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Evidence of incentive risk culture in South African bank compensation reports
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)Using a qualitative content analysis method, this paper explored a unique area of risk culture by focusing on a specific risk type, incentive risk. The purpose of the study was to utilise publicly available compensation ... -
The influence of risk stakeholder personality on risk framing: an exploratory study
(2016)Corporate governance models segregate the role of risk manager and risk taker to allow for independent challenge of risk-related decisions. Numerous studies have demonstrated that broad personality traits predict risk-related ... -
Interpreting the concept of risk culture : a review of academic literature and consulting documents
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)This qualitative study is intended to provide a review of the interpretation of risk culture depicted in academic articles and consulting documents. In recent years, risk culture has come to be recognised as an important ... -
Issues with enterprise risk management buy-in: a South African government case study
(2015)The South African national government implemented enterprise risk management (ERM) to facilitate a strong public sector, able to contribute to economic development and social upliftment across South Africa. ERM principles ... -
Mechanisms to identify synergies between compliance and operational risk functions
(2016)Academic literature is limited on how to coordinate the compliance and operational risk functions in organisations. The functional overlap between these two functions in financial institutions, such as banks, may result ... -
Perceptions of risk culture in a South African electricity utility : risk practitioners versus business managers
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)Risk culture is considered a crucial enabling factor for effective risk management. The ability of an organisation’s risk community to predict hindrances to achieving their objectives is the very basis of fostering risk ... -
Programme risk management : challenges and proposed solutions
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)Programme management is increasingly being used by organisations to deliver strategic change. Consequently, the importance of programme risk management to support programme management in the delivery of capital infrastructure ... -
Risk culture at senior and middle management level: a telecommunications case study
(North-West University (South Africa), Vaal Triangle Campus, 2016)A mature risk culture is recognised as a key component of an effective risk management system. Such a system can support management in providing the required risk assurance to the board of a company, and ultimately assist ... -
Risk culture in card payment acceptance: a case study
(North-West University (South Africa), Vaal Triangle Campus, 2016)There are not many published academic articles on risk culture in the financial services. This academic study seems to be the first to focus on risk culture in the unexplored area of the card payment acceptance industry. ... -
Risk culture insights from annual reports: a big six South African banking group study
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)This exploratory study investigated the insufficiently researched topic of risk culture insights from annual reports by addressing the fundamental question: How useful is annual-report-based risk-related information for ... -
Risk reporting and risk-informed decision making in a South African bank
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)To maintain financial stability, banks have to take risks to achieve their strategic objectives. Hence, senior managers are expected to optimise the risk culture of the bank by having a shared risk understanding, challenging ... -
Stakeholder perception of risk tone in an insurance company
(North-West University (South Africa), Vaal Triangle Campus, 2016)was evaluated in this study. Risk tone was viewed as both the result, and behavioural enabler of risk culture. The pilot version of the UARM Risk Culture Questionnaire (UARM RCQ-2016) was used as the survey instrument. The ... -
Telecommunication risk cultures: an African head office-subsidiary comparison
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)Organisational scandals or unexpected losses are usually associated with risk governance weaknesses. However, formal risk management frameworks cannot be the only measure for evaluating the effectiveness of risk governance ...
