... directors on a company’s equity risk. Design/methodology/approach This empirical research employed a system generalized method of moments, a superior approach to investigate the relationship between women directors and corporate risk. This study also utilized Blau and Shannon indices for the robustness...

...Haileslasie Tadele; Helen Roberts; Rosalind Whiting Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of MFI-level governance on microfinance institutions' (MFIs’) risk in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach The study uses data from a sample of 151 MFIs operating...

...Priscilla Twumasi Baffour; Ibrahim Mohammed; Wassiuw Abdul Rahaman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate gender differences in risk aversion and determine the effect of personality traits on risk aversion from an African country context. Design/methodology/approach The study...

...Lu-Ming Tseng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of role ambiguity, norms of reciprocity and ethical policy on the insurance agents’ attitude and intention toward selling insurance to high-risk customers. Design/methodology/approach This study employed partial least...

... and working conditions of the workers and to see whether the nature of the employment relation gives support to the mainstream economic theory of “implicit contracts” concerning labour exchanges that occur in a risky world. Despite the existence of obvious risks (e.g. contracting HIV/AIDS) there is little...

...Max Gillman; James Hogan New Zealand’s 1993 Companies Act defines reckless trading as when a director/manager induces a “substantial risk of serious loss to the company’s creditors”. The definition contrasts with international common and statutory law that holds managers personally liable only...

... Hand, considers the use of a conditional failure distribution related to the age and degradation of a component to define the accident probability. Discusses issues of engineering risk, cost‐benefit and limited resources in the context of a “reasonable standard of care” and the common law question...

...Neil Collins; Nicholas Mack Participation in politics or the public domain has often been linked to material benefits. Looks at farm households in Ireland and concludes that those which are the most exposed to economic risks participate more in the public domain. Those most active...

...Roman A. Ohrenstein; Barry Gordon In any environment which allows for individual and group enterprise, some degree of risk as well as elements of uncertainty and expectation will be features of virtually every human endeavour. These three decision‐making categories are especially relevant where...