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‐structured “messy” problems. Reviews the literature on risk to identify the techniques and concepts used in the management of risk and … concepts according to their use and holistic qualities. Briefly describes a systems approach to failures. As risk is associated … with uncertainty and ill‐structured problems, suggests that systems thinking could be a valuable aid to risk management.  …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the key risk components (probability and consequence) and their … between the major risk sources and to fathom the risk/disruption impact on agri-food supply chain performance in Ghana. Design …-food supply chain were categorized using the risk matrix scale and classification described in the Project Management Body of …
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. The level of risk, the growth and the profitability, characteristics that we consider very important in order to determine …
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Purpose – Current research in the area of risk management within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) appears … predisposed towards risk, predominantly dealing with the willingness of SMEs to take on losses. However, in this pilot study, the … authors aim to focus on a different aspect of risk management in SMEs, namely the risk preferences. Risk preferences in this …
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one-off survey may be inadequate for fully exploring an area such as risk. Especially if the risks are hard to assess and …
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Ethnic consumers arriving in an ethnically diverse nation such as Australia are likely to have a limited knowledge of the marketplace. Combined with possible communication difficulties, constrained decision making may result when selecting both products and suppliers. Services are significantly...
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designed to examine the relationship between perceived risk and type of service relationship. It also examined outcomes … relationships have the highest perceptions of category risk and the lowest perceptions of specific provider risk. The results also …
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The marketing literature suggests that product intangibility is positively associated with perceived risk and the … this research is to test which dimension of the intangibility construct is the most correlated with perceived risk. A … mental dimension of intangibility accounts for more variance in the perceived risk construct than the other two dimensions …
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perceptions of risk associated with the purchase of consumer services.  …
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Because services cannot be stored, temporary imbalances between supply and demand present a difficult challenge for managers of service firms. Though marketing and management strategies for dealing with foreseen disequilibrium situations are discussed, focuses primarily on stratagems for dealing...
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