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Understanding risk : contributions from the journal of risk and governance /

During recent years, news headlines have been rife with criticisms of the risk management practices of public and private sector entities. These criticisms have often been accompanied by calls for greater transparency in the way government entities manage risks and communicate dangers to the public....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beck, Matthias, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, [2013]
Colección:Business economics in a rapidly-changing world series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Section A. Corporate Governance and Risk Management -- ch. 1. Signalling Characteristics and Information Content of Directors' Dealings on the London Stock Exchange / J. Steven Toms -- ch. 2. Asymmetric Response: Explaining Corporate Social Disclosure by Multinational Firms in Environmentally Sensitive Industries / John Hasseldine -- ch. 3. Cultural Theory of Risk and the Credit Crisis / Alexander P. Linsley -- ch. 4. Regulations, Risk, and Rent Seeking Behaviour / Urs Steiner Brandt. 
505 0 |a Ch. 5. Corporate Governance Disclosure and Its Effects on Performance and Profitability / Natalie Djodat -- ch. 6. Implementing Risk Management: A Study of Major Malaysian Corporations / Matthias Beck -- Section B International Relations -- ch. 7. Foreign Direct Investment and Country Risk: Is There Evidence of M̀align' Investment in Former Soviet States? / Nataliya Acc-Nikmehr -- ch. 8. Oil and Dependency: The Case of Kazakhstan / Matthias Beck -- ch. 9. Multinational Enterprises and Bargaining Power: Some Critical Reflections / Nataliya Acc-Nikmehr -- Section C Public Private Partnership. 
505 0 |a Ch. 10. Risks in Private Finance Initiative Projects: A Public Sector Perspective / Matthias Beck -- ch. 11. Does the UK Local Finance Improvement Trust (LIFT) Initiative Improve Risk Management in Public-Private Procurement? / Matthias Beck -- ch. 12. UK Public-Private Partnerships and the Credit Crunch: A Case of Risk Contagion? / Matthias Beck -- Section D Health, Safety and the Environment -- ch. 13. Risk and Health Policy: The Case of the UK National Health Service / Ian Greener -- ch. 14. Arsenic and Old Wool: An Early Example of the Precautionary Principle in the Risk Management Cycle or a Sheep in a Toxic Wolf's Clothing? / Andrew Watterson. 
505 0 |a Ch. 15. A Worker-Driven and Community-Based Investigation of the Health of One Group of Workers Exposed to Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) / Andrew Watterson -- ch. 16. Violence towards Mental Health Nurses in England and the Nature of the Policy Response: A Frame Analysis / Brodie Paterson -- ch. 17. Fire and Risk: The Controversy over the Role of Fire-Retardants in the World Trade Center Disaster / Geoffrey Tweedale -- ch. 18. Some are More Equal than Others: On How Health Workers Cope with Ideas that Seem Impossible to Practice / Roar Stokken. 
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