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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53869#.VNm4LSzQrzE Author(s)   Leena Pekkinen , Kirsi Aaltonen Affiliation(s) Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland . ABSTRACT Increasingly, projects are executed by networks of organizations. The networked form of organization has many important implications for project risk management. Information processing theories introduce mechanisms for processing information inside organizations as well as among organizations to reduce the uncertainty and equivocality inherently present in international projects. This study aims to examine the risk management practices involved at a project network level through an empirical analysis of one complex large project network executed in a challenging institutional environment. With regard to network level risk management, the paper identifies eight formal information processing m...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53502#.VMci8SzQrzE Author(s)   Adel Al Khattab 1 , Mahmaod Al-Rawad 1 , Sliman Al Soboa 1 , Khamis Al-Khattab 2   Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Accounting, College of Business School, Al-Hussain Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan . 2 PhD Student, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt . ABSTRACT The recent events in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Pakistan have highlighted the importance of political events to business. Government actions, furthermore, are increasingly pervading all spheres of business activity. Since political events and government actions may affect enterprise performance, there is a need to take them into account in planning and executing strategy. As a response to the increasing impact of political events on business, a new function concerned with the assessment of country risk is gradually emerging in enterprises. ...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53199#.VLck-MnQrzE Author(s)    Marie Thomas , Makiko Obana , Tetsuro Tsujimoto Affiliation(s) Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan . ABSTRACT In this study, the application of the resilience concept of the flood event depending on progress of the time is analyzed as the hazard occurrence, the disaster risk, the damage risk, and the evolution of the damages. Flood disaster is defined as the occurrence of an inundation in an exposed area. The human exposure (loss of life, injury, …), structural (buildings, roads, …) and functional (economic, political, … functions of an area) economic exposure cause high risk of damage if the area in which the hazard occurs is at low resilience. Furthermore the damage will increase without adequate response against disaster. The flood disaster risk is decreased by flood control measures, re...