We develop the first basic Operational Risk perspective on key risk management issues associated with the development of new forms of electronic currency in the real economy. In particular, we focus on understanding the development of new risks types and the evolution of current risk types as new components of financial institutions arise to cater for an increasing demand for electronic money, ...

The disruption of operations due to IS failure becomes more important as IS has become an increasingly essential component of the organization’s operations and can affect its strategic objectives. Nevertheless, traditional IS risk analysis methods do not adequately reflect the loss from disruption of operations in determining the value of IS assets. Quantitative methods do not measure the loss ...

Purpose: Define demand management concept and provide a guidance for the preconditions that need to be in place in order for a company to implement demand management process with its suppliers and customers. Design/methodology/approach: Uses the systematic literature review divided into three stages: planning the review, conducting the review, and reporting the review. Findings: This study clar...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States and the Western world entered into a new era – one in which large scale terrorist acts are to be expected. The impacts of the new era will challenge supply chain managers to adjust relations with suppliers and customers, contend with transportation difficulties and amend inventory management strategies. This paper looks at the twin corpora...

The past literature on information systems and supply chain management has broadly argued on how information systems could impact indirectly a firm’s performance, specifically in terms of process integrations with suppliers and customers. The tendency to deliberate on external process integration has altered the firm’s focus from internal process integration which used to be considered as one o...

As outsourcing is becoming mandate for today’s business, there has been a variety of researches taking place. This paper discusses on managing operational risks in an organization where one or more business processes are being outsourced. We first review on changing nature of operational risks not only in outsourced process itself, but also among any other interrelated processes. Then a concept...

Empirical studies and surveillance projects increasingly assess and address potentially adverse psychological health outcomes from the stress of military operations, but no standards yet exist for common concept definitions, variable categories, and measures. This article reports the consensus recommendations of the federal interagency Operational Stress Working Group for common data elements t...