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Full-Text Articles in Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
Crop Insurance Strategies For Mitigating Net Underwriting Losses, Kennedy K. Kitur
Crop Insurance Strategies For Mitigating Net Underwriting Losses, Kennedy K. Kitur
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Crop insurance is an essential risk management tool for America's agricultural producers because a single crop failure or disastrous year can eliminate the results of multiple years of profitability. Crop insurance is designed to provide financial protection to farmers; however, insurance managers who lack managerial underwriting strategies disrupt companies to the point of financial distress. Self-insurance and self-protection theory were the conceptual frameworks for this single-case study to explore successful strategies that insurance managers used to mitigate net underwriting losses. Four insurance and senior strategic managers from an insurance company in the midwestern United States were recruited through a purposeful …
Escalating Commitment: Business Investments And Csr, Victoria Forrest, John Hasseldine Ph.D
Escalating Commitment: Business Investments And Csr, Victoria Forrest, John Hasseldine Ph.D
Honors Theses and Capstones
There are many instances, in all areas of business, in which individuals can become committed to a course of action that begins costing more than it is producing. Because it is often possible for persons who have suffered a setback to recoup their losses through an even greater commitment of resources to the same course of action, a cycle of escalating commitment can be produced (Staw, 1981). This thesis serves to address prior literature and prior studies based on the theory of escalation behavior . We furthered our research by conducting an experiment using university students to test certain said …
Women In The Workforce: An In-Depth Analysis Of Gender Roles And Compensation Inequity In The Modern Workplace, Rebecca L. Ziman
Women In The Workforce: An In-Depth Analysis Of Gender Roles And Compensation Inequity In The Modern Workplace, Rebecca L. Ziman
Honors Theses and Capstones
This paper explores the increase in participation and education of American women in the workforce with a special focus on women in business and accounting roles. The paper then goes on to discuss the wage gap between genders, how to remedy inequality in the workplace, and highlights several reasons why pursing a solution to gender inequality is beneficial for both the employee and the company.
Cultivating The Customer Asset, William Bleuel
Cultivating The Customer Asset, William Bleuel
William H. Bleuel
Improve service by recognizing different stages of customer development.
An Approach To Estimating Market Value And Duration Of Interest-Sensitive Whole Life Contracts, Thomas J. Merfeld
An Approach To Estimating Market Value And Duration Of Interest-Sensitive Whole Life Contracts, Thomas J. Merfeld
Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993-2006)
A fixed premium interest·sensitive whole life contract is analyzed in order to estimate its market value. In addition, using various definitions of duration, we determine the duration of the contract for each definition. The results of this analysis have implications for market value accounting of life insurance liabilities and for life company portfolio management.