文档介绍：Corporate Decision-Making with
Macroeconomic Uncertainty
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Corporate Decision-Making with
Macroeconomic Uncertainty
Performance and Risk Management
Lars Oxelheim
Clas
2008
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Oxelheim, Lars.
Corporate decision-making with macroeconomic
uncertainty : performance and risk management /
Lars Oxelheim, Clas .
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-533574-3
1. Risk management. 2. Decision making. 3. Management.
I. , Clas. II. Title.
2008
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Preface
Within the last three decades, fi rms anizations, regardless of size,
have been subject to changes in the conditions for doing business including
increased uncertainty about shocks and disturbances in the world econ-
omy. These developments require new strategies wherein management
recognizes the interdependenc