Actuarial Science is a discipline with a fascinating blend of traditional approaches, developed over many decades of experience, and modern techniques which are available thanks to the fast development of statistical, computational, and mathematical tools, new insights into dependence modeling, analysis of big data, financial engineering, risk management, and insurance economics. At the same ti…
Our ways met in early 2010 when the World Bank Group through the IFC Corporate Governance Unit decided to embark on a training program on risk governance for board members and senior managers with the aim of promoting good risk management practices linking corporate risk-taking with strategic decision-making. In preparing this work, we combined complementary insights from the corporate governan…
The information revolution has given birth to new economies structured around flows of data, information, and knowledge. In parallel, social networks1 have grown stronger as forms of organization of human activity.2 Social networks are nodes of individuals, groups, organizations, and related systems that tie in one or more types of interdependencies: these include shared values, visions, and id…
(Abstract Syntax Notation One) is an international standard which aims at specifying of data used in telecommunication protocols. It is a computing language that is both powerful and complex: it was designed for modeling efficiently communications between heterogeneous systems. ASN.1 was in great need of a reference book, didactic as well as precise and Olivier Dubuisson’s book meets these de…
This paper analyses 26 years of strategic management research published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal. Through a content analysis, it studies the relationships between the subfields of strategic management. A multiple correspondence analysis provides a map of keywords and authors, and a frame…
The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution of the strategic management literature based on an analysis of the content of the past 26 years of strategic management research published in the leading journals in the field, namely, the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Academy of Management Review (AMR), Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) and the Strategic Management Journal…
Marketing is at a crossroads. Until 1960, when Theodore Levitt wrote Marketing Myopia,1 it had not been considered a serious function of strategic management. From there, the discipline developed at such pace that Marketing Management,2 Philip Kotler’s classic textbook, is in its 13th edition counting 816 pages. Organizations have never had such powerful information and communication technolo…