The implementation of the Single European Market in 1992, if it comes, will have widespread implications for the United Kingdom. The impact will not just be on a national basis. The regions themselves will be just as profoundly affected. Whether the consequences are good or bad will depend upon...

This article reviews the major information systems projects in the National Health Service over the past 25 years. Rather than looking backwards, it isolates important lessons and issues that should be considered by management in organizations considering the implementation of information systems.

This study explores, using predominately qualitative data, the risk management approaches of British Army officers in operational theatre. Risks within an operational context are particularly challenging for the British Army to manage due to external constraints such as its adherence to various...

<italic>Background</italic>. We view overconfidence within risk management as a problem likely to manifest within philosophical preferences for anticipationism over resilienism, and in assumptions that risks are objectively real external powers or potentialities rather than subjective knowledge propositions....</italic>

This paper explores the impact of regulations on the perceptions and management of risk. The study focuses on Zimbabwean banks. We evaluated the influence of banking regulatory policy using data gathered from a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) questionnaire and data measuring annual overall...

We explore aspects of unconventional competition between firms. In particular, we address two critical questions. The first is: what happens when firms decide to compete outside the rules and frameworks of conventional competition? In other words, how should firms react to competitors who employ...

We argue that cognition linking risk to innovation is influenced by two distinct cognitive paradigms which have deep roots in personality and culture and are closely bound up with political identity. We differentiate between a paradigm of Promethean conservatism where innovation is perceived as...