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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 …
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Purpose – The authors of this paper contend that too many firms' innovation initiatives are shackled with archaic budgeting and planning methodologies that are intended to protect managers from the embarrassment of blown budgets, missed deadlines, or market flops but instead suppress learning...
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Purpose This paper investigates how contemporary public policy for public-private partnerships (PPPs) deals with non-financial values and thereby shapes the way social, cultural and environmental issues are accounted for. Design/methodology/approach A case study critically analyses PPP policy in...
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. A secondary aim is to investigate how a distinctive conceptualization of perceived risk, consisting of two types … (outcome risk and psychosocial risk), affects service purchase decision involvement. A conceptual model incorporating these … service purchase decision involvement and tie strength. Also, results highlight the complexity of the perceived risk construct …
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and its relation with the risk profile of a firm. The literature on the cost of debt determinants generally documents a … negative association between measures of the risk of the firm and its cost of debt. The literature on CSR defines risk … relation between CSP and cost of debt, demonstrating that CSR is not a value driver with an impact on the firm’s risk profile …
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sometimes actually take lives. States risk is the precursor of crisis or, put another way, behind crisis lies a wrongly … identified risk assessment. Looks at how the world has changed with regard to risk containment. Concludes that, even with a much …
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. Contrasts the mechanistic process of ‘managing’ with all its overtones of risk reduction and keeping the show on the road. Lists …
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Discusses the rise in kidnappings from 6,000 a year in the 1980s to between 20,000 and 25,000 worldwide in the late 1990s. Illustrates which countries are most likely for kidnaps to happen in and the various outcomes for victims (some of whom were killed). Lays down various techniques for the...
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States human progress demands risk‐taking but, conversely, managing risk in projects is always critical to success …. Proposes that managers must make project risk management explicit and make identification of risks a priority. Recommends that …
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