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Open Access 13-04-2024 | Original Paper

Navigating frugality and creativity urgencies: the role of diagnostic use of budgets and goal clarity

Organizations increasingly promote individual creativity as a strategy to manage their performance and financial strain. Drawing on self-regulation and goal-setting theories, this study examines whether the diagnostic use of budgets stifles or …

Authors:
Ranjith Appuhami, Faruk Bhuiyan, Christina Boedker

Open Access 30-03-2024 | Original Paper

The role of risk management orientation and the planning function of budgeting in enhancing organizational resilience and its effect on competitive advantages during times of crises

Global economic crises can have a significant impact on businesses across different sectors, often leading to difficulties or even insolvency. In such a situation, organizational resilience is often considered a means to ensure the competitive …

Authors:
Julia Eichholz, Nicole Hoffmann, Anja Schwering

Open Access 23-03-2024 | Original Paper

Cost management and working capital management: ebony and ivory in perfect harmony?

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the potential association between a firm’s cost behavior, characterized as cost stickiness or anti-stickiness, and working capital management (WCM), as measured by the working capital to total …

Authors:
Terje Berg, Emil Gustafsson, Ranik Raaen Wahlstrøm

Open Access 23-03-2024 | Original Paper

The role of enterprise risk management in enabling organisational resilience: a case study of the Swedish mining industry

This study empirically examines the role of enterprise risk management (ERM) in developing and maintaining resilience resources and capabilities that are necessary for an organisation’s strategic transformation towards sustainability. Data was …

Authors:
Aynaz Monazzam, Jason Crawford

Open Access 07-02-2024 | Original Paper

Risk management during the COVID-19 crisis: insights from an exploratory case study of medium-sized family businesses

Current crises pose uncertainties and threats to family businesses (FBs), demonstrating the importance of risk management (RM). Based on an explorative case study of nine Austrian medium-sized FBs, we examine the design of RM in FBs and how the …

Authors:
Julia Riepl, Christine Mitter, Michael Kuttner

Open Access 05-02-2024 | Original Paper

More certainty in uncertainty: a special life-cycle approach for management decisions in volatile markets

Risk managers as corporate stewards are important gatekeepers in enterprises and they are essential to managing risks. Relatedly, a more accurate evaluation of the risk factors allows a well-founded decision-making process and reduces the number …

Author:
Marcel Röser