Operational risk and family business elements

Abstract

Operational Risk has been one of the most important risks to be regulated nowadays among companies. There are several factors that can impact this kind of risk; one of them is Family Business elements. By using a Bayesian framework these elements were taken into account to defined possible cau-sality relations between them and operational risk. In order to so a set of Mexican family companies with different sizes were considered, a set of experts from those companies was selected, Family Business elements that might impact were defined and a Bayesian Network for each type of com-pany was characterized. Results are: 1) There are family business theoreti-cal elements that impact on Operational risk, 2) The higher the presence of family elements within companies the lower the Operational Risk is, 3) There is an specific organizational structure depending on a company size that is in accordance with an specific Bayesian Network for measuring Operational Risk when Family Business elements are considere

El riesgo operacional ha sido uno de los riesgos más importantes a regular en la actualidad entre las empresas. Hay varios factores que pueden afectar este tipo de riesgo; uno de ellos son los elementos de la empresa familiar. Al utilizar un marco bayesiano, estos elementos se tuvieron en cuenta para definir las posibles relaciones de causalidad entre ellos y el riesgo operacio-nal. Para ello se consideró un conjunto de empresas familiares mexicanas con diferentes tamaños, se seleccionó un conjunto de expertos de esas em-presas, se definieron los elementos de empresa familiar que podrían im-pactar y se caracterizó una red bayesiana para cada tipo de empresa. Los resultados son: 1) existen elementos teóricos de la empresa familiar que in-ciden en el riesgo operacional, 2) cuanto mayor es la presencia de elementos familiares dentro de las empresas menor es el riesgo operacional, 3) existe una estructura organizativa específica en función de una empresa tamaño que está de acuerdo con una red bayesiana específica para medir el riesgo operacional cuando se consideran elementos de empresa familiar