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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Managing Risks in Supply Chains

  An Empirical Investigation into Supply Chain Vulnerability Experienced by German Firms

  Stephan M. Wagner, Christoph Bode

  …primary purpose of this research was to study supply chain risk sources in more detail and specifically in- vestigate the relationship between supply chain… …vulnerability and supply chain risk. Based on the responses from 760 German-based firms it can be shown that struc- tural variables of supply chain design, such… …, are relevant for a firm’s exposure to supply chain risk. Overall, this research constitutes the first large-scale investigation and provides a more… …fine-grained understanding of antecedents of supply chain risks. Keywords: Supply Chain Management, Risk Management, Vulnerability, Survey 1 Introduction… …The recent memorable crises and catastrophes and their impact on supply chains have shaken up academics and practitioners for supply chain risk… …chain risk and risk management during the last years. A substantial body of recent literature deals with descriptions of supply chain disruptions and… …Stephan M. Wagner and Christoph Bode 80 risk mitigation and business continuity planning that aim at ultimately creating ro- bust and resilient supply… …, 2005a). In general, results from large-scale empirical research on supply chain risk issues are scarce (Peck & Jüttner, 2002; Svensson, 2002; Zsidisin &… …advantage of economies of scale in its inbound supply chain, it might be ex- posed to higher supply chain risk. The goal of this research is to investigate… …risk categories. Figure 1 shows the underlying mo- del. Customer dependence Supplier dependence Supplier concentration Single sourcing Global sourcing…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Risk Management Practices of SMEs

  Questionnaire Results

  Thomas Henschel

  …and the implementation of risk management in German small to medium-sized enterprises. In a first approach, the current state of risk management has… …results of the essentially descriptive examinations are used to develop a “scoring” ap- proach, which shall help to estimate the sophistication of risk… …management systems (Section 4.4). To validate the self-developed scoring of “risk man- agement practices,” the questionnaire results will be analysed by… …Firstly, the “basic variables” of the questionnaire sample is studied (Section 4.2.1). Then business planning, the pivotal element of a comprehensive risk… …management approach, is discussed (Section 4.2.2). As a first step toward the main topic of risk management, the univariate analysis reports on early warn- ing… …satisfactory. The average response rate of empirical studies on SME risk management practices goes from 8% to 17% (see Consultation and Research Center of the… …ICAEW, 2005, pp. 6–7; Clink, 2001, p. 90). Questionnaire Results 98 4.2.2 Business Planning as a Base for Risk Management As emphasized in the… …literature review (see Section 2.3), a well-developed business planning is seen as an essential instrument for a holistic risk man- agement. Since there are… …not well-developed (see the Appendix F, Question 1.8). 4.2.3 Early Warning Systems for Risk Identification To approach the subject of risk management… …whether they even may overestimate the capability of their risk management efforts. 4.3 Bivariate Analysis In the following sections, selected…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Risk Management Practices of SMEs

  Interview Results

  Thomas Henschel

  …indicated in Chapter 3, the research interviews particu- larly investigated the influence of management behaviour on the risk man- agement in SMEs. Section… …5.2 explores quantitative interview issues. This part covers the same risk management aspects as the corresponding questionnaire in Sec- tion 4.3. In… …proach, scoring variables to judge risk management abilities are constructed (Section 5.3). Then, being specific for the interview approach, the moderating… …effect of management behaviour on the establishing and maintaining of risk management is discussed (Section 5.4). The research interviews were carried out… …and risk management (Section 5.2.5) fol- low. The results are discussed with respect to enterprise size effects as well as with respect to the… …examine whether the risk management practices of the respec- tive firm have been changing over time. The interview firms were selected according to the… …established in our firm. In future, business planning shall be carried out by the controller and no longer by external consultants.” Since in the holistic risk… …analysis is evaluated by the interviews (Table 5.4). Just for “playful” estimating of risk effects what-if analysis and scenario analysis are suitable… …risk management. A medium-sized and a very large firm have already established it formally. Other firms at least estimate that such a link should be… …taken into consideration. Risk management use: Owner-Manager Within the perspectives chosen by the firm, risks are considered simultane- ously with the…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Risikokostenrechnung

  Das Risikomanagement

  Dr. Markus Siepermann

  …der Literatur uneinheitlich verwendet, vielfach wird synonym von Risiko- politik, Sicherheitspolitik oder auch Risk Management gesprochen,102 wobei… …jedoch mit den Begriffen Risikomanagement und Risk Management häufig auch etwas verschiedenes gemeint ist.103 Risk Management oder auch Insuran- ce… …Fehlerbaum-Analyse Management Oversight and Risk Tree (MORT) Flow-Chart-Analyse Fehlermöglichkeits- und Einflussanalyse (FMEA) Szenarioanalyse… …lassen,165 An- leihen oder Finite Risk Konzepte, die eine Mischung aus Versicherungs- und Finanzierungselementen darstellen.166 Bei Versicherungen ist zu…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Risk Management Practices of SMEs

  Research Methodology and Research Design

  Thomas Henschel

  …scoring approach of this study and the typology of risk manage- ment practices derived from the scoring. Finally, Section 3.6 briefly reports on the… …in 2002, only little (and unreliable) data was available on the state of risk management in German SMEs (see e.g. Kessler, 2000, p. 64; Kirchner, 2002… …, p. 200). This gave rise to the decision to determine current risk management practices in German SMEs by an explor- ative approach. The literature… …review has impressively revealed that risk management is a relatively new research area. No general standard has been established for risk management being… …suitable for SMEs (see, for example, ICAEW, 2005; Alquier and Tignol, 2006). Most literature sources on risk management deal with large firms. Concerning the… …. Moreover, getting an overview of current risk management prac- tices means holding a larger number of case studies; the generalization of the results of only… …a sensible and cost-effective opportunity of obtain- ing an overview of the current situation of risk management in SMEs. Since SMEs have a very… …, p. 8). Therefore a questionnaire will only be a first step (carried out in 2002 and 2004) to investigate the current state of risk manage- ment in… …between the components of a holistic risk management and for an inves- tigation of the differences in the patterns of decision-making on the part of the… …divided into the following main topics: management be- haviour, business planning, Balanced Scorecard and similar instruments, risk management and project…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Managing Risks in Supply Chains

  Managing Supply Risks: A System Theory Approach to Supply Early Warning Systems

  Christopher Jahns, Evi Hartmann, Marco Moder

  …risks, attention needs to be focused on the early stage of Supply Risk Management. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the key factors… …automotive industry. Keywords: Supply Management, Early Warning System, Risk Exposure, Supply Risk Management 1 Developments in Supply Environment and… …Markets Lead to an Increasing Risk Exposure for the Supply Management Trends and developments in environment and market structures have always been… …holistic Supply Risk Man- agement is of tremendous importance for the corporate performance of the purchas- ing company. Some selected conceptual examples… …potential if any supply risk becomes true. The necessary flexibility in modern logistics concepts can hardly be achieved with a Chinese supplier as the… …examples from the field of Supply Management clarify the necessity of an active Supply Risk Management. The question arises, which risks are actually… …relevant for Supply Management and how single companies can manage these identified risks. Supply Risk Identification, Analysis, and Assessment are the… …core processes of Supply Risk Management, because they represent the starting point for the whole procedure (cp. Figure 1). From this view, the identi-… …fication of Supply Risks is the most important element in the whole Supply Risk Management and becomes a process which is necessary for the economic… …survival of any company (Gleißner and Romeike 2005, p. 156; Müller 2001, p. 214). Supply Risk Management System 6.Comparison Risk SituationandRisk…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Risikokostenrechnung

  Einführung

  Dr. Markus Siepermann

  …, Kosteneinsparungen mit Hilfe der Optimierung von Ver- sicherungen zu realisieren, verschob sich der wissenschaftliche Fokus in den 1970er Jahren hin zum Risk… …unternehmerischen Risikos wird zur Darstellung der Risikosituation eines Unternehmens vielfach in Anlehnung an die BCG-Matrix die Verwendung einer sogenannten Risk… …Map oder Risikoma- trix vorgeschlagen.44 Bei der Risk Map handelt es sich um eine graphische Darstellung der Risikosituation, bei der für wichtig… …Abszisse die potenziel- len Schadenshöhen abgetragen (vgl. auch Abbildung 12 auf Seite 40). Als Vorteil solcher Risk Maps wird zum einen die… …Unterneh- mensrisiken vereinfacht. Der große Nachteil der Risk Maps besteht aber im Informationsverlust durch die aggregierte Darstellung: Durch die…

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• eJournal-Artikel aus "Zeitschrift Interne Revision" Ausgabe 6/2009

  Praktische Ausgestaltung von COSO ERM in Versicherungsunternehmen

  DIIR-Arbeitskreis "Interne Revision in der Versicherungswirtschaft"

  …Versicherungswirtschaft“* Im April 2004 hat das Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission das COSO Enterprise Risk Management (COSO ERM) vorgestellt… …. coso.org) STRATEGIC OPERATIONS Internal Environment Objective Setting Event Identification Risk Assessment Risk Response Control Activities Information &… …Chancen) dargestellt werden. 4. Risikobeurteilung (Risk Assessment): Hier sollten die Risiken bewertet und die wesentlichen Risiken (Hauptrisikotreiber) für… …. 5. Risiko-Maßnahmen (Risk Response): Hier sollten zu den ausgewählten Risiken jeweils eine mögliche Handhabung, z. B. Risikotragung…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch The Role of Internal Audit in Corporate Governance in Europe

  State of the art Internal Audit

  European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA)

  …systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effective- ness of risk management, control, and governance processes (Corporate Governance)… …the effectiveness of risk management, the internal control system and the simultaneous contribution to correct Corporate Governance practice. Since… …necessarily en- sures a better coverage of the audit universe, improves the risk oriented focus of audit activities, avoids redundant audit activities and… …mittees with the following objectives: to better manage accounting and management risk, to ensure the necessary independence required of the auditor, to… …approach, Internal Audit evaluates and improves the effectiveness of risk management and the control and supervision of business processes with respect to… …and have synthesised this to a process and risk oriented audit approach with respect to the financial statement. The IIA suggests the use of the… …internationalisation, group structure, industry, legal re- quirements, management culture, risk attitude etc. are always to be consid- • • • • 3.2 Scope of Internal… …terprise Risk Management. This scope is usually illustrated by means of a cube with the following com- ponents: Basic structuring element is the top-down… …COSO compo- nents should be considered as most relevant: Internal Environment Risk Management • • • • • 3 State of the art Internal Audit 29… …important to measure the risk appetite of the company’s management. To this end, Internal Audit can conduct an audit on ethical questions encom- passing…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Zentrale Tätigkeitsbereiche der Internen Revision

  Informationstechnologie (IT) und Interne Revision (IR)

  Klaus Heese

  …insbesondere eine Verbesserung der wertschöpfenden Kernprozesse zu erreichen. Allerdings sind auch ein ad- äquates Risk Management und wirksame Kontrollsysteme… …befaßt sich mit Enterpri- se Risk Management.6) Beide Rahmenwerke beschäftigen sich mit Risiken und den ihnen begegnenden Kontrollen. Neben anderen… …Framework, Volume1. 2. Aufl. Jersey City 1994. 6) The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of The Treadway Commission (COSO): Enterprise Risk Management… …Integrated Framework, Volume 1. 2. Auflage Jersey City 1994. The Committee of Sponsoring Oragnizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO): Enterprise Risk…

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