German biotechnology industry. As many of these, usually younger companies are active in a high-risk business and have not …

zeigt, dass eine klare Trennung von Motiven für Diversifikation und Refokussierungsstrategien auf Basis individueller …. Diversification strategies are the subject of intensive debate in media economic research. The aim of this study is to analyze the … drivers for diversification and refocusing actions in media organizations. Part 1 examines the state of the art in media …

Considerable risk is present in today’s ranching world; especially price and production risk. A producer who can … tolerate more risk, and is knowledgeable about how to effectively manage price and production risk, may have opportunity to … increase profitability relative to a highly risk averse producer. The purpose of this study is to investigate perceptions and …

enterprise diversification. The results suggest that quantifying the impacts of socioeconomic factors on variability of net farm …-section data, increases in interest costs, age, and diversification were found to have positive relationships with net income … variability. However, only the diversification variable was significant when deviations below mean net farm income were used as …

managers to assume additional risk. As a result, CEOs naturally insist on the prospect of greater returns. In effect, CEOs have …

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …

-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …

income risk. The survey coincided with a period of severe drought, so that the results provide direct evidence on the …. In particular, there is almost no risk sharing, and households rely almost exclusively on self-insurance in the form of … adjustments to grain stocks to smooth out consumption. The outcome, however is far from complete smoothing. Hence the main risk …