In December 2012, the Economist Intelligence Unit carried out a global survey on behalf of KPMG International. This survey gathered data from 1,092 respondents around the world in a closed-ended online questionnaire. All were C-level executives: 28 percent were Chief Executive Officers or equivalent and 18 percent were Chief Financial Officers, the two largest groups. Five percent were Chief Ri…
Abstract This paper focuses on the defining the role of CRO in corporate governance and to show the interrelation between the way of CRO subordination and performance of investment bank. The sample consists of observations over a period of 2011 for 29 biggest investment banks (by amount of assets) implementing world-wide investment activity. The banks are originated in the USA (8), Eastern …
Compensation is a key element of the employment relationship and, in addition to being the single greatest operating cost for many organizations, it has been advocated by some recently as a tool for enhancing organizational performance and sustained competitiveness. Contemporary approaches to compensation emphasize the importance of aligning employee behaviors to the strategic direction of …
This paper suggests that due to the changing nature of the firm, viewing shareholders as the sole residual claimants is an increasingly tenuous description of the actual relationships among a corporation’s various stakeholders. Thus, a shareholder wealth perspective is increasingly unsatisfactory for accurately answering the two fundamental questions concerning the theory of the firm: that of…
This paper discusses the design characteristics management accounting systems should have to be useful for strategic planning and control and provides brief introductions to strategic variance analysis and profit-linked performance measurement models. It shows two multi-period, multi-product models (Banker, Chang and Majumdar 1993; Banker and Johnston 1989) are specified, can be related to Port…
Review of the strategy literature indicates there has been five phases in the evolution of the field since World War II. The paradigm was at its peak in the 1970s with the strategic planning phase, however, prescriptive approaches to strategy formulation and implementation were demonstrated to be inadequate in this period in the face of environmental uncertainty. In the 1980s the field evol…
This article tries to identify the crucial dimensions of strategic management in universities. To do so, the author looks at some practical cases of successful strategic decisionmaking in European universities. This case study approach is motivated by the conviction that in universities strategic management should be done with a permanent eye on their specific organisational environment ra…
This paper studies a strategy that minimizes the risk of a position in a zero coupon bond by buying a percentage of a put option, subject to a fixed budget available for hedging. We consider two popular risk measures: Value-at-Risk(VaR) and Tail Value-at-Risk (TVaR). We elaborate a formula for determining the optimal strike price for this put option in case of a Hull-White stochastic interes…
The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (“UNJSPF”) administers a diverse and complex international public pension system based on a fully funded defined-benefit pension scheme. In 2009, annual pension benefits payments amounting to 1.9 billion USD dollars were paid in 15 currencies, there were some 110,000 participants and 60,000 pensioners/ beneficiaries residing and/or working in …
In a world of geo-political, social and economic uncertainty, strategic financial management is in a process of change, which requires a reassessment of the fundamental assumptions that cut across the traditional boundaries of the subject. Read on and you will not only appreciate the major components of contemporary finance but also find the subject much more accessible for future reference. …
Recent years have been tumultuous in the agricultural sector. Price volatility has increased, with sharp swings in product and input prices. Markets have been affected by macro-economic disturbances, disease outbreaks and adverse weather events such as floods and droughts. The latter may become more frequent through climate change. With agricultural policies that are more decoupled from product…
Established businesses are trying to take advantage of the opportunities and minimize the threats presented by e-business. Although e-business has emerged as a strategic imperative for many firms, v/e found that vision and strategy paled in importance compared to learning and implementation in the process of transforming to an e-business organization. Regardless of their strategic objectives…
In Chapter 24, we explained risk management techniques that employ derivative securities. In this extension we discuss an alternative technique for managing risk: insurance. The first step in a corporate insurance program is to identify all potential losses, and the second step is to assess their likelihoods of occurrence and loss potentials. We begin by discussing risk identification and …
Wheelen and Hunger (2002) say that strategic management is a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of an organization. It includes environmental scanning (both external and internal) strategy formulation (strategic or long- range planning), strategy implementation and evaluation and control. The study of strategic management emphasizes the monitori…
Effective risk management is fundamental to the business activities of the group. While we remain committed to increasing shareholder value by developing and growing our business within our board-determined risk appetite, we are mindful of achieving this objective in line with the interests of all stakeholders.
This book is aimed at students, graduates, and practitioners in all fields of the built environment. The secund edition has been subject tu a cunsiderable overhaul from the publication of tlie first edition in 1991. At that time the constriaction industry was in the midst of a severe recession and construction corporations were actively considering strategic issues. The professions were st…
As financial institutions large and small grapple with the challenges of the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, the approaches these institutions take toward retail credit card customer risk management can have a profound effect on their success in weathering the current storm—and in fostering profitable customer relationships for the future. By employing the best practic…