Risk Taking : A Managerial Perspective /

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"Shapira offers a definitive account of the classical conception of risky decision making, which derives behavioral prescriptions from a calculation of both the value and the likelihood of possible outcomes. He then demonstrates how theories in this vein have been historically at odds with empi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shapira, Zur (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1995]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prise de risque.
Prise de decision.
Gestion du risque.
Risk management.
Risikomanagement
Entscheidungsprozess
Risk-taking (Psychology)
Decision making.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management
decision making.
risk management.
Risk-Taking
Decision Making
Risk Management
Risk-taking (Psychology).
Decision-making.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The role of risk in decision making
  • Characteristics of risk and risk taking
  • The study: methods and participants
  • The definition of risk
  • Attitudes toward risk
  • Dealing with risk
  • Cognitive aspects of risk taking
  • Incentives and risk taking
  • On the prospects for improving managerial risk taking.

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