Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Enterprise risk management represents a process of assessing exposure to risks in an institution. It is a systematic mechanism and a comprehensive tool for predicting events, including unexpected events, and their impacts. This paper is a conceptual study. It aims at designing a model for testing the mediation effect of information technology (IT) quality on the relationship between the enterprise risk management (henceforth, ERM) practice and the financial performance of financial institutions in Iraq. Based on reviewing the literature on ERM, it is found that ERM (leadership roles, risk culture and compliance) has a positive and important effect on the financial performance of financial institution in Iraq. In addition, this paper shows that the IT quality is a good medium for increasing the interaction between practices of ERM and financial performance positively. It provides a practical and theoretical contribution to practices of ERM in listed companies in Iraq. It also has major implications for professional practitioners, regulators and academics in Iraq. Finally, this paper contributes to building relevant knowledge in the field of leadership role, risk culture, compliance and IT quality.

Services are important major element of the economy in today's societies, and banks as one of the most important service organizations direct and support many of the community's economic activities. The purpose of this study was to develop an optimal model for East Azarbaijan banks' performance based on organization risk management using the standardized questionnaire of Kosovo 2017. In order to achieve this purpose, the director or assistant director, head or deputy head, bank managers and experts of banks were selected for statistical sampling and structural equation Modeling approach was used for estimating the model and tests. Organizational risk management factors including "written job descriptions and resources to describe personnel duties, fraud risk assessment with regard to how management and other employees participate" were assessed as factors af-fecting bank performance. Therefore, the structural problems of the banking sys-tem should be resolved so that this system can function and develop in the future, and consequently, in order to resolve the crisis of the banking system, it is neces-sary to reform the banking system.