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in an era of manufactured uncertainties". What this means is that institutions of social and cultural power have begun to manufact...

institutional influence and power) and the emergence of a risk-fixated consciousness (Beck, 2006). Under such conditions, it becom...

identify current and future training needs of the individual employees. The data gathered can be used to help with training and de...

budget risk or financial risk, with the potential that the cost will be greater than estimated (Nellis and Parker, 2006). With an ...

where the risk will not be shared by the entire market (Howells and Bain, 2007, p47). A basic tool that is often...

The writer looks at two different issues where there may be security concerns. In the first section security of airlines and airc...

The writer considers the position of a US firm considering undertaking FDI into the UK. The first part of the paper looks at why t...

The paper looks at three potential investments which may be undertaken by CADIM. The firm has a framework for assessing risk. The...

This 7 page paper gives an outline of the heart disease studies and risk factors. This paper includes the studies on risk factors ...

There are a number of techniques and methods organizations and businesses can use to mitigate risks. This essay discusses three me...

This research paper discusses the benefits and risks associated with medical marijuana use. The writer concludes in favor of presc...

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the role risk plays within financial markets. This paper includes the case of Bernard Madof...

This research paper presents to a student an example paper of how the student might discuss the student's personal risk for develo...

Risk has become a popular research topic in a number of different fields of study, each of which has its own theories. This paper ...

in 2005. Prior to this only 10% of electrical waste was recycled, this legislation makes manufacturers responsible of goods throug...

dividend signalling in order to communicate the managements faith and confidence in the future with the way that the dividend payo...

and total energy intake"), the researchers determined that lycopene, which was provided primarily from tomatoes, could be associat...

speculation, as such it is allowing for this extra risk. Where lenders seek to gain security of loans in the form of shares this m...

a matter of consensus that globalization, spurred on the rapid development of computerized communications technologies, has change...

of a high opportunity cost, but this is an aspect of planning and as such is not a specific risk that needs to be activity managed...

value would then be assessed as a result of the savings that were created less the costs of putting those savings in place. Increa...

dependent upon the abilities of those who undertake it to overcome any obstacles found along the way. In a sense, this is obvious,...

one of the most useful tools may be the use of hedging with the use of options. An option is a derivative contract; it is bought a...

the analysis of costs and risks associated with the project in question. When it comes to the development of a new website to driv...

of cost advantage... [and] ... sell a standards no frills product" (Porter, 1985; 13). This means that the cost to the firm of pro...

identified, evaluated and controlled." (Shildon Town Council, 2008). However the way that this is achieved in the context of proje...

The concept of risk management is fairly straightforward: It involves a "systematic approach to analyzing risk and implementing ri...

the home currency, but this may also have a cost, as it may limit customers, as it does not mitigate the total risk, it is shiftin...

There is not a scarcity of resources used to make steel, so there are not the same barriers of entry to the industry, nor are the ...

order to come to an uninformed answer to the research questions. Statistical analysis was not undertaken due to the inconsistenc...