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The impact of the financial crisis on labour in the civil aviation industry : final report

Harvey, Geraint; Turnbull, Peter - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2009

Examines the effects of the crisis on employment conditions, job loss, labour relations, and the preferred socially responsible responses. Includes the questionnaires, addressed to management and unions, on changed working conditions, flexible work practice, role of collective agreements, and...

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Proposing Architecture and Process Governance for Risk Mitigation in Organizational Change : a Case Study of the Flight Test and Development Centre (FTC), A Division of the UAE Arm...

Al Akbari, Salah - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

develop the right framework with a risk dimension and governance for a specific FTC application: a framework that will assist …

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Lessons Learned from the 787 Dreamliner Issue on Lithium-Ion Battery Reliability

Williard, Nicholas; He, Wei; Hendricks, Christopher; … - In: Energies 6 (2013) 9, pp. 4682-4695

On 16 January 2013, all Boeing 787 Dreamliners were indefinitely grounded due to lithium-ion battery failures that had occurred in two planes. Subsequent investigations into the battery failures released through the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) factual report, the March 15th...

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Aviation rescue and firefighting in Australia â€” is it protecting the customer?

Braithwaite, Graham R. - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 7 (2001) 2, pp. 111-118

Aviation is an extremely safe transport mode, yet the accident rate for commercial jet aircraft operations has not … changed since the early 1970s. In spite of this, changes within the Australian aviation safety system are allowing safety … margins to be reduced in areas such as aviation rescue and firefighting (ARFF). In the name of economic rationalisation, the …

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Debt, Moral Hazard and Airline Safety : An Empirical Evidence.

Dionne, G.; Gagne, R.; Gagnon, F.; Vanasse, C. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 1993

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On the Sound Financial Valuation of Flexibility in Information Systems

Dorsch, Christoph - In: Business & Information Systems Engineering 57 (2015) 2, pp. 115-127

Flexibility often represents the key area of value added by investing into an information system (IS) but also carries significant costs. Therefore, its quantitative financial valuation is of vital importance to make economically informed decisions about flexibility. This is challenging due to...

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Stochastic Dominance of Any Type and Any Degree, and Expected Utility: A Unifying Approach

Lapidus, André - HAL - 2013

This paper provides a general framework for a unifying treatment of stochastic dominance of any degree and of any type (direct or inverse for each final or intermediary level). It gives the conditions for the congruence between stochastic dominance and classes of utility functions in this...

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Adam Smith on lotteries: an interpretation and formal restatement

Bréban, Laurie; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2013

attention. They nonetheless constituted an opportunity to introduce a sophisticated analysis of individual decision under risk …. Through various examples, Smith pointed out a risk-seeking attitude, figured out in the paper in terms of inverse stochastic … overestimate the chance of gain, which leads to favor a rank-dependent utility approach within which optimism toward risk can …

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Data dispersion near the boundaries: can it partially explain the problems of decision and utility theories?

Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2013

this theorem to explain the well-known problems of utility and decision theories, such as risk aversion, the underweighting …

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Investors Behaviour between Theory and Practice

Mionel, Oana - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 2 (2012) Special 1, pp. 53-56

rational” and make decision optimally. In contrast, psychology has observed how they fail to be rational from an economic …

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