The 1997 Indonesian financial crisis resulted in severe economic dislocation and political upheaval, and the detrimental consequences for economic welfare, physical health, and child education have been established in several studies. The crisis also adversely impacted the psychological well-being of the Indonesian population. Comparing responses of the same individuals interviewed before and a...

The Central and Eastern European Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care was founded in Krakow, Poland in 2003. On October 8th and 9th, the 7th symposium took place titled 'HTA for Crisis'. This meeting was attended by over 250 decision makers, evidence-based specialists, healthcare managers, commercial company personnel and experts. The symposium was principally divided into four main ...

Disasters have long been a scourge for humanity. With the advances in technology (in terms of computing, communications, and the ability to process and analyze big data), our ability to respond to disasters is at an inflection point. There is great optimism that big data tools can be leveraged to process the large amounts of crisis-related data (in the form of user generated data in addition to...

Crisis management is a comprehensive inspection of enterprise management ability in special situation. his paper researches on how to deal with enterprise crisis from the perspective of knowledge management. According to the life cycle theory, enterprise crisis is divided into six periods, then the knowledge which is required in each period of life cycle crisis management is analyzed. A crisis ...

Tourism industry has become one of the biggest and dynamic industries in the world, giving a great impetus to the economic development. However, its vulnerability and the crisis management have been the momentous problem. The findings of researches and practices have shown that tourism crisis will possibly take place due to the destruction of system balance, which is similar to the ecological c...

We investigate the determinants of cash holdings and firm value of Latin American firms during the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995 and the Brazilian crisis of 1999. We find that each crisis alters the determinants of cash and firm value differently. Larger firms increase their cash holdings during the Mexican crisis, while cross-listed firms increase their holdings of cash during the Brazilian cris...

abstract circassians are one of the ethnic groups in the south-west of the caucasus who speak circassian language which is one of the branches of the north-east caucasus languages (ebrian-caucasian). this ethnic branch includes the caucasian ethnic abkhaz-adygian group, which are nowadays divided in three republics in the north caucasus kabardino-balkaria, karachay-cherkessia and adygeya. by us...

The main aim of this paper is to present a clear and comprehensive picture of the process of a crisis in the organization which will help to better understand its possible developments. For a description of the sequence of individual steps and an indication of their causation and possible variants of the developments, a detailed flow diagram with verbal comment is applied. For simplicity, the p...