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The goal of the seminar on which this book is based was to improve our understanding of societal behavior with respect to risk. A step toward achieving this is to start closing the conceptual gap among treatments of (1) individual risk, where the individual acts to his own account; (2) fiduciary risk, where the individual acts on the behalf of others; and organizational risk, where a formal or informal group interprets both public and professional perceptions of risk and investigates actions based on this interpretation.
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Shubik, M. (1991). Introduction: Risk in a Complex World. In: Shubik, M. (eds) Risk, Organizations, and Society. Studies in Risk and Uncertainty, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2207-5_1
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