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Title: |
Understanding Risk |
| Sub-title: |
Contributions from the Journal of Risk & Governance |
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| Edited by: |
Matthias Beck |
| ISBN10-13: |
1626186863 : 9781626186866 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
260x180mm |
| Pages: |
369 |
| Weight: |
.786 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - July 2013 |
| List Price: |
252.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Economics : Business & management |
| 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. Similarly, in the private sector, the internationalization of economic activity has heightened concerns over the potential adverse implications of mismanagement and financial scandals, and has led to calls for greater regulation and supervision. While the responses of public sector agencies and private sector actors to these challenges have differed, they share a common acknowledgement that effective governance relies on the pro-active identification, assessment, and management of risks as well as appropriate regulatory frameworks. This edited book covers a number of divergent topics illustrating the emergence of several novel themes in the area of economic and social risk. As a commonality, these novel themes relate to the growing complexity in which human activity in this late stage of capitalist development is embedded. This risk-generating complexity, in turn, can be observed at several levels, including workplace hazards, governance problems within the private sector or within the intersection of private and public, and in relation to the economic risks faced by larger entities such as individual countries. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Signalling Characteristics & Information Content of Directors' Dealings on the London Stock Exchange; Asymmetric Response: Explaining Corporate Social Disclosure by Multi-National Firms in Environmentally Sensitive Industries; Cultural Theory of Risk & the Credit Crisis; Regulations, Risk & Rent Seeking Behaviour; On the Impacts of Corporate Governance Disclosure on Performance & Profitability in Emerging Markets; Implementing Risk Management: A Study of Major Malaysian Corporations; Foreign Direct Investment & Country Risk: Is there Evidence of 'Malign' Investment in Former Soviet States?; Oil & Dependency: The Case of Kazakhstan; Multinational Enterprises & Bargaining Power: Some Critical Reflections; Risks in Private Finance Initiative Projects: A Public Sector Perspective; Does the UK Local Finance Improvement Trust (Lift) Initiative Improve Risk Management in Public-Private Procurement?; UK Public Private Partnerships & the Credit Crunch: A Case of Risk Contagion?; Risk & Health Policy: The Case of the UK National Health Service; Arsenic & Old Wool: An Early Example of the Precautionary Principle in the Risk Management Cycle or Sheep in a Toxic Wolf's Clothing?; A Worker-Driven & Community-Based Investigation of the Health of One Group of Workers Exposed to Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM); Violence towards Mental Health Nurses in England & the Nature of the Policy Response: A Frame Analysis; Fire & Risk: The Controversy Over the Role of Fire-Retardants in the World Trade Center Disaster; Some are More Equal than Others: On How Health Workers Cope With Ideas That Seem Impossible to Practice; Index. |
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