Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, Anglia Ruskin University, language: English, abstract: This dissertation investigates the possible impacts of a crisis on a company s risk management and economic performance through a case study of the company BP and its Deepwater Horizon accident. The hence arisen findings can be divided into two categories. The first covers BP s risk management and performance before the disaster and the second category deals with the development of these factors after the disaster. The observed period was from 2005 to 2015 in order to see BP s developments five years before and after the crisis.