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Contemporary Challenges in Risk Management

Dealing with Risk, Uncertainty and the Unknown

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Torben Juul Andersen

    1. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Contemporary Challenges in Risk Management

    • Torben J. Andersen
    Pages 1-6

  3. Distinguishing Rationality and Bias in Prices: Implications from Judgments of Risk and Expected Return

    • Hersh Shefrin
    Pages 7-49

  4. Looking under the Lamppost? A Research Agenda for Increasing Enterprise Risk Management’s Usefulness to Practitioners

    • Philip Bromiley, Devaki Rau
    Pages 50-62

  5. The Risk-Return Outcomes of Strategic Responsiveness

    • Torben J. Andersen, Richard A. Bettis
    Pages 63-90

  6. Exploring the Effect of Effective Risk Management Capabilities

    • Anders Ø. Hansen, Torben J. Andersen
    Pages 91-115

  7. The “Soft” Side of Strategic Risk Management: How Top Managers’ Leadership Style Affects Volatility in Performance

    • Simon S. Torp, Stefan Linder
    Pages 116-140

  8. Mixed Risk Management Practices: Insights from Management Accounting and What It Means for Strategic Risk Management

    • Ulrik Christiansen
    Pages 141-162

  9. Subjective Beliefs and Statistical Forecasts of Financial Risks: The Chief Risk Officer Project

    • Glenn W. Harrison, Richard D. Phillips
    Pages 163-202

  10. Defaults and Returns in the High-Yield Bond and Distressed Debt Market: Review and Outlook

    • Edward I. Altman, Brenda J. Kuehne
    Pages 203-253

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 254-259
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About this book

This book focuses on two central aspects of the risk managing process, namely 1. how managers (can and do) assess developments in the external risk environment and deal with them, and 2. analysing the effects of risk management and different managerial approaches. The articles represent state of the art academic analyses and research contributions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

    Torben Juul Andersen

About the editor

Torben Juul Andersen is Professor of Strategy and International Management at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark. He was the Associate Dean for the Fulltime MBA Program during 2008-2012. He previously taught financial economics at George Mason University and Johns Hopkins University and held positions as Vice President at Citibank/Citicorp Investment Bank, Senior Vice President at Unibank, Managing Director of SDS Securities, and Senior Consultant with PHB Hagler-Bailly. Torben's current research interests evolve around concerns for effective strategy-making processes, strategic responsiveness and strategic risk management. His articles have appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Research and Risk Management among others.

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