Disruptions that temporarily interrupt production pose a significant risk for manufacturing firms. To manage this risk firms can purchase interruption insurance and/or deploy operational measures such as storing inventory or taking preparedness actions that reduce the expected interruption...

Disruptive events that halt production can have severe business consequences if not appropriately managed. Business interruption (BI) insurance offers firms a financial mechanism for managing their exposure to disruption risk. Firms can also avail of operational measures to manage the risk. In...

"Risk-control practices are often carried out by the finance function of a corporation without much input from other functional areas and lack of analysis on their impact of the supply chain and operational decisions. This book aims to bridge the gap in the literature by providing an unified...