scholarly journals The Factors Influencing the Enterprise Risk Management Practices and Firm Performance in Jordan and Malaysia

Future of uncertainty and risks in firm businesses and country-based economics remains continuous processes that need to be managed effectively and efficiently. Risks taking is a routine activity in all firms. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has now become an ultimate concern and a robust risk management approach in all financial and non-financial industries and other sectors throughout the globe. Firms are adopting ERM as a holistic strategy by putting its core components in practice to effectively manage all risks to protect the organizations and stakeholder value. The process of putting ERM into practice is only effective and efficient through identifying the factors that influence its practice in order to improve the firm performance. As a result of this reason, various factors influencing ERM were examined by different investigators as an indirect factor or as a parameter. However, only a few scholars studied it as a major factor or main objective, despite the risks remain a major issue influencing the goals of enterprises in all firm types in both Jordan and Malaysia. In order to fully consolidate the influencing factors on ERM practices, a comparative review of the available literature in Jordan and Malaysia were carried out to excavate the key influencing factors for direct identification in order to improve the firm performance. The factors identified were categorized into three groups; the management-based, firm-based, and ERMperformance-measurement-based factors. Each group of factors was found to influence the success of ERM strategies and practices in both Jordan and Malaysia. Jordan (Middle-East) and Malaysia (South-East Asia) shared a common characteristic of ERM adoptions and practices with regard to firm composition and risk management. Both countries are now pacing up to meet up with ERM practice challenges. Although, ERM still is a relatively new concept in several parts of Middle-East and SouthEast Asia. Though, Malaysia proved to have more improved and established ERM success factors and researches as compared to Jordan. Additionally, Malaysia was found to have more appeared ERM terms in the Board of Bursa Malaysia (BBM) Guidelines as well as ERM practices under different sectors from 2008 to 2018 compared to Jordanian Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). Thus, it appears that Malaysia has more robust ERM research works, adoptions, practices, and compliance system in place compared to what is obtainable in Jordan. In conclusion, firm managers in Jordan and Malaysia are highly recommended to use these ERM factors identified as strategic and to improve ERM practices in their organizations

Author(s):  
Kingsley Karunaratne Alawattegama

Enterprise risk management (ERM) has gained an increased attention among the corporate managers in the recent past as a strategic approach to managing risk. This study empirically verifies whether the adoption of ERM has an impact on firm performance and uses both primary and the secondary data relating to the insurance companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. Return on equity (ROE) is used as a proxy to measure the firm performance and multivariate regression analysis is used to analyze data. The findings of this study suggest that there is a weak positive relationship between the adoption of ERM practice and the return on equity. Out of the eight ERM functions assessed, only ‘event identification’ and ‘control activities’ show a weak positive relationship with ROE. Other ERM functions indicate that there is a weak negative relationship with ROE. The findings of this study contradict with some scholars who find there is a significant positive relationship between adoption of ERM and firm performance. Owing to the contradictory nature of the findings, this study induces corporate managers to pay a close attention to the cost-benefits analysis when designing and implementing ERM system and not to heavily invest and extensively relied upon ERM as a vehicle for creating long-term shareholder value.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Habil Slade Ogalo

This study was aimed to measure the impact of enterprise risk management practices on firm performance following the moderation of staff competence. The present study proposed five hypotheses, three direct and two moderating. For measuring hypotheses and objectives, the current research targeted bank officers in the Kingdom of Bahrain's banking sector. A total final sample of 349 was used in primary analyses selected through simple random sampling. Current research shows significant positive effects of risk culture and risk knowledge sharing on the firm`s (financial and non-financial) performance of banks in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Similarly, the first moderation strengthens the relationship between risk knowledge sharing and firm performance through staff competence. In addition, the second moderation hypothesis does not strengthen the relationship between risk culture and firm performance with the moderating effect of staff competence. The current research findings are supported under the resource-based view with several theoretical and practical implications for researchers and industry practitioners.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Mazurina Mohd Ali ◽  
Nur Shazwani Ab Hamid ◽  
Erlane K Ghani

This study aims to examine the relationship between enterprise risk management (ERM) implementation and firm performance in Malaysia. Using the sample from 2010 to 2016, this study examines the relationship between ERM and firm performance among Malaysian top 100 public listed firms registered on the Index FTSE Bursa Malaysia 100 (FBM100) KLSE. This study also provides comparisons before and after the introduction of Bursa Malaysia Guidelines 2013. This study shows a positive and significant coefficient between profitability and firm performance towards ERM implementation. However, this study shows insignificant relationship between firm size, financial leverage and audit firm with firm performance. This study also shows that there is an increase in the mean score and standard deviation of these variables after the implementation of Bursa Malaysia Guideline 2013. The findings in this study provides an understanding to the Malaysian public listed firms on the importance of ERM and subsequently, maximise the benefits of ERM especially after the introduction of Bursa Malaysia Guidelines 2013 for the benefits of their stakeholders and regulatory improvement in future.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Zaleha Abdul Rasid ◽  
Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman

Tujuan kertas kerja ini adalah untuk melaporkan hasil kajian terhadap amalan perakaunan pengurusan dan amalan pengurusan risiko di institusi kewangan. Data dikutip menggunakan borang soal selidik yang dihantar kepada 106 institusi kewangan yang tersenarai di dalam website Bank Negara Malaysia, di mana Ketua Pegawai Kewangan atau pegawai terkanan di jabatan kewangan institusi–institusi tersebut dilantik sebagai responden kajian. Analisis amalan perakaunan pengurusan berdasarkan kerangka IFAC (1998) menunjukkan bahawa amalan yang lazim diguna pakai adalah amalan di peringkat pertama, diikuti dengan amalan selepas era 1995. Dapatan ini menunjukkan bahawa amalan perakaunan pengurusan tradisional masih diguna pakai secara meluas oleh institutsi-institusi kewangan di Malaysia walapun amalan–amalan kontemporari (peringkat ke 4 dan ke atas) telah diperkenalkan. Bagi amalan pengurusan risiko, kebanyakan institusi telah melaksanakan kerangka Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) secara menyeluruh atau sebahagian. Amalan perakaunan pengurusan berkaitan penyata kewangan dan analisis nisbah dianggap sebagai memberikan sumbangan utama kepada pengurusan risiko. Kawalan belanjawan, belanjawan dan pengurusan strategik juga dianggap penting dalam pengurusan risiko operasi. Kata kunci: Perakaunan pengurusan; pengurusan risiko; institusi kewangan The aim of this paper is to report the results of a study on management accounting and risk management practices in financial institutions. The research method involved administering a questionnaire to 106 financial institutions listed on the Malaysian Central Bank’s website and the respondents were the chief financial officers (CFO) or the most senior positions in the finance department of the institutions. Based on the IFAC’s (1998) framework, it was found that the most widely practiced were the management accounting practices at Stage 1, followed by practices of Post 1995. This finding shows that despite the emergence of contemporary management accounting practices (Stage 4 onwards), traditional management accounting that focuses on financial performance and budgetary control is still widely practiced by financial institutions in Malaysia. As for the risk management practices, most of the firms have either implemented a complete or partial Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework. The findings from the survey showed that management accounting practices related to financial statement and ratio analysis were perceived to contribute most towards risk management. Budgetary control, budgeting and strategic planning were also perceived to be important in managing operational risks. Key words: Management accounting; risk management; financial institutions


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Hafizah Zainol Abidin ◽  
Siti Zaleha Abdul Rasid ◽  
Haliyana Khalid ◽  
Rohaida Basiruddin ◽  
Shathees Baskaran

Enterprise risk management (ERM) is used to manage, integrate and aggregate all types of risks encountered by the concerned organisation. Despite having established framework and guidelines, the implementation of ERM at divisional level seemed to be lacking. There are gaps in the actual risk management practices that need to be studied and narrowed to ensure a more effective implementation of risk management. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify characteristics of effective risk management practices and to gauge the effectiveness level at a telecommunication company. The gaps between the actual practices and the expected practices based on twenty-four (24) identified characteristics are identified and compared upon before recommendations are made to close the gaps and further enhance the risk management practices. For the purpose of this research the self-administered, web-based questionnaires were distributed to a total number of 130 engineers who were actively involved with network infrastructure planning, development and maintenance. The feedbacks received indicated that the respondents agreed with the identified characteristics of effective risk management practices and generally agreed that the effectiveness level of current risk management practices in the company is moderate or average. Furthermore, the gap analysis based on the variances indicates that there are rooms for further improvement. The study is important for more effective risk management practices in telecommunication companies. 


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McShane

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the evolution of enterprise risk management (ERM) out of fragmented disciplinary perspectives to provide a foundation for promoting interdisciplinary research and proposes a design science approach for more effective ERM implementation in organizations. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper synthesizes ERM research and practice from multiple disciplines. Findings Corporate risk management concepts were born in academic finance and developed further in the finance subset known as risk management and insurance. With the advent of ERM, efforts must broaden beyond applying statistical models to quantifiable risks. Other disciplines have expanded ERM research by embracing techniques to investigate risk management practices to produce knowledge that integrates practice and theory. ERM is promoted as integrated risk management, yet silos still remain in both practice and research. Originality/value This study provides a foundation and a proposal for moving ERM past academic and organizational silos, which is necessary to achieve the ERM philosophy and increase organizational resilience. Understanding the evolution and fragmented nature of ERM research and practice provides a foundation for interdisciplinary cooperation necessary to achieve the holistic ERM philosophy. A next frontier is effective ERM implementation. This paper argues for an organizational design science approach for mitigating the resistance to change that confounds effective implementation of ERM in organizations facing an increasingly uncertain environment and outlines future research for applying the approach to implementing the ISO 31000 risk management process.


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