The iron industry was fully industrialized by the seventeenth century. The initial ironmasters were landowners, with clerks managing their ironworks. Professional ironmasters emerged from the clerks by the 1600s. The largest iron businesses (such as that of the Foley family described here) had...

Risk is a phenomenon that should not be neglected in the decision-making process. It is a fact because there is uncertainty and the impossibility of predicting the exact time of its occurrence in otherwords, even if there is a particular risk likely to occur or occurs.

If a university, due to the nature of its activities (teaching and search activities), organization, structure and functionality specific purpose for which they were established mainly with direct educational development and the other two components of the knowledge triangle, research and...

Little is known about producers' willingness to use manure. Past studies have focused on substitutability for fertilizers. We surveyed crop producers in a cattle-dense region of the Colorado Plains about whether and why they apply manure, focusing on how pressures (like owning cattle) or...

This paper explores the relation between decision theoretic conceptions of risk and the conceptions held by executives. It considers recent studies of risk attitudes and behavior among managers against the background of conceptions of risk derived from theories of choice. We conclude that...

Особенностью процессов, происходящих в пищевой промышленности, является то, что результатом ее функционирования выступает не создание продуктов, а...

Статья посвящена проблеме управления капитализацией с помощью системы сбалансированных показателей. Авторами рассмотрены основные предпосылки перехода...