...Willem Fourie Purpose Even though every decision a leader makes carries an element of risk, no review on the topic of leadership and risk has appeared in highly-ranked management journals in the past 20 years. This is in contrast to the discipline of psychology in which leadership and risk...

...Rory Alexander McDonald However these problems are minor and Organizing in the Face of Risk and Threat fulfils its purpose with a crisp charm. The depth and diversity it holds, whilst not excessive, does not stray too far from the intention to introduce and advance a new facet...

...Igor Kotlyar; Leonard Karakowsky; Mary Jo Ducharme; Janet A. Boekhorst Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine how status-based labels, based on future capabilities, can impact people's risk tolerance in decision making. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper...

...” and being unable to decide on the spelling of a researcher's name) and others that suggest a lack of understanding: in Chapter 10, Alston describes questionnaires about individuals' perception of risk as objective data, when clearly they are not. I am unsure about how well his advice transfers from the US...

...Anthony J. Berry The “risk society” presents a considerable challenge to current understanding of the question of risk and the task of organisational leadership. Beck has proposed that we, in late modernity, are moving from an industrial society to a risk society, which requires a corresponding...

... different situations and setbacks during their careers. Other factors which discriminate between the groups are the degree of risk taking, innovation and political style. All three groups have much in common. They are all good communicators who work extremely hard and are intrinsically motivated. We...