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Forum on Building Resilience to Fragility in Asia and the Pacific: Proceedings
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013
representatives from development partners and civil society organizations during the Forum on Building Resilience to Fragility in Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890138
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Kazakhstan Country Gender Assessment
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2006
This report reviews Kazakhstan’s progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, and focuses particularly on gender issues in the Asian Development Bank’s operations in transport, urban development, and support for entrepreneurship. Since the previous assessment in 2006,...
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An overview of US state drought plans: crisis or risk management?
Fu, Xinyu; Svoboda, Mark; Tang, Zhenghong; Dai, Zhijun; … - In: Natural Hazards 69 (2013) 3, pp. 1607-1627
the proactive risk management approach toward building drought resilience. No study so far has empirically examined how …
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Workplace resources for crisis management: implications for public-private sector planning, policy and response to disasters
Vineburgh, Nancy T.; Benedek, David M.; Fullerton, Carol S. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 3 (2008) 5/6, pp. 378-388
preparedness influences family and community preparedness and impacts population health, safety and resilience. Workplace crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670211
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Governing global risks: The evolution of policy capacity in the financial sector
Pauly, Louis W. - Abteilung "Global Governance", Wissenschaftszentrum … - 2014
Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the politi-cal capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980642
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How The Simplification of Work Can Degrade Safety: A Gas Company Case Study
Blazsin, Hortense; Guarnieri, Franck; Martin, Christophe - HAL - 2013
Work is focused on a gas company that wishes to develop a better understanding of its safety culture and identify potential enhancement opportunities. The hypothesis that emerged from an exploratory phase of work suggests that the corporate restructuring initiated four years ago, which has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898775
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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 3 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998677
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Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Risk Management
Adam, Tim R.; Fernando, Chitru S.; Golubeva, Evgenia - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2012
, also affects corporate risk management. We find that managers increase their speculative activities using derivatives …
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The Moderating Effects of Family Control on the Relation between Managerial Overconfidence and Earnings Management
Li, I-Cheng; Hung, Jung-Hua - In: Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies … 16 (2013) 02, pp. 1350010-1
manager dealings and determine the following: First, overconfident managers are more likely to engage in earnings management …
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Does managerial overconfidence matter in explaining debt financing policy?
Boubaker, Sabri; Hamza, Taher - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 4, pp. 2324-2339
small French companies listed during 2003–2012, we show that overconfident owner–managers opt for less levered financing … structures than their non-owner peers. Additional analysis shows that owners–managers are less likely to use debt in the presence … of growth opportunities. Managers who are optimistic about future performance consider their firms to be undervalued and …
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