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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459271203321

Autore

Andersen Torben Juul

Titolo

Strategic risk management practice : how to deal effectively with major corporate exposures / / Torben Juul Andersen and Peter Winther Schrøder [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-511-73927-3

1-107-20298-1

0-521-13215-0

0-511-81601-4

0-511-68135-6

0-511-68333-2

0-511-67937-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

658.15/5

Soggetti

Risk management

Strategic planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

The strategic nature of corporate risk management -- Economic exposures in corporate risk management -- Managing market-related business exposures -- Extending the risk management perspective -- Integrative risk management perspectives -- Current risk management practice and the rise of ERM -- Strategic risk analyses -- Strategic risk management amendments to the ERM framework -- Strategic risk management.

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when corporate scandals and major financial failures dominate newspaper headlines, the importance of good risk management practices has never been more obvious. The absence or mismanagement of such practices can have devastating effects on exposed organizations and the wider economy (Barings Bank, Enron, Lehmann Brothers, Northern Rock, to name but a few). Today's organizations and corporate leaders must learn the lessons of such failures by developing practices to deal effectively with risk. This book



is an important step towards this end. Written from a European perspective, it brings together ideas, concepts and practices developed in various risk markets and academic fields to provide a much-needed overview of different approaches to risk management. It critiques prevailing enterprise risk management frameworks (ERMs) and proposes a suitable alternative. Combining academic rigour and practical experience, this is an important resource for graduate students and professionals concerned with strategic risk management.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141381203321

Titolo

Protein kinase CK2 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lorenzo A. Pinna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ames, Iowa, : Wiley-Blackwell, : IUBMB, 2013

ISBN

1-118-48234-4

1-118-48249-2

1-283-70015-8

1-118-48238-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 p.)

Collana

Wiley-IUBMB series on biochemistry and molecular biology

Altri autori (Persone)

PinnaLorenzo A

Disciplina

612/.015756

Soggetti

Protein kinase CK2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Molecular and structural aspects -- pt. 2. Functional aspects -- pt. 3. CK2 and Neoplasia.

Sommario/riassunto

The importance of CK2 in cancer and other diseases has generated a significant amount of literature on the protein, and an international community of CK2 researchers. The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUMBMB) sponsors periodic international conferences on CK2, making the protein a natural topic for a Wiley-IUBMB publication. Protein Kinase CK2 will deal with structural aspects underlying the constitutive activity of CK2, its specific susceptibility to pharmacological inhibition and its extraordinary pleiotropy. In the second part the fundamental role of CK