Businesses have to deal with many potential risks in the supply chain, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The retail market in Vietnam has great potential for long-term development with the birth and rapid development of domestic supermarkets. However, market opening policies have resulted...

Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production decisions. We find that insurance provision induces...

Purpose – Labeling women as risk‐averse limits the positive benefits both women and organizations can gain from their risk taking. The purpose of this paper is to explore women's risk taking and reasons for stereotype persistence in order to inform human resource practice and women's career...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which leadership attributes, masculinity, risk taking and decision making affect perceived crisis proneness. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws mainly on the literature about gender, leadership and organizational...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide proactive risk management techniques and strategies that can be applied to trading and investment portfolios in emerging and Islamic illiquid financial markets, such as the Moroccan foreign exchange and stock markets....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the principles of and legal risk faced by Islamic banking and suggest necessary steps to mitigate them. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines ideal concept of Islamic banking and its practice. A range of publication is used,...

Purpose This study aims to identify and classify potential hospitality industry human resource (HR) risks in the luxury hotel context. Design/methodology/approach Data has been collected from five-star hotels in Antalya, one of the most popular tourism destinations in Turkey. The study conducted...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a critical review of the literature on the rate of return risk faced by Islamic banks. Design/methodology/approach – Through a thorough review of the literature, this paper presents the discussion among scholars regarding the rate of return risk in...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the risk‐adjusted performance of Malaysian mutual funds using optimized drawdown risk measures (ODRMs) based on modern portfolio theory, and to represent the results in a manner which is easily understood by average investors and portfolio managers....