A Comparative Analysis of Journal Articles in Risk Management

• Main Authors: Shui-Yin Wang, 王水音
• Other Authors: Li-Hua Lai
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83596293776773062951

碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 風險管理與保險所 === 92 === Employing the foreign data from Science Directive On Site (SDOS) and the local data from READncl Service System of Taiwan, this research collects the articles related to risk management published in journals from 1995 to 2002 as the analytic targets, and then makes comparisons between the difference of local and foreign environments, and the difference of 4 academic fields and 23 categories by means of path analysis, frequency analysis, rank analysis and tendency analysis. As a result, the following findings are made: (1) The domain of the large environment between local and foreign researches on risk management are similar. (2) The kinds of foreign journals having articles published are developing in stability year by year, and not many alterations are found. In Taiwan the researches on this issue tend to increase obviously. For the last eight years there were twelve kinds of journals having articles of risk management published, but in Taiwan there were only three kinds of journals with articles of risk management published. (3) Over the variability of the number of articles, the foreign one is smaller, whereas the local one is greater. (4) Foreign researches stress science, whereas local researches stress social science. (5) Foreign researches emphasize medical science, whereas local researches emphasize social science. (6) When positioning the ten major categories, eight categories of foreign and local researches are the same. (7) The differences of growth and slow down between foreign researches and local researches are very great. The categories of local research on risk management excepted that civil engineering and economics and finance appear to be growing, but there is a fact that eight categories of foreign research on the issue appear to be slow down.