Types of Risk Management Practices Derived from Questionnaire and Interview Scoring

The aim of this chapter is, built on the scoring results of the questionnaire (Chapter 4) and the interviews (Chapter 5), to develop a typology for the evaluation of risk management practices for SMEs (Section 6.1). It draws on the type terminology of Miles and Snow (1978, 2003), by relating a type with certain sets of scoring figures. After the theoretical presentation of the risk management types their practical substantiation is developed by describing examples of companies which participated in the interviews and, partly, also in the questionnaire (Section 6.2).

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