The role of learning in risk-avoidance strategies during spider–ant interactions

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Hénaut ◽  
Salima Machkour-M’Rabet ◽  
Jean-Paul Lachaud
Keyword(s):  
Risk Avoidance ◽  
Avoidance Strategies

Specialization vs. Diversification Decision Making

2014 ◽  
pp. 16-44
Author(s):  
Dimitris Folinas ◽  
Mohammed Althrawa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Risk Avoidance ◽  
Industry Type ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
Export Policies ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
Returns On Investment

This chapter has two main aims: first, to explore the role of various economical, financial, and strategic forces influencing firms towards diversification and specialization decision making within the Saudi Arabian manufacturing industry, and second to assess the challenges for both types of companies at the time of decision making and afterwards. Surveying 100 decision makers in the industrial cities of Riyadh using questionnaires developed for both groups, the chapter initially attempts to identify the factors that had the greatest impact on firm performance based on firm returns on investment. Several factors were found significant; first, attempts of specialization were found associated with risk avoidance and managers craving to achieve industry dominant economic features, whilst results show an increased concern among diversified firm decision makers towards changes in import and export policies and regulations. Moreover, industry type was found effective in managerial responses as they weigh the role of the factors presented to the direction of the expansion made.

Metonymy-induced polysemy and the role of suffixation in its resolution in some Slavic languages

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 58-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Brdar
Keyword(s):  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Avoidance Strategies ◽  
Limiting Case

The central concern of the present paper are metonymy avoidance strategies as a limiting case of polysemy resolution. Specifically, I look into the role of suffixation in the resolution of metonymy-induced polysemy in a number of languages (Germanic, Romance, Slavic and Hungarian) in two frames, animals and their meat, and trees and woods. The particular mix of strategies a language makes use of is of course dependent on its structural makeup. It is established that Slavic languages do not really have many choices apart from suffixation in the resolution of metonymy-induced polysemy. The analysis of patterns of suffixation found in six Slavic languages reveals that unlike compounding, which as good as removes any ambiguity in spite of its underspecificity, suffixation as a polysemy-resolving strategy is even more underspecified, and as an interesting twist, prone to contract additional polysemy or just relegate it to another level.

The Role of Senior Citizens in Crime Prevention

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezzat A. Fattah
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Risk Avoidance ◽  
Personal Impact ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
Prevention Techniques

ABSTRACTElderly people have a relatively low likelihood of becoming a victim of crime, compared with other age groups. Theft rather than violence constitutes the bulk of offences against them. Criminological research indicates that it is not vulnerability but lifestyle and the amount of time spent out of the home which are pre-disposing factors. However, when offences occur they have a disproportionately high personal impact. Ways of reducing both exposure and impact are discussed. These include (1) Hardening the targets (2) Creating more protective environments (3) Encouraging self-help (4) Entrancing awareness of crime and prevention techniques (5) Risk avoidance.

scholarly journals The Influence of Socio-Emotional Wealth on the Speed of the Export Development Proces in Family and Non-Family Firms

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana M. Moreno Menéndez ◽  
Marco Castiglioni ◽  
María del Mar Cobeña Ruiz-Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Internationalization Process ◽  
Risk Avoidance ◽  
Commitment Level

This paper proposes that family firms do not necessarily internationalize less than non-family businesses, but rather, they do it more slowly. Lower speed of internationalization process of family business (measured by the speed of the export development process) is a consequence of the role of the socio-emotional wealth (SEW) in these firms. SEW operates through three different mechanisms: (1) long-term orientation, (2) risk avoidance, and (3) lack of resources to be independent. The empirical research, based on a panel of more than a thousand Spanish manufacturing firms along nine years (2006-2014), supports the hypothesis proposed, independently of firm’s previous size, age, and export commitment level.

The Role of Risk Avoidance in Anxiety

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon K. Maner ◽  
Norman B. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Avoidance
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