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| Horobet, Alexandra; Dumitrescu, Sorin; Joldes, Cosmin. |
| The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of corporate risk management practices in Romanian companies, by investigating the risk management approaches Romanian companies take. Our main findings are that Romanian managers are not aware of the magnitude of exposure their companies have to various types of risk – hazard, operational, financial and strategic risks, while they are able to manage rather well all these risks, even the ones that have the lowest impact on the business. At the same time, risk management systems employed by Romanian companies are rather inarticulate and based on traditional approaches towards risk management, which might represent by itself a major source of risk, given the complexity of the business environment they... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Corporate risk assessment; Risk management; Romania; Agricultural and Food Policy; Productivity Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53574 |
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| Joldes, Cosmin; Horobet, Alexandra. |
| Is it interesting a 2 billion euro insurance market for the “old” Europe? “Not very much” one may say considering this figure represents no more than 16% of the insurance turn-over in the case of the most recent entry in the Romanian market, Groupama. The answer is still not as simple as that because “interesting” in business terms is not only about today, but very much about tomorrow. By the end of 2007 it was obvious that the Romanian insurance market is far from calming down. Not only that for the time being change is still the main real constant in use, but figures show that the market environment becomes more challenging than ever these days. The market situation showed that this allegation it was by that time more likely to be true than ever. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Insurance; Trends; Crisis; Change; Strategies; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Financial Economics; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53533 |
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