Knowledge Management, Risk Management, Knowledge Risk Management: What Is Missing (or Messed) in Financial and Banking S
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the state of research on Knowledge Risk Management in banks and other financial firms. In particular, the chapter is aimed at verifying the shortage of research contributions on Knowledge Risk Management with
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Risk in Banking
Maura La Torre
Risk in Banking Developing a Knowledge Risk Management Framework for Cooperative Credit Banks
Maura La Torre University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara Pescara, Italy
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Preface
Writing this book allowed me to merge my theoretical knowledge with reflections on real world challenges. My studies led me to have a mainly technical background. I approached financial system by analyzing its elements and interrelationships within it and toward the external environment. I have considered banks as the place of exchanging financial resources, the place where financial needs of the various operators of the economic system are met. Subsequently, I broadened my vision, considering banks also as social organizations, and no longer just immaterial brokerage places. By studying authors such as Peter Massingham and Susanne Durst, I understood the usefulness of overcoming technicalities and paying more attention to the human aspect of these organizations, finding that behind every financial operation, there are people who create and exchange knowledge, or waste it, or lose it, or hide it, or forget it or even unlearn it. I understood, therefore, that knowledge could generate risks just as a financing operation can do; a particular type of risk, the knowledge risks. Analyzing contributions on this field, I was surprised by the effort to find studies specif
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