Risk management practices in global markets

Market globalisation and economic worldwide crisis have created great difficulties to many countries in terms of: economic recession; establishing long-term partnership relations; credit crunch. All the above stated factors have increased the management complexity and the emerging risks. This article is focused on specific business sectors (basic metals, food products and electrical equipment), aiming at verifying, throughout an empirical survey, the main risks, the risk attitude and the risk management’s quality of companies operating in these sectors. The selection of the above stated sectors is based on their risk relevance and on the opportunity of comparing three different operating areas such as: production of industrial consumer goods (basic metals sector); production of non industrial consumer goods (food sector); production of hard goods (electrical equipment sector). The analysis has been carried out referring to a selected number of companies listed on global markets.