Research, Practices, and Innovations in Global Risk and Contingency Management (Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1522547541 ISBN 13: 9781522547549

Publisher: Business Science Reference, 2018

Synopsis

"This book provides an all-encompassing discussion respecting the nature of risks and perception. It gives readers a fresh reading on empirical researchers and study cases, strengthens the current literature on risk with new focuses and contributions, and expands the understanding around the effects of risk in culture and vice-versa"--

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About the Author

Kenneth Strang has more than 260 mostly-sole-authored scholarly publications. He is a professor at the State University of New York. He has been teaching and supervising undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students since 1997 across five disciplines: business administration, management information systems, marketing/consumer behavior, supply chain management and economics/statistics. Ken has a doctorate in project management (operations research), an MBA (strategic management), a BSBA (marketing), an AAS (IT) all with summa cum laude/honors plus he is an internationally licensed Project Management Professional (PMI, USA), a Certified Network Administrator (Novell, USA) and a Fellow Life Management Institute with distinction (LOMA, USA). Dr. Strang has lifetime grant projects valued over $7 million+, and he has won several honors including a Behavior Energy Climate Change Fellowship from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the Emerald Literati award and Duke of Edinborough community service medal, along with several presidential citations. He is the founder/Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management and Associate-Editor at others.

Maximiliano Korstanje is editor in chief of International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism (UP Argentina) and International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism (IGI-GlobalUS). Besides being Senior Researchers in the Department of Economics at University of Palermo, Argentina, he is a global affiliate of Tourism Crisis Management Institute (University of Florida US), Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (University of Leeds), The Forge (University of Lancaster and University of Leeds UK) and The International Society for Philosopher, hosted in Sheffield UK. With more than 800 published papers and 40 books, Korstanje was awarded as Outstanding Reviewer 2012. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. University of Salford, UK, Outstanding Reviewer 2013. Journal of Place Management and Development. Institute of Place, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Reviewer Certificate of Acknowledgement 2014.International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM)), University of Central Florida, US. Now he co-edits almost 10 specialized journals in such themes as human rights, mobility, tourism and terrorism. Korstanje is subject to biographical records for Marquis Who`s Who in the World since 2009. He had nominated to 5 honorary doctorates for his contribution in the study of the effects of terrorism in tourism. In 2015 he was awarded as Visiting Research Fellow at School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK.

Narasimha Rao Vajjhala is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Nigeria. He holds a doctorate in management in organizational leadership with specialization in information systems and technology. He has over 12 years of teaching experience. He is a senior member of Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) and is also a certified project management professional (PMP). His research interests include: Knowledge management, knowledge sharing in transition economies, cross-cultural management, technology acceptance, cloud computing, and big data.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1522547541
• ISBN 13: 9781522547549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: Strang Kenneth David, Korstanje Maximiliano E., Vajjhala Narasimha