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Detlef Briesen, Nguyen Thi Thuy Trang, Pham Quang Minh - Times of Uncertainty

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Detlef Briesen (ed.), Nguyen Thi Thuy Trang (ed.), Pham Quang Minh (ed.)

Times of Uncertainty

Series: Vietnam - Politics and Economics

Volume 2 2022

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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-14

„… .] Times of Uncertainty National Policies and International Relations under COVID-19 in Southeast-Asia and …” „… .] Times of Uncertainty National Policies and International Relations under COVID-19 in Southeast-Asia …” „… , Detlef | Nguyen, Thi Thuy Trang | Pham, Quang Minh Times of Uncertainty National Policies and …”

Chheang Vannarith Cambodia’s Response to the COVID-10 Pandemic S. 23-38

„… fatigue is increasing. The growing fatigue, the stress caused by uncertainty, lowering risk perceptions …”

Le Tuyet Mai, Pham Thi Dieu Linh Response of ASEAN’s National Archives to COVID-19 Pandemic and Prospects for Specialized Cooperation S. 285-304

„… uncertainty. • Transparency facilitates the control of government acts by society, including its …”

Nguyen Huy Hoang COVID-19 Impacts and ASEAN’s Response S. 219-240

„… planning new protests in the coming weeks. The ongoing uncertainty would be likely to reduce domestic …”

Doan Thi Tham Strengthening the Implementation of MRA-TP in Tourism Human Resource Development in ASEAN Countries to Adapt to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Prepare for the Recovery of the Tourism Industry S. 195-218

„… , the cycle of uncertainty and the global nature of the pandemic put the tourism industry 4 …”

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Chengguang Li - The Effect of Culture on International Market Entries

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Chengguang Li

The Effect of Culture on International Market Entries

Series: Controlling und Management

Volume 6 2012

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Uncertainty Avoidance S. 42-45

„… ) reclassifies the term as a national culture dimension and states that “Uncertainty-avoiding cultures shun …” „… industry and the same cultural cluster enter the foreign market. 4.2 Uncertainty Avoidance This section …” „… introduces the societal culture dimension “uncertainty avoidance”. A review of the definition, previous …”

Regression Results S. 81-96

„… ) Uncertainty avoidance H2a - 0.072† (0.038) - 0.042 (0.039) Uncertainty avoidance x Previous JV entries H …” „… entries H1 0.236*** (0.024) 0.229*** (0.024) Uncertainty avoidance H2a - 0.057 (0.039 …” „… ) Uncertainty avoidance x Previous JV entries H2b 0.018 (0.021) Collectivism H3a 0.098** (0.036) 0.129 …”

Collectivism S. 45-49

„… 45 more an organization feels the desire to deal with that uncertainty. This desire is not the same …” „… for all organizations when facing the exact same level and type of uncertainty though. Profound …” „… differences of uncertainty avoidance values are found between organizations and decision makers of different …”

Cultural Clusters S. 39-42

„… dimension and states that “Uncertainty-avoiding cultures shun ambiguous situations. People in such cultures …” „… dimension “uncertainty avoidance” and the hypotheses involving this cultural dimension. Section 4.3 …” „… , especially for organizations that face situations of high uncertainty and ambiguity (Scott, 2008). The …”

Limitations and Future Research S. 99-101

„… individual is part of such as uncertainty avoidance and collectivism. Being aware of the profound impact of …” „… decision affects the institutional responsiveness of high (or low) uncertainty avoidance value …” „… organizations. This may explain why there is no statistical evidence that firms of high uncertainty avoidance …”

Contributions S. 97-99

„… , namely uncertainty avoidance and collectivism, on the likelihood of foreign entry and the effects of …” „… desire to avoid uncertainty decreases the likelihood of foreign expansion while collectivism value …” „… increases the likelihood of entry. Moreover, it is suggested that both culture dimensions, uncertainty …”

Introduction S. 17-22

„… of unusual uncertainty, because firms that enter a foreign market are exposed to the liability of …” „… at the effect of uncertainty avoidance on the choice of foreign entry mode or the rate of foreign …” „… that foreign market entries are often associated with high levels of uncertainty for the investing firm …”

Variables and Measures S. 52-67

„… for this study. Uncertainty avoidance. Uncertainty avoidance data are taken from the GLOBE project …” „… , Gupta, and GLOBE, 1999). Thus, uncertainty avoidance values data are taken for this study. Table 5.2 …” „… GLOBE project. The countries are grouped into five “bands” (A-E) starting from the highest uncertainty …”

Descriptive Statistics S. 72-81

„… cumulative JV establishments by firms of the different uncertainty avoidance values bands as discussed in the …” „… GLOBE study into five uncertainty avoidance values bands. The A band consists of countries with the …” „… highest uncertainty avoidance values scores, the B band with the second highest scores, and so forth. The …”

References S. 102-121

„… , 2(2): 95-130. Baldwin, C., and Ruback, R. 1986. Inflation, uncertainty, and investment. Journal of …” „… ., Babrow, A. S., and Stohl, C. 1996. Social support and the management of uncertainty: An application of …” „… : The effects of outcome salience and uncertainty. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(3): 472-500 …”

List of Figures S. 14

„… 4.1: Uncertainty, Uncertainty Avoidance, and Mimetism 45 Figure 5.1: FDI Flows into China in Millions …” „… Figure 6.2: Cumulative Joint Venture Entries by Uncertainty Avoidance Bands 76 Figure 6.3: Cumulative …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-12

„… effects of cultural dimensions such as uncertainty avoidance and collectivism on the likelihood of market …” „… Cultural Clusters 39 4.2 Uncertainty Avoidance 42 4.3 Collectivism 45 5 Setting and Methods 50 5.1 Research …”

Literature Review S. 23-27

„… approach to explain the foreign expansion of firms in the face of uncertainty. They base their analysis on …” „… higher firm-level uncertainty they are facing. Chan et al. (2006) use an institutional approach to …”

Neoinstitutionalism S. 28-33

„… behavior results from uncertainty and ambiguity, leading firms to substitute institutional rules for …” „… technical rules (March and Olsen, 1976; Meyer and Rowan, 1977). Organizations that face uncertainty and …”

List of Tables S. 15-16

„… : GLOBE Cultural Clusters Countries (House et al., 2004) 54 Table 5.2: Uncertainty Avoidance Values Scores …”

Practical Implications S. 99

„… individual is part of such as uncertainty avoidance and collectivism. Being aware of the profound impact of …”

Factors Affecting Institutional Responsiveness S. 35-38

„… enforcementVoluntary diffusion of normsEnvironmental uncertaintyEnvironmental interconnectednessWhy is the organization …”

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F. Philipp Ghadri - IPOs and Venture Backed IPOs

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F. Philipp Ghadri

IPOs and Venture Backed IPOs

2012

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Introducing Uncertainty S. 93-95

„… processing.4.1 Introducing UncertaintyOn the stock market potential investors are not certain about the …” „… productivity ofa target company. Even at the time of a purchase the uncertainty about the company’s …” „… missing knowledge about the productive capabilities of afirm attaches uncertainty to this investment …”

Game Theoretical Literature S. 40-43

„… . These models build on symmetric uncertainty which for instance is reflected by ? of the Capital Asset …” „… uncertainty about fundamental values and about the beliefs of thebeliefs of the beliefs (and so on) about the …” „… that exists is about the information sets of otherplayers. Uncertainty about the beliefs of the other …”

Proceeding S. 21-30

„… supply explanations of how IPO prices areaffected by different variables under uncertainty. Considering …” „… uncertainty during the process of an IPO facing investors and companies which canlead to massive mispricings …” „… (2002)21this kind of uncertainty. From a risk taking perspective many stand-alone theoriesdo not provide …”

Placement S. 78-79

„… positive relation betweenunderpricing and the degree of asymmetric information (uncertainty) about …” „… economy in general. From these latitudes uncertainty inevitably follows. That uncertainty might account …” „… overcomethis valuation uncertainty, deviate strongly from the expectations of the marketparticipants. However …”

Disinvestment of partners S. 62-65

„… market participants which in turn results in uncertainty. Principal-agent relationships that are …” „… influenced by uncertainty make use oftwo instruments in order to eliminate as much uncertainty as possible …”

Corporate Governance S. 65-68

„… uncertainty. Principal-agent relationships that are influenced by uncertainty make use oftwo instruments in …” „… order to eliminate as much uncertainty as possible: Signallingand Screening.Hypothesis 1 The Pre-IPO …”

Fundamental Values and Prices S. 111-114

„… fundamental ones have to influence prices.Now, if I introduce uncertainty, one asset can adopt different …” „… uncertainty is symmetric, which means that every market participant knowsthe possible different states and …” „… estimation of one fundamental value by all traders.If the uncertainty is asymmetric, the problems of finding …”

Valuation and Emission Price S. 79-88

„… economy in general. From these latitudes uncertainty inevitably follows. That uncertainty might account …” „… overcomethis valuation uncertainty, deviate strongly from the expectations of the marketparticipants. However …” „… the markets carefully is essential for overcoming the uncertainty of valuation. There aretwo main …”

Hypotheses S. 173-182

„… , George Arthur: The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanisms. Quarterly Journal of …” „… Economic Theory, 61 1993, 206–229Avery, Christopher N./Zemsky, Peter B.: Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty and …” „… , Jack/Riley, John G.: The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1992 …”

Venture Backed IPOs S. 36-40

„… else than uncertainty and uncertaintyalways affect pricing one way or another.There are also studies …” „… mispricings like underpricings or overpricings. These models build on symmetric uncertainty which for instance …”

Outlook S. 149-156

„… investorswhat the company produced, the stock was expected to be en vogue. Consideringthe uncertainty connected …” „… dueto uncertainty about the consistency and sustainability of the fast moving recovery.The IPO sentiment …”

The Underpricing Perspective S. 35-36

„… asymmetry is nothing else than uncertainty and uncertaintyalways affect pricing one way or another.There are …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-12

„… an IPO 934.1 Introducing Uncertainty 934.2 The Company’s Signalling 954.3 Information Feedback 964.4 …”

Higher Order Beliefs S. 114-129

„… the121value of the asset. The different states however model the degree of uncertainty.Each trader is …” „… pricingmodels, prices always match fundamental values. However, if I introduce uncertainty which is due to …”

Redefining Utilities - Prospect Theory S. 144-146

„… ), Lowenstein/Prelec (1992) and Lowenstein/Read/Baumeister (2003)144certain lottery. By introducing uncertainty (as we …”

Finding an Underwriter S. 75-78

„… asymmetric information (uncertainty) about IPOpricing by Rock (1986) and Beatty/Ritter (1986).3.6.5 …”

IPOs - Just Momentum or an Asset Class? S. 157-166

„… . Thus, there exists uncertainty about the emission proceeds which might be thecrucial factor which …”

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Claudia Cornwall

Battling Melanoma

2016

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8 A Cloud of Uncertainty S. 79-86

„… melanoma. The lungs, liver, bones, axilla were all clear,A CLOUD OF UNCERTAINTY80but Gordon had one spot in …” „… regular breathing and watched his peaceful form.My unruly ragged terror abated.A CLOUD OF UNCERTAINTY82The …” „… melanoma again, occupied with what awaited us at home.A CLOUD OF UNCERTAINTY84May 16. Nervous. Gordon has …”

5 Don’t Worry About It S. 39-52

„… War,“Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty,because all action must, to a …” „… uncertain-ty. Benjamin Djulbegovic, a professor of medicine at the University ofSouth Florida, advises …” „… through the seaof uncertainty of clinical practice.”8According to Clausewitz, the important question was …”

Notes S. 189-202

„… , http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1946/1946-h/1946-h.htm.8. Benjamin Djulbegovic, “Lifting the Fog of Uncertainty from the Prac-tice …” „… 1958. A CLOUD OF UNCERTAINTY1. Sheryl M. Ness, “Cancer Survivors Struggle with Fear of FrequentScans …”

Index S. 209-212

„… assistance to patients, 136,160–162; open label, 93; successful,59, 73–77, 156, 164; uncertainty ofresult …”

Preface

„… Visit with James Allison 658 A Cloud of Uncertainty 799 A Hairy Week So Far 8710 It’s Not Brain Surgery …”

Bibliography S. 203-208

„… .Djulbegovic, Benjamin. “Lifting the Fog of Uncertainty from the Practice of Medicine.”British Medical Journal …”

11 The First Hill S. 107-116

„… to life without the loved partner—that is a much more diffi-cult prospect, fraught with uncertainty …”

13 We Have Two Slots Left S. 133-146

„… he was heading toward success or failure.Another uncertainty revolved around how long Gordon would be …”

15 You’ve Got to Be Kidding! S. 159-174

„… uncertainty.”“It’s hard!”Gordon felt better the next day and went off to see Rob about theresults of another …”

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Pierre Ibisch, Laura Geiger, Felix Cybulla - Global Change Management: Knowledge Gaps, Blindspots and Unknowables

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Pierre Ibisch (ed.), Laura Geiger (ed.), Felix Cybulla (ed.)

Global Change Management: Knowledge Gaps, Blindspots and Unknowables

Series: Series for Econics and Ecosystem Management

Volume 1 2012

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Victoria Wibeck, Björn-Ola Linnér Public Understanding of Uncertainty in Climate Science and Policy S. 55-74

„… 55 Chapter 2 Public Understanding of Uncertainty in Climate Science and Policy Victoria Wibeck …” „… & Björn-Ola Linnér Climate change, uncertainty, and media framing Coping with uncertainty: results from …” „… Swedish laypeople’s focus groups Framing climate change as an issue entailing scientific uncertainty …”

Pierre L. Ibisch, Peter R. Hobson Blindspots and Sustainability under Global Change: Non-knowledge Illiteracy as a Key Challenge to a Knowledge Society S. 15-54

„… patterns of change have always operated according to principles of ordered chaos, creating uncertainty …” „… chaos and uncertainty behind the unknown provides a powerful incentive in society to establish order …” „… against times of uncertainty and at some point in this evolution its purpose and benefits will be fully …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-14

„… uncertainty. There are many interacting processes of anthropogenic global change, related to all major …” „… . Chapter 2 (Wibeck & Linnér) deals with public understanding of uncertainty in climate science and policy …” „… uncertainty about causes and consequences might not be the most pressing issues. Rather they see that the …”

Pierre L. Ibisch, Peter Hobson, Stefan Kreft The European Nature Conservation Network Natura 2000 in Meeting Uncertain Challenges of Climate Change: Applying Principles of Complex Systems and Ecosystem Theory S. 131-152

„… , Peter R. Hobson & Stefan Kreft Natura 2000, climate change and uncertainty A more appropriate …” „… change and uncertainty The scientific evidence for the impacts of climate change on biodiversity is …” „… . Attempts in science to understand, capture and analyse uncertainty in theoretical and experimental research …”

Peter R. Hobson, Pierre L. Ibisch Learning from Nature for Sustainability: An Econical Approach to (Non-)Knowledge Management S. 223-252

„… demonstrate this capacity to adapt and practice resilience in an environment of deep uncertainty. A …” „… , order and uncertainty. Rules of chaos allow for the emergence of order and patterns at certain scales …” „… with very little attention given to the outcomes of all the uncertainty and ‘noise’ generated in the …”

Jan Schwaab Blindspotting in Development Cooperation S. 75-90

„… spot the ‘blindspots’ - Individual responses to uncertainty - Methodological approach to …” „… of specific circumstances arising) and uncertainty (neither the probabilities of specific …” „… cooperation, decisions often involve a high level of risk or uncertainty. This applies especially to …”

Lutz Fähser Factoring Non-knowledge into Natural Resource Management: The Luebeck concept of Nature-Oriented Forestry S. 113-130

„… made under uncertainty. The few characteristics described above make evident that forest management …” „… responsive way to deal with uncertainty, unpredictability and change. Sustainable Forest Management (SFM …” „… uncertainty; forest management is method of adapting to nature with a natureoriented approach; forest …”

Martin Welp, Ingo Frost Non-knowledge and Organisational Learning S. 213-222

„… today under uncertainty and risk, fuzziness, and limited knowledge of future contingents shape future …” „… SuMaRiO51. For dealing with uncertainty and non-knowledge, SuMariO develops scenarios of future climate …”

Laura Geiger, Stefan Kreft, Pierre L. Ibisch Reducing Blindspots: MARISCO, a Planning Approach that Integrates Risk Management into Biodiversity Conservation S. 153-212

„… complexity-induced uncertainty and be ready for decision-making in the absence of evidence (Ibisch et al. 2009, 2010 …” „… definition (ISO 2009) is the 'effect of uncertainty on objectives'. Following this definition, risks comprise …” „… uncertainty of an event with a (subjectively perceived) negative impact (i.e., risk = probability x extent …”

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