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James G. March

Risk from the Managers Perspective (Part 2)

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Paper

Managerial Perspectives on Risk and Risk Taking
Year: 
1987

Today I will write about the implications of the risk understanding by managers covered in Part 1 of this series. After observing the mentioned factors on how managers perceive risks the authors categorize their conclusions in three areas.

Risk from the Managers Perspective (Part 1)

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Paper

Managerial Perspectives on Risk and Risk Taking
Year: 
1987

Today I finally read one of the most cited articles on subjective risk in general. In 1987 March and Shapira set out to shake up the existing theories on the perception and processing of risks by managers. Accordingly, they aggregated the information from various surveys on this topic.