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Risky Business (risky + business)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Medical Sciences	40%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	40%

Selected Abstracts

Risky Business: Economic Uncertainty, Market Reforms and Female Livelihoods in Northeast Ghana

DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 5 2000
Brenda Chalfin
This article examines the implications of economic uncertainty for rural markets and the livelihoods of female traders. It does so through a case study of a community in northern Ghana caught in the throes of a structural adjustment-driven privatization initiative. In order to fully comprehend the nature of the economic uncertainties in which rural economic actors are enmeshed and the manner in which they resist, engage or engender these conditions, two theoretical lenses are interposed. One, focusing on structural dissolution and an overall process of rural, and especially female, disempowerment, is drawn from recent approaches to African political economy. The other, gleaned from the field of economic anthropology, attends to the agency and knowledge of rural entrepreneurs in the face of unstable and imperfect market conditions. By bringing together these different analytic traditions, the critical significance of uncertainty within the complex process of rural economic transformation and reproduction becomes evident. Rather than functioning as a diagnostic of economic crisis and insecurity, uncertainty can be a strategic resource integral to the constitution of markets, livelihoods and economic coalitions. Such a perspective, privileging the institutional potentials of local social practice, makes apparent the forceful role played by female traders in the structuring of rural marketing systems even in the face of externally-induced and sometimes dramatic shifts in material conditions. [source]

Risky Business in China

JOURNAL OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 2 2008
J. Ralph Byington
Want to do an M&A deal in China? Be very careful! Remember that corruption and white-collar crime (WCC) is not confined to the United States. It is an epidemic that has infected business abroad as well. And while the penalties for WCC in the United States are tame, in China the punishment can be death. The authors review WCC in China, including who is doing it, what the penalties are, and protective measures executives can take to avoid and prevent encounters with the Chinese versions of WCC. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Pfizer's prescription for the risky business of executive transitions

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 1 2005
Carlota Vollhardt
While transitions in leadership and key expert roles can create opportunities for improvement and innovation, they also run a high risk of failure and loss of business-critical knowledge and social capital. At Pfizer, key stakeholders engage in a carefully orchestrated process that harvests know-how critical to the role going forward, transfers it to the successor, and identifies and addresses any remaining knowledge gaps. The approach also provides the successor a transition road map for accelerating learning and capitalizing on strengths while tending to business. © 2005 Carlota Vollhardt [source]

How to keep V(D)J recombination under control

IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS, Issue 1 2004
Marjorie A. Oettinger
Summary:, Breaking apart chromosomes is not a matter to be taken lightly. The possible negative outcomes are obvious: loss of information, unstable chromosomes, chromosomal translocations, tumorigenesis, or cell death. Utilizing DNA rearrangement to generate the desired diversity in the antigen receptor loci is a risky business, and it must be carefully controlled. In general, the regulation is so precise that the negative consequences are minimal or not apparent. They are visible only when the process of V(D)J recombination goes awry, as for example in some chromosomal translocations associated with lymphoid tumors. Regulation is imposed not only to prevent the generation of random breaks in the DNA, but also to direct rearrangement to the appropriate locus or subregion of a locus in the appropriate cell at the appropriate time. Antigen receptor rearrangement is regulated essentially at four different levels: expression of the RAG1/2 recombinase, intrinsic biochemical properties of the recombinase and the cleavage reaction, the post-cleavage /DNA repair stage of the process, and accessibility of the substrate to the recombinase. Within each of these broad categories, multiple mechanisms are used to achieve the desired aims. The major focus of this review is on accessibility control and the role of chromatin and nuclear architecture in achieving this regulation, although other issues are touched upon. [source]

Predicting outcome from post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease: A risky business

PEDIATRIC TRANSPLANTATION, Issue 4 2001
M. Green
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