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Mixed Risk Management Practices: Insights from Management Accounting and What It Means for Strategic Risk Management

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Risk has been seen as an important strategic issue for more than a decade (Clarke and Varma, 1999), and the use of formal practices (Andersen, 2010) to handle risk have recently moved into the corporate agenda. Hence, enterprise-wide risk management systems (Arena et al., 2010) are increasingly seen as a marker of good corporate governance (Power et al., 2009).

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Christiansen, U. (2014). Mixed Risk Management Practices: Insights from Management Accounting and What It Means for Strategic Risk Management. In: Andersen, T.J. (eds) Contemporary Challenges in Risk Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137447623_7

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