Contemporary Challenges in Risk Management: Dealing with Risk, Uncertainty and the Unknown

The project comprises an edited collection of contributions from key note speakers and selective academic presenters at the 6th International Risk Management Conference - IRMC 2013, which was hosted by the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. The IRMC 2013 conference brought together leading experts and professionals from various academic disciplines to discuss risk management under the general theme: Enduring Financial Stability: Contemporary Challenges for Risk Management and Governance. This theme reflected the cross-disciplinary perspective of the conference that as something quite unique and new welcomed papers from the fields of finance, economics and strategic management for fruitful exchanges. This particular conference introduced a special topic: Contemporary Risk Management Challenges - Managing Risk in an Unstable Environment to emphasize the important managerial aspects of the complex and multifaceted risk management challenge.This collection of articles, therefore, comprises contributions responding to this call for inquiry reintroducing central aspects of 'management' in risk management that hitherto have been somewhat overlooked or subdued. Contemporary Challenges in Risk Management focuses on two central aspects of the risk managing process, namely (1) how managers (can and do) assess developments in the external risk environment and deal with them, and (2) analysing the effects of risk management and different managerial approaches. The articles represent state of the art academic analyses and research contributions.

This book focuses on two central aspects of the risk managing process, namely 1. how managers (can and do) assess developments in the external risk environment and deal with them, and 2. analysing the effects of risk management and different managerial approaches. The articles represent state of the art academic analyses and research contributions.

Torben Juul Andersen is Professor of Strategy and International Management at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark. He was the Associate Dean for the Fulltime MBA Program during 2008-2012. He previously taught financial economics at George Mason University and Johns Hopkins University and held positions as Vice President at Citibank/Citicorp Investment Bank, Senior Vice President at Unibank, Managing Director of SDS Securities, and Senior Consultant with PHB Hagler-Bailly. Torben's current research interests evolve around concerns for effective strategy-making processes, strategic responsiveness and strategic risk management. His articles have appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Research and Risk Management among others.

Introduction - Contemporary Challenges in Risk Management; Torben J. Andersen

1. Distinguishing Rationality and Bias in Prices - Implications from Judgments of Risk and Expected Return; Hersh Shefrin

2. Looking Under the Lamppost? A Research Agenda for Increasing Enterprise Risk Management's Usefulness to Practitioners; Philip Bromiley and Davaki Rau

3. The Risk-return Outcomes of Strategic Responsiveness; Torben J. Andersen and Richard A. Bettis

4. Exploring the Effect of Effective Risk Management Capabilities; Anders Ø. Hansen and Torben J. Andersen

5. The 'soft' Side of Strategic Risk Management - How Top Managers' Leadership Style Affects Volatility in Performance; Simon S. Torp and Stefan Linder

6. A Management Accounting Perspective on Risk Management; Ulrik Christiansen

7. Subjective Beliefs and Statistical Forecasts of Financial Risks - The Chief Risk Officer Project; Glenn W. Harrison and Richard D. Phillips

8. Defaults and Returns in the High-yield Bond and Distressed Debt Markets - Review and Outlook; Edward I. Altman and Brenda J. Kuehne