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To successfully market their products, industrial vendors must determine who participates in an organizational purchase decision and what their influence is. Previous research has shown that participation and influence can vary across products and purchase situations. Though industrial marketing...
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infrastructure projects in more than 85 countries. PPPs are a procurement methodology that brings a rigorous risk-weighted approach … number of significant improvements in major project procurement and improved public service delivery. This paper considers … volatility and uncertainty in the capital markets in Australia will affect the feasibility of privately financed infrastructure …
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?lens? is needed that can act as a guiding process for strategy creation and tactical fulfilment. In order to engage and …
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purpose of life insurance and annuities is to hedge against the risk that one will die early or late. The present value of the … people to buy more. Insurance is a hedge, not a bet. And it makes no sense to hedge more risk than you have. …
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. 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 …
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two questions from the decision making literature. First, what determines how much uncertainty a firm has when investing … data, support was found for the Bounded Rationality hypothesis; firms have less uncertainty about an acquisition … hypothesis; firms whose prior machines perform below aspiration levels seek more uncertainty in their subsequent acquisitions …
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Energy prices have exhibited significant volatility in recent years. For example, natural gas pricesranged from $4 to $15 per MM BTU's in calendar years 2005 through 2011. Future prices are uncertainbut are likely to retain a high level of volatility. This volatility complicates analysis of...
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variables were significant. The major focus of the study -- differences between individual and group-assisted risk evaluations … role. Based on the results of this study, it appears that the accounting firm wishing to suppress risk in its evaluations …
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certainty, risk, or uncertainty, the software outputs match with the results of actual highway programming at least 85 percent … physical highway assets or system usage only under certainty or risk, this research focuses on the management of an entire … highway network that also incorporates tradeoff decisions involving uncertainty. Systemwide multiattribute utility functions …
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