Understanding Risk: Recent Contributions from the Journal of Risk and Governance

$179.00

Matthias Beck, PhD (Editor)
University of York, York, United Kingdom

Series: Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives
BISAC: BUS000000

The book is divided into three sections. The first section examines issues in relation to corporate governance in the private sector, with emphasis being placed on issues such as “Board Decision-Making,” “’Earnings Management and Audit Committee Effectiveness” and “Corporate Governance Failures.” These contributions are complemented by the second section, which looks at governance and risk issues affecting the public sector, with a focus being placed on “Public-Private Sector Partnering” and the impact of regulatory reform on the life sciences. Section three focuses on societal risk management in relation to health safety and the environment. In this context, contributions are presented in relation to major debates surrounding the “Rising Trends in Cancer Cases” throughout the world; the dilemmas surrounding “Medical Self Help,” “Mental Health Policy” and the use of “Information Technology in Health Care.” I hope readers will find this edited volume useful and stimulating. (Imprint: Nova)

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Editorial

A) CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Improving Risk Governance – A Proposal on Board Decision-Making
(Patrick Mc Connell)

Earnings Management, Audit Committee Effectiveness and the Role of Blockholders Ownership: Evidence from UK Large Firms
(Murya Habbash)

Northern Rock – The Group that Thinks Together Sinks Together
(Patrick J. McConnell)

Bank Failures of the 1990s: An Exploratory Analysis
(Matthias Beck)

B) PUBLIC SECTOR AND PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP

Failure of Risk Governance in Public Sector ICT-Based Innovations: Analysis and Synthesis
(Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama, and Ari-Veikko Anttiroika)

Stakeholder Responses to Regulatory Reform: Evaluating Governance Changes within the Field of Human Tissue Regulation
(Beth Kewell, Kate Robson-Brown, Andrew Webster, and Peter Halls)

C) HEALTH, SAFETY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Barriers to the Recognition of Occupationally Related Cancers
(Jim James Brophy and Margaret Keith)

Close Relations in Open Spaces ¬on Self-Help across the Rural-Urban Divide
(Roar Stokken, Johan Barstad, and Gudrun Thokle)

Mental Health Policy Making in England in the Risk Society: A Political Discourse Analysis
(Brodie Paterson, Sandy McComish, Ian McIntosh, and Tom Mason)

From Talk to Text: On a New Computer System, Discharge Planning and Instrumentalism
(Roar Stokken and Felicia Gabrielsson-Järhult)

Index

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