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Why Managers and Companies Take Risks
Les Coleman
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Description for Why Managers and Companies Take Risks
Paperback. When managers and companies face a decision with two outcomes that are safe and risky, what leads them to choose the risky alternative? This book answers this question. It presents real-world evidence using two surveys of senior managers and directors to analyze why they take risks, and how companies control risks. Series: Contributions to Management Science. Num Pages: 349 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, 46 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 505.
This book uses risk in its dictionary meaning as the probabiHty of an unde sirable outcome, and has two research questions: when managers make de cisions, what leads them to choose a risky alternative? and: what deter mines whether the decision proves correct? Answers to these questions form a model of decision making that explains the process and results of managers' risk-taking in the real world. There is an extensive literature on risk and decision making because the topic has been of interest in many disciplines since at least the 18^^ century. Thus insights on the research questions are available ... Read more
This book uses risk in its dictionary meaning as the probabiHty of an unde sirable outcome, and has two research questions: when managers make de cisions, what leads them to choose a risky alternative? and: what deter mines whether the decision proves correct? Answers to these questions form a model of decision making that explains the process and results of managers' risk-taking in the real world. There is an extensive literature on risk and decision making because the topic has been of interest in many disciplines since at least the 18^^ century. Thus insights on the research questions are available ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
349
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Management Science
Number of Pages
349
Place of Publication
Heidelberg, Germany
ISBN
9783790816952
SKU
V9783790816952
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Ref
99-15
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