This paper presents an entrepreneurial optimal business plan in which optimal consumption and portfolio rules, and optimal exit strategy for an entrepreneur are jointly determined in the presence of undiversifiable idiosyncratic risk. We find that the entrepreneur is more likely to exit from her...

The uncertainty management theory has become well established over the last 20-30 years. However, the authors suggest that it does not fully address why opportunities often remain unexploited. Empirical studies show a stronger focus on mitigating risks than exploiting opportunities. This paper...

Background: To stay competitive in a highly unpredictable market of today, companies must be able to manage project risks effectively. The basis for an effective risk management is a thorough risk analysis. Despite the availability of many different risk analysis approaches, companies can be...

Project-competence has a role in perceived risk. Our research objective was to detect project-actors' presumptions about performance risk in relation to the supplier's expected performance. We investigated investment projects with significant and insignificant tangible content. By exploring...

We study how investments that require long-term financial commitments are affected by undiversifiable, uninsurable risk in the economic environment in the context of investor preferences characterized by decreasing absolute risk aversion and a desire for consumption smoothing. In our setting, if...

This work aimed to study and analysis the various risk associated with different environment. The selected method consists of market risks and operating risks. The approach used in this paper is proved to be practical and useful in the decision-making process of capital budgeting and investment...

Several firms make business decisions based on risk specifications or estimates provided by domain-experts. But research on whether the format of risk specifications systematically affects decision making in multi-dimensional environments is scarce. Using laboratory experiments, we show that...

Model contracts play a principal role in reducing transaction costs. They offer parties a series of rules, which allocates risk so that delays, disagreements, over-expenditures, and under-capitalizations can be managed (or avoided altogether). The best model contracts are highly responsive,...

Procurement auctions are sometimes plagued with a chosen supplier's failing to accomplish a project successfully. The risk of project failure is considerable, especially when the buyer has inadequate information about suppliers ex ante and the project can only be evaluated at the end. To manage...