International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management  (IJBCRM)
ISSN (Online): 1758-2172  -  ISSN (Print): 1758-2164

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

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   Objectives

The goal of IJBCRM is to provide an academic and professional forum to develop and disseminate research, practical methods, theories, and experiences in the developing area of business continuity and risk management. This growing body of knowledge is vital to lead an organisation in the process of systematic decisions to protect people, assets and operations and to ensure the survivability of an organisation from disaster. A broad spectrum of threats, vulnerabilities and risks will be addressed and the most useful strategies and plans to prevent and mitigate disaster will be addressed.

   Readership

Professionals, academics, researchers, planners, managers, and policy makers.

   Contents

IJBCRM publishes scholarly research, methodological articles, review papers, case studies, conference reports, book reviews, educational approaches, and news. Special issues are devoted to important topics falling within the scope of business continuity and risk management.

   Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:

• Professional Practices of Business Continuity
• Project initiation and management
• Risk assessment
• Feasibility analyses for control alternatives
• Business impact analysis
• Business continuity strategies
• Coordinating emergency operations
• Developing and implementing a business continuity plan
• Testing and maintaining business continuity capabilities
• Training and awareness
• Crisis communications
• Coordination with external agencies
• Disaster recovery
• Business continuity software
• Infrastructure Crisis and Public Policy
• Failing transportation infrastructure
• Energy transmission grid shortfall
• Data network infrastructure
• Infrastructure investment and economic activity
• Successful public-private partnerships
• Risk Management and Decision Technology
• Risk management modelling software
• Modeling risk decisions with imprecise information
• Attitudinal based strategy development
• Computational intelligence for mitigating disasters
• Disaster management using fuzzy modeling
• Visualisation
• Intelligent agents
• Simulation and gaming
• Knowledge management
• Natural Resources and Environmental Threats
• Energy shortage
• Enterprise sustainability
• Globalisation and development issues
• Global climate change
• Sustainable land use management
• Environment, health and safety
• Natural disasters
• Crisis Leadership and Organisational Resiliency
• Natural, technological, industrial, and terrorism events
• Influenza pandemic
• Threats of offshoring and outsourcing
• Supply chain management risk
• Reputation risk management
• Governance, risk and regulatory compliance
• Role of insurance
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Uncertainty in the global economy
• Investment risk
• Worldwide competition
• Foreign exchange risk
• Accounting and financial compliance
• Interest rate risk
• Operational quality assurance
• Credit risk
• Internal control
• Risk maturity model
• Crisis Management Information Systems
• Emergency information systems
• Geographical information systems
• Health information systems
• Crisis detection and decision making
• Sensor networks
• Virtual organisations
• Homeland Security and Organisational Threats
• Agroterrorism
• Bioterrorism
• Cyberterrorism
• Critical technology management
• Border and port security
• Weapons of mass destruction
• Transportation security
• Systems Security for Business Resiliency
• Hazards of information and communications technologies
• Information privacy and identity theft
• Security issues of internet commerce
• Operating systems security
• Applications security
• Database security
• Web security
• Physical security
• Computer network security
• Encryption in information systems security

   Specific Notes for Authors


Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Prof. Kurt J. Engemann

Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board


Editor in Chief

Prof. Kurt J. Engemann
Iona College
Center for Business Continuity and Risk Management
Hagan School of Business
New Rochelle NY 10801
USA
kengemann@iona.edu



Editorial Board Members

Prof. Benigno E. AguirreBe
University of Delaware
Disaster Research Center
87 E. Main Street
Newark, DE 19716
USA

Prof. Terje AvenTe
University of Stavanger
Department of Industrial Economics, Risk Management and Planning
4036 Stavanger
NORWAY

Dr. Paul BarnesPa
Queensland University of Technology
School of Management
Brisbane Qld 4001
AUSTRALIA

Prof. Edward BorodziczEd
University of Portsmouth
Centre for Risk, Crisis and Security Management
Portsmouth Business School
Richmond Building, Portland Street
Portsmouth, PO1 3DE
UK

Dr. Stefan BremSt
Federal Office for Civil Protection
Risk Analysis and Research Coordination
Monbijoustrasse 51A
3003 Bern
SWITZERLAND

Prof. Frank FiedrichFr
George Washington University
Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management
1776 G. St., N.W. (Suite 101)
Washington, D.C. 20052
USA

Prof. Simon FrenchSi
The University of Manchester
Manchester Business School
Booth Street West
Manchester M15 6PB
UK

Prof. Dr. Jutta GeldermannJu
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5 (Raum 1704)
D-37073 Göttingen
GERMANY

Gian Di GiambattistaGi
Director of Emergency Management
Ontario Power Generation
700 University Avenue, H19
Toronto, ON M5G 1X6
CANADA

Prof. Akira IshikawaAk
Crisis Management Society of Japan
Aoyama Gakuin University
4-4-25 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-8366
JAPAN

Prof. Theresa JeffersonTh
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Center for Security, Technology and Policy
Blacksburg, VA 24061
USA

Dr. Phil KellyPh
Liverpool John Moores University
Information Management and Systems
Liverpool Business School
98 Mount Pleasant
Liverpool, L3 5UZ
UK

Prof. James H. LambertJa
Associate Director, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems
University of Virginia
Department of Systems and Information Engineering
PO Box 400747
Charlottesville, VA 22904
USA

Prof. Holmes E. MillerHo
Muhlenberg College
Department of Accounting, Business, and Economics
2400 Chew Street
Allentown, PA 18104-5586
USA

Prof. Shirish SangleSh
Assistant Professor of Sustainable Business
National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
Corporate Environmental Management
Vihar Lake, Powai
Mumbai-400087
INDIA

Prof. Yossi SheffiYo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Transportation and Logistics
Engineering Systems Division
1 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

Dr. Matt StatlerMa
New York University
International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP)
113 University Place, 9th Floor
New York, NY 1000
USA

Prof. George A. ZsidisinGe
Bowling Green State University
Department of Management
College of Business Administration
Bowling Green, OH 43403
USA


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