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In any environment which allows for individual and group enterprise, some degree of risk as well as elements of … uncertainty and expectation will be features of virtually every human endeavour. These three decision‐making categories are … theoretical scrutiny as well as empirical investigation of their incidence and relevance in economic life. Analysis of risk …
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Behavioral studies show that people are subject to biases in general. Studies in the behavioral finance literature mostly focus on finance professionals and top level managers, and report similar results. This study focuses on professionals outside of the finance industry and who are of lower...
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People in a variety of settings can be heard uttering the phrase that “knowledge is power” or the relatively equivalent concept that “information is power.” However, the research literature in particular lacks a simple and standardized way to examine the relationship between knowledge...
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inherent uncertainty of the organizational problem being faced. Practical implications – The model suggests that a primary …
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Aims to explore the nature of uncertainty in budgetary decision making in three local authorities in the UK … (Staffordshire, Shropshire and Derbyshire). Results show that these authorities have been experiencing great uncertainty during the … 1980s. The source of such uncertainty is traceable to the effect of Central Government policies and the general economic …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate entrepreneurs’ investment decisions under uncertainty in … hope increase the propensity to continue investments as do increased level of uncertainty. Embarrassment and strain do not … increase this propensity, however, high uncertainty decreases the propensity to continue investments. In contrast to the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate commitment escalation tendencies and magnitude in groups of entrepreneurship-minded decision makers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a software-based management simulation to expose 447 graduate business students in the USA...
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valuated using the model. Findings – Option pricing can provide risk-neutral quantified value whether an apartment building … approach proposed in this study risk-neutrally calculates the value appreciation from the range of the potential values. This …
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Purpose – Competition in dynamic markets requires operational excellence and effective operations strategy. Hence, organizations have to evaluate their operational performance in comparison to their rivals. The purpose of this paper is to present an operational performance evaluation framework...
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Explores the concept of uncertainty in marketing decision making. Offers a structure of a decision dilemma with advice …. Argues that such an approach is preferable to hesitating due to fear of uncertainty.  …
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