Benchmarking ISO Risk Management Systems to Assess Efficacy and Help Identify Hidden Organizational Risk

Svana Helen Björnsdottir, Pall Jensson, Saemundur E. Thorsteinsson, Ioannis M. Dokas and Robert J. de Boer
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Svana Helen Björnsdottir: Department of Engineering, Reykjavik University, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Pall Jensson: Department of Engineering, Reykjavik University, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Saemundur E. Thorsteinsson: Department of Engineering, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Ioannis M. Dokas: Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 69100 Komotini, Greece
Robert J. de Boer: Department of Engineering, SDO University of Applied Sciences, 3142 GC Maassluis, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-33

Abstract: The overall aim of this article is to contribute to the further development of the area of benchmarking in risk management. The article introduces a two-step benchmarking model to assess the efficacy of ISO risk management systems. It furthermore aims at verifying its usefulness in terms of finding hidden risk issues and improvement opportunities. The existence of all key elements of an ISO 31000-based risk management system is examined at the beginning of this study. Then, the quality in terms of efficacy of important aspects of the risk management system is examined in more detail with special benchmarks. The application of the model to six ISO-certified organizations follows and reinforces the novelty of this study, which is to combine risk science knowledge with benchmarking theory in the application of ISO risk management standards in organizations. The results show that the benchmarking model developed in this study provides rigor when assessing and evaluating the efficacy of an ISO risk management system. By applying the model, risk issues and risk factors can be found that had not previously been identified. The findings are of importance for risk management, the benchmarking science, and for the development of ISO risk management standards.

Keywords: risk management; benchmarking; ISO risk management systems; ISO 31000 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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