Governments, investors, and consumers have stepped up pressure on publicly listed companies to face up to climate risks and to reduce carbon emissions. At the same time, the pressure to deliver financial results remains strong. Based on research on 19 European carbon-intensive corporations in...

For two decades, risk management has been gaining ground in banking, despite a series of corporate failures, large-scale losses, regional crises, and a worldwide financial crisis that have been cast as risk-management failures. Power (2004a) explained this with his model of the cyclical...

In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk managers in two large UK banks over a period of six years. Our analysis highlights that a process we term toolmaking, whereby experts create, articulate and shape tools that embody their expertise, is central to the way in which...

The case, in a non-profit project-oriented setting, introduces fundamental risk management principles and processes that are easily applicable to private sector settings. Gentry Lee, senior systems engineer and de-facto chief risk officer, is applying a new comprehensive risk management system...