Though it is an important means for enterprises to increase market demand and boost profits, trade credit can carry risks. Besides, risks also result from uncertain demand. Decision-makers’ attitude towards risk will influence the decisions of enterprises, so meaningful study impact preference on supply chain performance. This paper explores effect risk-averse preferences manufacturer or retail...

This research has two objectives. The first is to study the link between SMEs internationalizing at an early stage and the attitudes of their decision makers toward internationalization. The second is to analyze this relationship in an international context (India and France). We thus propose to contribute to a better understanding of the factors behind internationalization. To meet these objec...

Examines the damaging effects that malicious computer abuse, such as hacking and viruses, can have on the development of an information-based society. Computing and telecommunications technologies are a key ingredient in the realization of this society, but are increasingly the targets of criminals and mischief makers. Highlights the apparent escalation in computer-abuse incidents, as illustrat...

Radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled smart shelves have recently attracted enormous attention from both industry and academia. Retailers have an explosion of interest in deploying smart shelves for the automatic ordering and the reduction of inventory inaccuracy. This study explores the retailers’ optimal policy for investing in a smart shelf inventory control system. Since the decisio...

Recently, there is a growing attention by the researchers to solve and interpret the analysis of fully fuzzy linear programming problems in which all of the parameters as well as the decision variables are considered as fuzzy numbers. Under a fully uncertain environment where all of the data are stated as fuzzy, presenting the reasonable range of values for the decision variables may be compara...

background: eclampsia is associated with 14 % of maternal mortality in developing countries. considering that identification of at risk mothers and improving the level of knowledge and awareness of family care experts would lead to better control of the disease and its complication, the aim of this survey was to evaluate the level of knowledge and attitude concerning this disease among pregnant...

We measure differences in attitudes towards risk and uncertainty between entrepreneurs, managers and employees in a large scale experiment. Theory predicts that entrepreneurs are a distinct breed in terms of their more positive attitude towards risk and uncertainty. Many empirical studies have tested this prediction, employing various measures of risk (i.e. experimental and survey based) and un...

We explore situations in which a decision-maker bears responsibility for somebody else's outcomes as well as for her own. For gains we confirm the intuition that being responsible for somebody else's payoffs increases risk aversion, while in the loss domain we find increased risk seeking. In a second experiment we replicate the finding of increased risk aversion for large probabilities of a gai...

Although risk and uncertainty are intrinsic to human migration, there is surprisingly little explicit research on the willingness to take risks in this context. This paper analyses whether migrants are more or less likely than non-migrants to be risk tolerant, and whether these differences are gendered. Attitudes are explored in terms of responses under conditions of both risk and uncertainty, ...

The question of when people may impose risks on each other is of fundamental moral importance. Forms of “quantified risk assessment,” especially risk cost-benefit analysis, provide one powerful approach to providing a systematic answer. It is also well known that such techniques can show that existing resources could be usedmore effectively to reduce risk overall. Thus it is often argued that s...