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一、外文文献
Evaluating Enterprise Risk Management (ERM); Bahrain Financial Sectors as a Case
Study
Abstract
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a process used by firms to manage risks and seize opportunities related to the achievement of their objectives. ERM provides a proactive framework for risk management, which typically involves identifying particular events relevant to the organization's objectives, assessing them and magnitude of impact, determining a response strategy, and monitoring progress. This research measures the awareness of Bahrain financial sector of ERM and if companies maintain an effective ERM framework. The results show success since all companies are aware of ERM and have an effective ERM framework in place.
Keywords: Enterprise Risk Management, Financial sectors, ERM framework 1. Introduction 1.1 Overview
The pace of change and characteristics of the new economy are exposing organizations to take risks more than ever before. Therefore mastering these risks can be a real source of opportunity and challenge and a powerful way of sustaining a competitive edge. Especially for companies to sustain and survive in the long run where companies need an effective &continuous risk management. Risk influences every aspect of business as they say \Bahraini Companies face and managing them appropriately will enhance their ability to make better decisions, deliver company's objectives and hence subsequently improve performance. It is also important to note that risk is categorized into: financial, operational, strategic, and reputation risk. Enterprise Risk Management is any significant event or circumstance, which could impact the achievement of business objectives, including strategic, operational, financial, and compliance risks. ERM helps create a comprehensive approach to anticipating, identifying, prioritizing,
and managing material risks of the Company. 1.2 Research Objective
The objective of this research is to take a more strategic and consistent approach to managing risk across, Bahrain's financial sector through the introduction of an Enterprise Risk Management (\the protection and the creation of value. When looking back at the corporate scandals i.e. Enron &world com, financial crisis of 1997, 2009 misled the investors and resulted in investors loosing confident &dissatisfaction. The result of that crisis was not limited to the country of origin. However it spread globally due to globalization.
Global marketplace = Increased risks
This means that global risks combined with rapidly evolving business conditions are prompting financial sector to turn to ERM. It is very important for Bahrain Financial sector to have ERM. Bahrain does international business with other, therefore it is effected by downturns and since no company can prevent an economic downturn, those who map out the steps they would take to respond to a downturn won't find themselves taking quick decisions which will ultimately affect the firm negatively.
1.3 Research Methodology
A questionnaire will be constructing and publish on Google document targeting only Bahraini financial sector. SPSS application will be utilized to analyze results. In addition, the questionnaire will measure how important of ERM factors to establish a good ERM practice. 1.4 Research Challenges
The goal of any firm is to achieve its objectives and create value; therefore each company has value chain which is divided into key and support activities. The company must be successful in each and every process in order to deliver a good result and achieve competitive advantage. Each of the processes in the value chain might result in more than five risks. If firms were not able to identify and put appropriate controls then all firms will end up bankrupt, in crisis, investor's dissatisfaction, etc. This research focuses on the importance of addressing key risks
which helps and organization understand accountability-who owns the risks and whether the risks are being properly monitored. Often, because companies are organized by function or geography and not by risk, the highest risks might not have designated risk owners or risk monitors. Risk Management is the responsibility of each and every staff. This research will allocate one full section which will be called \where it will mention what kind of risk will the bank face of proper ERM framework was not in place. 2. Literature Review
When EJ Smith (1912) was asked if he has encountered any risks during his 40 years experience he said \ship in distress.\However immediately after that SS Titanic sank. The accident demanded 1500 lives including that of Captain EJ Smith. This article highlights the importance of our subject which is Enterprise risk Management if (EJ Smith, 1912) though of some risks that could occur, then Titanic wouldn't have sunk. This article is too general and it has nothing to do with our ERM on financial sector in Bahrain, however it could help us understand that there are risks in each and every business, process, task, etc we do in our life and ERM should be considered whether it is a financial or non financial sector, however for the purpose of specificity, the research will focus only on the financial sector in Bahrain. This quote also shows that risks always exist and it has nothing to do with the current environment or crisis. In another article Ed O'Donnell, (2005) talked about the framework for ERM and he stated \guidelines establish objectives for event identification and suggest general procedures for identifying events that represent business risks.\identifying the root cause of the risk however here in ERM it is about identifying the root cause of the root cause. The Author is right as he mentioned that ERM task is to identify the risks which can stop us from achieving our objectives. The author wants companies to be proactive in identifying risks.
The project will also highlight the factors according to COSO framework and it will also highlight what type of risks the company is going to face if it didn't have ERM framework implemented. In Nocco, Brian W &Stulz, René M article published
on (2006) He state That \ERM adds value by ensuring that all material risks are owned and risk - return tradeoffs carefully evaluated, by operating managers and employees throughout the firm. \value to the firm if it was effective and the action points were implemented correctly. Also supports what (Ed O'Donnell, 2005) said in his article that ERM improves the performance of the firms which will ultimately add value to the firm \support for the general argument that organizations will improve their performance by employing the ERM concept\sector organization which uses ERM within strategic control process. (Rao, Ananth 2009) uses risk identification, risk assessment, value at risk as the quantitative risk assessment techniques. Rao recommends the implementation of COSO (2004) which focuses on the Internal controls, (Rao, Ananth 2009) research stated \demonstrates the prudence and practicality of the recommendations of COSO (2004) framework and Turnbull report for integrating the management of risk and organizational performance in general as part of a coherent approach to corporate governance.\going to focus on COSO frame work in financial institutions .this research will focus on all supply chain areas not only strategic.(Please refer to Challenges section in this research for more details). Arena, and Giovanni, (2010) stated that \form taken by firms' increasing efforts to organize uncertainty, which 'exploded' in the 1990s.\This project supports Arena and Giovanni article's that ERM &Risk Management are important and that is because uncertainty always exist, we agree with this article somehow because all our plans are for the future and as we know the only thing we are sure about the future is that many things might change in future so we are not certain .It is impossible to have no risk however by preparing ourselves and implementing ERM we can minimize it.
In the article above the researcher used longitudinal multiple case study however we are going to build a questionnaire to test if companies are aware with the concept of ERM and they are implementing effective ERM framework. We agree with the researcher as there is a strong link between risk management &business strategy
therefore financial institutions should maintain Disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan when doing their business strategy which ensures backup of all information and which reduces the safety hazards such us fire (Umbrella insurance). He also used the longitudinal multiple case study to make readers understand more about ERM process. Mark S. Beasley, Richard Clune, and Dana R. Hermanson,(2005) stated that \is little research on factors associated with the implementation of ERM. Research is needed to provide insights as to why some organizations are responding to changing risk profiles by embracing ERM and others are not.\Beasley, Richard Clune, and Dana R. Hermanson 2005) and it focuses on US, however as a result of our research and discussions with our managers we were informed that Bahraini corporations and specifically financial sector are aware of the ERM concept. It came to our attention that Central Bank of Bahrain force institutions to have independent auditors, however ERM is still grey area to many banks. We also noticed that now ERM factors are clearly defined, and frameworks have been established.
The following article supports the idea that if a company has established good risk management process then this will help it reduce the risk and therefore the cost of having consultants to check compliance against the Central Bank. We are going to test if banks in Bahrain maintain a compliance checklist against CBB rulebook and if there is adequate monitoring and follow up with this checklist .This will be tested as part of our questionnaire. Standard &Poor's Ratings Services( 2005 )\HP Compliance Suite for Financial Institutions is a collection of HP products, market offerings, and services that help financial services firms reduce the cost of achieving regulatory compliance, improve risk management capabilities, and also reduce the cost of sustaining compliance. This paper explains how with the Enterprise Risk Management component of its compliance suite, HP can help organizations\Craig Faris (2010) states \it can be a stimulating wake-up call.\call for many financial institutions which didn't give risk management attention; in our introduction we mentioned briefly that because of the financial crisis and scandals