Toward a Contingency Model of Strategic Risk Taking
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 10 (2), 230-243
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1985.4278108
Abstract
A model of strategic risk taking incorporating environmental, industrial, organizational, decision maker, and problem variables is presented. The model is intended to be both a preliminary conceptualization of strategic risk taking and a stimulant for future research on risk taking in strategic management decisions. Relevant research from a number of disciplines is summarized, and the potential impacts of particular variables on the propensity to take strategic risks are examined.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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