health. At the time of the analysis, only those respondents with the highest dependency level were covered by the recently …

professionals’ literature together with a theory of affordances to examine how and when technology allows change in healthcare … cultural–institutional context, in our case a professional context of use. Second, that technological affordance of change is …

Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce …

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …' rankings of uncertain prospects in terms of risk and their relationship to individual preferences. We examine three interlinked … propositions that are fundamental to the standard economic approach to risk: (i) that rankings by risk are simply the reverse of …

recreational risk-taking). In addition, perceived costs and benefits mediated the relations between personality and risk-taking in … the five domains (social, ethical, gambling, recreational and investment risk-taking). Evidence for a mechanism that …

Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …

To what extent does economic analysis of climate change depend on low-probability, high-impact events? This question …

Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard … axioms of distributional comparison. Moreover, there are significant differences in the 'maps' of inequality and risk …