This note presents survey findings regarding risk management and insurance curriculum design issues. Several courses are a primary foundation experience.

This paper provides one assessment of the current status and future expectations of risk management and insurance (RMI) education. This assessment is based on a survey of academic members of the three major RMI academic organizations (ARIA, SRIA, and WRIA) conducted at the end of the 1999...

Numerous firms offer competing ratings of insurer financial condition. Insurance consumers, producers, and others commonly puzzle over which rating is more accurate. A 1994 Government Accounting Office (GAO) report judged the performance of a group of these insurance rating agencies. That report...

In today's global marketplace, the internationalization decision has become increasingly relevant for a greater number of firms. We use the framework of the eclectic paradigm to empirically investigate the decision of U.S. reinsurers to internationalize based on their net exposure in both...

The basis of this teaching case is a small nursery and landscape business in the Northeast United States. The case describes how the company attempted to implement a decentralization and employee empowerment program to move relevant decision-making closer to the work site. It illustrates that...

We integrate theory and findings from the strategic groups and reputation literatures to examine the consequences of cognitive strategic group membership and positioning within strategic groups on the media reputations of firms. We extend past discussions of media reputation to examine...

The purpose of this article is to examine stakeholder identification and prioritization by managers using the power, legitimacy, and urgency framework of Mitchell et al. (Academy of Management Review 22, 853-886; 1997). We use a multi-method, comparative case study of two large-scale sporting event...

Currency movements create difficulties for businessmen and investors and for the authorities in management of the economy. Attempts have been made to devise measures of a currency's strength against a group of other currencies by using trade-weighted currency indexes. While they all attempt to...

This study tests a central proposition of institutional theory, that organizational isomorphism increases organizational legitimacy. Results show that isomorphism in the strategies of commercial banks is related to legitimacy conferred by bank regulators and the media, even in the presence of...

Drawing from economic and cognitive theories, researchers have argued that firms within an industry tend to cluster together, following similar strategies. Their positioning in strategic groups, in turn, is argued to influence firm actions and firm performance. We extend this research to examine...