1. International risk management

1.1 Risk positioning in an internationalized company

The results of a survey of companies employing between 50 and 500 people, published a few years ago by "Marsh", an international insurance company, showed that :

• French managers felt they were less familiar with the risks to which they were exposed than an external consultant, while the majority of German managers felt the opposite;

• competition was not perceived as a major risk by these French leaders, unlike all other European leaders;

• the Germans and the English felt that poaching their staff was a major risk, especially internationally (more than 8/10);

• French companies had the...