Voluntary and involuntary risk acceptance: A case study of firefighters

2021 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 105394
Author(s):  
Ignacio Rodríguez-Garzón ◽  
Myriam Martínez-Fiestas ◽  
Adrian Darmohraj ◽  
Antonio Delgado-Padial ◽  
Ruben Chumpitaz
Keyword(s):  
Risk Acceptance

The Politics of Risk: Trials and Tribulations of the Taurus Project

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helga Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Illusion Of Control ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
The Relationship

The term ‘risk management’ implies that risk is something which can be quantified, predicted and controlled. This paper seeks to demonstrate the limits of this assumption where complex projects are involved. The argument is based upon a case study of a failed £80 million IT venture known as Taurus. Analysis focuses upon the relationship between politics and the assumption of risk. Acceptance of risk, it is argued, is ultimately determined by the balance of power between decision makers. Moreover, risk analysis and other techniques of management may actually compound the difficulties by fostering an illusion of control and escalation. The implications for project management are discussed.

scholarly journals Family influence on internationalization: an analysis of risk acceptance

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Waldir Goede ◽  
Dinorá Eliete Floriani ◽  
Ademir Furtado Filho
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Family Commitment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article aims to contribute to the literature on family business (FBs), particularly from the perspective of commitment and influence of family on the FB internationalization regarding risk acceptance. Qualitative in nature, the study involved the use of a single longitudinal case study, based on in-depth interviews, storytelling and secondary data. Primary data were collected through semi-structured personal interviews with the company’s board chairman and vice-chairman, commercial director, European director and export manager; and secondary data were obtained using documental and scientific sources. It could be seen that family commitment and ownership influenced the internationalization process due to the proactivity of its European descendant founders, and particularly because in this company studied the process was initiated by a non-family member. However, family participation encourages risk acceptance, since the attachment to the family business creates an eagerness for growth. The findings corroborate the characteristics proposed by the Uppsala School, which claims that internationalization occurs in an unplanned, opportunistic manner, following sequential phases, through incremental learning and via the establishment of networks.

Risk Acceptance Criteria Formulation in Furniture Industry: The Portuguese Reality

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matilde A. Rodrigues ◽  
Pedro Arezes ◽  
Celina P. Lea˜o
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Furniture Industry ◽  
Acceptance Criteria ◽  
Acceptance Limits ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
The One ◽  
Equity Perspective

The acceptance criteria are important to the decision on the risk, however, it is possible to recognize that there is a lack of guidelines to use in the acceptance criteria definition. Considering that previous publications concerning the acceptance criteria definition in the occupational area are scarce, this paper aims to analyze how risk acceptance criteria can be formulated, exemplifying with a specific case in a Portuguese furniture industry. It explores the problematic on the acceptance criteria and the used principles for its formulation. The metrics to be adopted were also analyzed. Faced with the lack of guidelines for the risk acceptance criteria formulation for traditional occupational accidents, the experience with major accident hazards may help to understand some features. The principle ALARP was seen as an interest approach to use in occupational accidents. The literature review allowed finding seven steps for the quantitative acceptance criteria formulation. These steps were applied on a small Portuguese furniture industry. The case study showed that the quantitative acceptance criteria formulation is not an easy process. The principle ALARP it was considered suitable to be applied. Regarding risk indexes or indicators, the LTI-rate was the one that was considered to be the more appropriate. The upper risk acceptance limits, defined for this company, were 0.450 and 0.225 for tolerability and acceptability, respectively. The manager and consultant considered the use for the quantitative acceptance criteria as an added value to support the risk decisions. This paper showed the importance of the risk acceptance criteria in risk decisions, and exemplified how that can be done. However, this work suggests that there is still much work to be done in this area, in order to get that the companies of this sector being able to define the acceptance criteria in an equity perspective. So, it is only the first step, needing to be continued and extended to other industries.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Dual systems for all: Higher-order, role-based relational reasoning as a uniquely derived feature of human cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Povinelli ◽  
Gabrielle C. Glorioso ◽  
Shannon L. Kuznar ◽  
Mateja Pavlic
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Relational Reasoning ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Reasoning System ◽  
Role Based

Abstract Hoerl and McCormack demonstrate that although animals possess a sophisticated temporal updating system, there is no evidence that they also possess a temporal reasoning system. This important case study is directly related to the broader claim that although animals are manifestly capable of first-order (perceptually-based) relational reasoning, they lack the capacity for higher-order, role-based relational reasoning. We argue this distinction applies to all domains of cognition.

Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Van Bergen ◽  
John Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Memory Development ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Cross Cultural Research

Abstract Sociocultural developmental psychology can drive new directions in gadgetry science. We use autobiographical memory, a compound capacity incorporating episodic memory, as a case study. Autobiographical memory emerges late in development, supported by interactions with parents. Intervention research highlights the causal influence of these interactions, whereas cross-cultural research demonstrates culturally determined diversity. Different patterns of inheritance are discussed.

Construction of plastic contact deformation maps on ceramics: a case study on aluminum nitride

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 636-637
Author(s):  
D. L. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Aluminum Nitride ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Bright Field Image ◽  
Perfectly Plastic ◽  
Contrast Analysis ◽  
Deformation Patterns

Modern polishing, precision machining and microindentation techniques allow the processing and mechanical characterization of ceramics at nanometric scales and within entirely plastic deformation regimes. The mechanical response of most ceramics to such highly constrained contact is not predictable from macroscopic properties and the microstructural deformation patterns have proven difficult to characterize by the application of any individual technique. In this study, TEM techniques of contrast analysis and CBED are combined with stereographic analysis to construct a three-dimensional microstructure deformation map of the surface of a perfectly plastic microindentation on macroscopically brittle aluminum nitride.The bright field image in Figure 1 shows a lg Vickers microindentation contained within a single AlN grain far from any boundaries. High densities of dislocations are evident, particularly near facet edges but are not individually resolvable. The prominent bend contours also indicate the severity of plastic deformation. Figure 2 is a selected area diffraction pattern covering the entire indentation area.

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