Group preparedness for risk in the environment of social instability

• Authors: Natalja Mihejeva
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author analyzes theoretical sources with the view of operationalization and systemization of the notions of risk as well as the notions that are connected to it. This article provides a detailed overview of the definition of risk and its components; it also identifies external and internal sources of uncertainty as one of the main components of risk situation. This article is seen as an attempt to analyze a risky situation and recognize whether the phenomenon of risk is the factor of organizational behaviour. And still there are relevant though unsolved theoretical and practical issues concerning the problem of individual psychological disposition to risk in connection with individual personal peculiarities and social conditions.

Keywords

EN

risk; preparedness for risk; social instability; group; decision making

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 98-102

Contributors

author

Natalja Mihejeva

• Faculty of Social Psychology, Daugavpils University, Latvia

• Prague Development Center s.r.o., Bořivojova 1081 / 40, 130 00, Prague 3 - Žižkov, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2010.91