INVESTMENT RISK MANAGEMENT IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES: NATURE, AIM AND CONTEMPORARY ASPECTS
Keywords:
investment risk, strategic risk management, sustainable investment, responsible investment, negative screeningAbstract
Investment risk management has been gaining an increasing importance in the becoming more and more dynamic business environment. Entrepreneurs as economic agents whose role for innovations and economic growth is instrumental in every modern market economy, are placing attention on risk management in all their activities.
Subjects to the current paper are strategic management of investment risks, some key features of it and certain specific modern aspects of it. One of those aspects is related to the role, which is gaining momentum that environmental and social problems have on business climate and the necessity to manage the various risks arising in investment activities from these problems.
The aim of the research is to summarize the foundations of the chosen topic first within a theoretical, conceptual framework and afterwards the main tendencies in the specifics of risk management, related to environmental and social problems, to be outlined and analyzed.
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