Purpose: Many Industry 4.0 projects fail because impending sociotechnical risks are managed insufficiently. An indicator-based, sociotechnical risk monitoring can help to overcome this challenge. However, its effectiveness depends significantly on selecting appropriate risk indicators. This...

The systematic strategic planning on the national level aims to ensure the quality and uniformity of the strategic planning documents and to guide the participants of the strategic planning process to focus on development priorities and results at the national level. At the same time, it...

On-farm agricultural biodiversity conservation has long been recognized as a fundamental resource to the maintenance of ecologic and economic functions. Among the factors affecting biodiversity, institutional failures at different scales are reported as potential causes of biodiversity loss both...

Die jüngste Wirtschaftskrise hat vor Augen geführt, dass eine proaktive Vorausschau auf zukünttige Risiken und deren Berücksichtigung in den unternehmerischen Führungsprozessen von existenzieller Bedeutung ist. Für Industrieunternehmen gestaltet sich dies aufgrund des hohen Anteils nur...

Our article consists of the following 4 parts: - In the first part: documented the importance of credit risk with the presentation - analysis of the growth of 6 Greek major financial institutions loan portfolio, for the period 2001 to 2008 and comparison of the loan amount with their own funds...

An increasing number of hazardous natural phenomena is one of the results of climate change for Russia. Risks increase in coastal areas with high concentration of hazards and high density of population and economic activity. In 2012, an integrated damage from floods was about 1 billion euros;...

The entropic value of the production risk is closely linked to the farmer's aversion to this type of risk. Since risk aversion is difficult to quantify, it is preferable to use the MaxEnt model as a quantitative benchmark in assessing and covering the production risk through adequate financial...