to provide an understanding of the consumer uncertainty and risk that affect purchase intention in this family dynamic …. Design/methodology/approach – This study focuses on the psychological dimensions of risk to examine consumer uncertainty as … that adoptive parents as consumers largely associate the uncertainty and risk involved with making purchases for a new …

Purpose – This study aims to examine whether movies are pivotal in developing empathy, nostalgia, perceived risk, place … performance/financial risk associated with visiting New York than the control group. However, perceived risk played no significant …

The “risk society” presents a considerable challenge to current understanding of the question of risk and the task of … organisational leadership. Beck has proposed that we, in late modernity, are moving from an industrial society to a risk society …, which requires a corresponding shift from modernism to reflexive modernism. A brief discussion of the risk compensation …

careers. Other factors which discriminate between the groups are the degree of risk taking, innovation and political style …

efficient hazard mitigation at various levels. This can help in increasing the resilience among communities at risk by enabling …

by the poor, the need for effective means of understanding and managing urban risk is immense. This paper explores the … existence and variability of fire risk in the informal settlement of “Imizamo Yethu”, an informal settlement situated in Cape … Town, South Africa. The case study mainly analyses the factors influencing the conditions of risk. It highlights the need …

efficient performance mechanisms in relation to the management of disaster risk. Focusing on the immediate response, most of … local institutions thus becomes obvious, as well as the lack of technological instruments for risk reduction. On the other … hand, from the point of view of the relationship between science and technology with regard to the problem of risk, more …

Any time a company significantly changes the way it does things, there is "process risk," i.e., the risk that the … manage process risk explains why most major change initiatives ultimately fail. Process risk can take several forms. Four …