degree to which innovation is...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Ulrich Beck

   An Introduction to the Theory of Second Modernity and the Risk Society

   By Mads Sørensen, Allan Christiansen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Since the 1980s, Ulrich Beck has worked extensively on his theories of second modernity and the risk society. In Ulrich Beck, Mads P. Sørensen and Allan Christiansen provide an extensive and thorough introduction to the German sociologist’s collected works. The book covers his sociology of work,...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. Risk, Risk Management and Regulation in the Banking Industry

   The Risk to Come

   By Peter Pelzer

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   This highly original book aims to broaden the discussion about risk, the management of risk and regulation, especially in the financial industry. By using terms of the philosopher Jacques Derrida, Peter Pelzer employs philosophical concepts to enrich the understanding of what risk is about and...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. Procuring Complex Performance

    Studies of Innovation in Product-Service Management

    Edited by Nigel Caldwell, Mickey Howard

    Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

    This book examines the management of Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in large-scale programmes that includes the downstream support phase in sectors such as construction, healthcare, transport, aerospace, marine and defence. It brings together a series of edited chapters to explain why the...

    Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge