The Favorite of Fortune

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
Jarod Roll
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Economic Depression ◽  
Lead Mining

This chapter shows how southwest Missouri miners maintained their pursuit of market opportunities as industrial capitalism foreclosed those opportunities nationally in the 1870s. They did this by mining and marketing zinc, once a worthless by-product of lead mining. Their zinc mining created a profitable new market that partially freed working miners from the control of smelting companies. At a time of national economic depression, this development made the mining region famous as a poor man’s camp where capital-poor but hard-working men could work on their own account, as independent owner-operator miners, and possibly make considerable sums of money. When smelting companies looked to take control of zinc, some miners turned to antimonopoly politics, but most miners responded as before, by searching for mineral discoveries as prospectors on undeveloped land in Missouri and now in Kansas. By seeking new opportunities to enter the market again as independent producers rather than fight the smelting companies, as workers forming unions elsewhere did, these miners kept alive their faith in capitalism and risk-taking work.

Innovativeness in family firms: an internationalization approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ratten ◽  
Kayhan Tajeddini
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
International Market ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
Opportunity Identification ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
New Research

Purpose This paper aims to build on opportunity identification and resource-based view theory, this paper examines the internationalization process of family firms. The role of innovativeness in influencing the internationalization rate of family firms is explored in terms of customer responsiveness, proactiveness and risk-taking. Design/methodology/approach Multiple case studies were carried out with several family businesses in the information technology industry in Australia. Findings The findings of this research suggest that innovativeness of family firms depends on responsiveness to customer needs in the international market while involving a degree of risk-taking. In addition, the results suggest family firms are not proactive in their pursuit of international market opportunities. Research limitations/implications If family firms focus more on becoming more innovative, then they will stand a better chance to successfully enter more international markets. Originality/value The paper highlights the need for family firms to embrace their innovativeness as a distinctive capability for their internationalization efforts. Several new research directions that may enhance the understanding of family firm innovation and internationalization are suggested.

scholarly journals On the strategic development of the mining regions of Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 315 ◽  
pp. 04013
Author(s):  
Natalia Egorova ◽  
Valery Tumin ◽  
Petr Kostromin
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Synergetic Effect ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Mining Regions

The regions’ development specializing in the minerals extraction has certain features, primarily due to the region's economy mono-dependence on its structure diversifying possibility. In modern conditions, the study of the problem of an innovative approach to the strategic development of mining regions in Russia becomes obvious and logical. The article examines the issues of a conceptually new approach to the elaboration of the strategy for the mining region development as the main prerequisites for increasing its socio-economic condition efficiency. The use of marketing technologies in the region development strategy, as well as clustering based on the territorial production placement forms, taking into account the placement principles, the region subjects integration both inside and outside the national economic network, contributes to accelerating the solution of the tasks faced by all participants in the regional development process. A coal mining region SWOT-analysis was carried out. The main result of the work is the assessment of the synergetic effect value that manifests itself in the provision of resources combining the region’s spheres and industries. The results of the study can be recommended for use in the strategy development for the "monoregions" sustainable development.

PREMATURE RUPTURE OF MEMBRANE AND PRETERM DELIVERIES IN PREGNANT WOMEN IN LEAD MINING REGION

Abstracts ◽  
1977 ◽  
pp. 170 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Fahim ◽  
Z. Fahim ◽  
B. Draper ◽  
B. Russell ◽  
W.T. Griffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Premature Rupture ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
Lead Mining

Community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated to Veronica rechingeri at the Anguran zinc and lead mining region

2008 ◽  
Vol 156 (3) ◽  
pp. 1277-1283 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zarei ◽  
S. König ◽  
S. Hempel ◽  
M. Khayam Nekouei ◽  
Gh. Savaghebi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
Lead Mining

scholarly journals LEGALIZATION OF THE CRYPTO CURRENCY MARKET: OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marat R. Safiullin ◽  
Leonid A. Elshin ◽  
Aliya A. Abdukaeva
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Currency Market ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Crypto Currency ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Digital Money ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Future Landscape

Today there is a profound transformation of the traditional money and finance world. Innovations in the financial sector, new technologies, tools and systems entail serious and profound changes in the financial institutions that are familiar to us. One of the most important stages of these transformation processes was the emergence of crypto currencies, accompanied by the rapid development of related technologies and the lack of a clear picture of the future landscape of ecosystems.The search for scientifically grounded mechanisms that reveal the specific features of the impact of the crypto currency market legalization processes on national economic systems contributes significantly to an understanding and objective perception of the prospects for their development. This paper is devoted to solving this problem. The object of the study is the global crypto currency market, which forms the institutional and conjunctural parameters of the national economic systems development. As the subject of the study is the process of designing and scientific and methodological justification of the prospects, opportunities and risks of the development of the national economy formed as a result of the legalization of the crypto currency market.As a result of the conducted studies and implemented assessments, scientifically grounded hypotheses on the influence of the "digital money" legalization mechanisms on key macroeconomic processes have been formed

scholarly journals Integrated approach to solving the problems of land recovery and disposal of solid waste in the coal mining region

2021 ◽  
Vol 315 ◽  
pp. 02009
Author(s):  
Ludmila Zakonnova ◽  
Andrei Babenko ◽  
Igor Nikishkin ◽  
Zhanat Idrisheva ◽  
Rudi Minasyan
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Opencast Mining ◽  
Ecological Situation ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
National Economic

As a result of anthropogenic destruction of natural biogeocenoses, a decrease in biodiversity occurs, leading to instability and degradation of both individual elements and the biosphere as a whole. In coal-mining regions, there are two equivalent environmental problems: land degradation as a result of mining and an increase in production and consumption waste. The unfavorable ecological situation affects the state of the ecosystem of the regions as a whole, which negatively affects the health of the population. In this regard, the development of predictive models of the state of disturbed lands - their reclamation and return to the national economic turnover - are relevant. The purpose of this work is to develop principles of rational nature management during land reclamation in the Kemerovo region, disturbed as a result of opencast mining of mineral deposits. The principles of rational use have been developed, their implementation will contribute to the improvement of the ecological situation. The mechanisms of implementation include: an integrated approach to solving the problems of land reclamation and disposal of solid household waste in a coal-mining region; forecasting and regulation of the introduction of alien objects; introduction of environmentally friendly technologies to minimize emissions of xenobiotics into the biosphere and decontamination of MSW processing products.

scholarly journals Development of Entrepreneurial Orientation

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Eka Zahra Solikahan ◽  
Ali Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Competitive Aggressiveness ◽  
A Company

The Entrepreneurial orientation (EO), is a company activity that are related to proactive decision-making practices that pay attention to innovative strategies, risk-taking and exploiting market opportunities. This study aims to explain the development of the EO with a qualitative approach with the literature study method. Results obtained, EO was first introduced by miller in 1983, stating the importance of innovation, risk taking, productiveness in the EO concept, later developed by Morris and Paul (1987), and Merz and Sauber (1995). In 1996 Lumpkin and Dess perfected the EO concept of Miller (1983) by adding autonomy and competitive aggressiveness in measuring EO. But in its development to date, EO measurements based on several earlier studies EO measurements combine between the studies of Miller (1983) and Lumpkin and Dess (1996).

Boys With Epilepsy Are More Susceptible to Risk Taking

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
PATRICE WENDLING
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking

The Multiple Faces of Risk-Taking

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Schmitz ◽  
Karsten Manske ◽  
Franzis Preckel ◽  
Oliver Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Formal Models ◽  
Experimental Paradigm ◽  
Nomological Network ◽  
Balloon Analogue Risk Task ◽  
Parameter Recovery ◽  
Task Specificity ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Criterion Variables

Abstract. The Balloon-Analogue Risk Task (BART; Lejuez et al., 2002 ) is one of the most popular behavioral tasks suggested to assess risk-taking in the laboratory. Previous research has shown that the conventionally computed score is predictive, but neglects available information in the data. We suggest a number of alternative scores that are motivated by theories of risk-taking and that exploit more of the available data. These scores can be grouped around (1) risk-taking, (2) task performance, (3) impulsive decision making, and (4) reinforcement sequence modulation. Their theoretical rationale is detailed and their validity is tested within the nomological network of risk-taking, deviance, and scholastic achievement. Two multivariate studies were conducted with youths (n = 435) and with adolescents/young adults (n = 316). Additionally, we tested formal models suggested for the BART that decompose observed behavior into a set of meaningful parameters. A simulation study with parameter recovery was conducted, and the data from the two studies were reanalyzed using the models. Most scores were reliable and differentially predictive of criterion variables and may be used in basic research. However, task specificity and the generally moderate validity do not warrant use of the experimental paradigm for diagnostic purposes.

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