The purpose of this thesis is to review a number of academic perspectives on the practice of risk management in primarily widely-held (i.e. quoted) firms. In particular the currently dominant modern finance approach is criticised on the grounds that it offers an overly narrow view of corporate...

This report which was published by CARR and the University of Plymouth, explores the issue of how financial institutions are increasingly investing in programmes to understand and manage their risk cultures. Despite near universal agreement that the organisational risk culture of banks and other...

The health and safety risk faced by individual employees can be treated as an unobservable latent variable which manifests itself at workplace level through reported counts of work-related injuries and illnesses over a given interval. This paper presents results from count data regressions using...

Operational risk announcements are unexpected adverse media news that potentially harm the reputation of financial institutions. This paper examines the equity-based and debt-based reputational effects of financial sentiment tones in operational risk announcements and shows how such reputational...

The risk culture of financial organizations is a popular area of focus at the current time, with regulators, advisory organizations, professional/trade institutes and financial organizations themselves all providing their view on the subject. However, despite the wealth of commentary there...