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Risk identification in the infrastructure construction industry: a supply chain case study
Achard, Paola Olimpia; Nucciarelli, Alberto; Rosato, Roberto - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 1 (2008) 3/4, pp. 343-356
The objective of this article is to describe the risk identification within a supply chain of an infrastructure … construction project. This research is based on a case study of risk management within a supply chain in the infrastructure … construction industry. Data have been collected from an international company emphasising the stage of risk identification. A …
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Risk Propensity and Firm Performance: A Study of the Petroleum Exploration Industry
Walls, Michael R.; Dyer, James S. - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 7, pp. 1004-1021
This paper explores the differences in observed risk propensity among petroleum firms and their impact on firm … performance. In this work, we (1) develop a decision theoretic model which measures a firm's risk propensity in the form of an … "implied" utility function; (2) investigate changes in corporate risk propensity with respect to changes in firm size; and (3 …
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Profiting from product innovation: The impact of legal, marketing, and technological capabilities in different environmental conditions
Su, Zhongfeng; Xie, En; Liu, Hong; Sun, Wei - In: Marketing Letters 24 (2013) 3, pp. 261-276
Although product innovation is a key tool for firms competing in the marketplace, innovating firms often fail to obtain economic returns from their product innovations. This study examines the moderating effects of legal, marketing, and technological capabilities on the relationship between...
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Firm capability and performance in China: The moderating role of guanxi and institutional forces in domestic and foreign contexts
Shou, Zhigang; Chen, Jun; Zhu, Wenting; Yang, Lihua - In: Journal of Business Research 67 (2014) 2, pp. 77-82
This study examines the moderating effects of institutional forces on the capabilities–performance link by combining the resource-base view and institutional theory. From a survey of 324 Chinese manufacturers, this study tests the impacts of the importance of guanxi (an informal institutional...
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‘Grand Challenges to Global Mental Health’: Critical perspectives on the US-NIMH initiative
eSocialSciences - 2012
In 2011 the US National Institute of Mental Health launched the Grand Challenges to Global Mental Health on the lines of earlier initiatives on ‘Global Health’ and on ‘Global Chronic Non-Common-communicable diseases’. The Initiative that drew support from a number of...
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SMES COMPETITIVENESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES
Diana, Sala; Adina, Popovici; Nicolae, Bibu - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 699-702
In the related literature, there are many ways in which company competitiveness can be defined and understood. The purpose of this research is a better understanding of the SMEs competitiveness from the West Region of Romania. This study presents preliminary results of a research focussed on...
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Chancen und Risiken von CSR im Mittelstand
Icks, Annette; Levering, Britta; Maaß, Frank; Werner, Arndt - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2015
Responsibility) verbunden sind. Eine Vielzahl an Gefahren in CSR-aktiven Unternehmen - darunter das Risiko des Greenwashings - werden …
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Der zustandsabhängige Ansatz in der mathematischen Optimierung
Berg, Ernst - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 61 (2012) 1
Die starke Abhängigkeit von exogen determinierten Zuständen der Welt (Wetter, Krankheiten, Schädlinge etc.) ist konstituierendes Element der meisten landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsprozesse. Während diese Zustandsabhängigkeit auf der einen Seite eine Unsicherheitssituation entstehen lässt,...
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Die Behandlung der operationellen Risiken nach Basel II: Ein Anreiz zur Verbesserung des Risikomanagements?
Rünger, Petra; Walther, Ursula - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004
Risikomanagement der operationellen Risiken dürfte in Zukunft ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsfaktor sein. Im Rahmen der Neuregelung der … bankaufsichtsrechtlichen Vorgaben gemäß Basel II werden sowohl eine Eigenkapitalunterlegung als auch qualitative Vorgaben zum Risikomanagement … dieser Risikoklasse neu eingeführt. Erklärtes Ziel ist es, Anreize für ein verbessertes Risikomanagement zu setzen. Die …
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Stabilität von Diversifikationseffekten im Markowitz-Modell
Bissantz, Nicolai; Steinorth, Verena; Ziggel, Daniel - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 5 (2011) 2, pp. 145-157
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