1st Edition

Strategic Risk Leadership Engaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty, and the Unknown

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

Modern risk management as practiced today faces significant obstacles—we argue—primarily due to the fundamental premise of the concept itself. It asserts that we are mainly dealing with measurable, quantifiable risks and that we can manage the uncontrollable by relying on formal control-based systems, which has produced a general view that (enterprise) risk management is a technical-scientific... Read more

Acknowledgements, Foreword, Chapter One: Is this a risk management book? Chapter Two: The story of risk management, Chapter Three: Standards and practices, Chapter Four: Thinking about (thinking about) risk management, Chapter Five: What, then, is risk management? Index

Biography

Torben Juul Andersen is Professor of Strategy and International Management at the Copenhagen Business School and Director of the Global Strategic Responsiveness Initiative. He has previously held executive positions at Citibank/Citicorp Investment Bank, SDS Securities, Unibank, and PHB Hagler-Bailly and is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Risk Management (IRM). Torben has also authored numerous books and academic articles on strategy and risk management topics.

Peter C. Young holds the 3M Endowed Chair in International Business at the University of St. Thomas, Opus College of Business and is Director of the Risk Leadership Initiative. He was previously the E. W. Blanch Senior Chair in Risk Management. Peter has been a Visiting Professor at City University, London and Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, as well as Distinguished Honorary Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University. Among many awards, he has received the ALARM-UK Lifetime Service award.