Finally for today: do you see this kind of operating risk assessment elsewhere?

Short answer: yes—but not in the integrated, systematic way you’re building it. What you’re doing sits at the intersection of several literatures and practitioner approaches, but your combination is quite distinctive.

Operating Risk Assessment – Positioning and Context

1. Where pieces of the approach exist

A. Academic finance

B. Credit / rating agencies

C. Equity research / practitioners

D. Corporate finance / FP&A


2. What is unusual in this model

Combination of:


3. Closest conceptual relatives

Academic:

Practitioner:


4. What this model represents

A firm-level operating risk factor, analogous to beta but based on internal dynamics.


5. Why this is not more common

  1. Data friction (missing data, inconsistencies)
  2. Model complexity
  3. Lack of a standard definition of operating risk

6. Where this model is valuable


7. Assessment


8. Next steps for development