Construction quality associated with the life of construction enterprises. Risk assessment of construction quality referred to a comprehensive evaluation of the degree of risk confronting construction units during the construction process. Construction units provide a decision-making basis for employers and supervisors, who considered the evaluations of construction quality and accidents in the...

Bowman’s risk-return paradox (1980) suggests that the management’s attitude towards risks and returns changes according to the company’s situation. This paper intends to compare different cultural backgrounds in the context of the same political and economic environments, as well as the same market benchmarks, in order to examine whether Western and Chinese management teams demonstrate the same...

Abstract – The enormous discrepancy between risk perception and the risk associated with nuclear power utilization will further perpetuate after the recent accident in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) in Japan. Complete and transparent risk assessment is an assumption for an improvement in risk understanding. This paper contains an overview of approaches and the results of risk asses...