The Research Approaches on Crisis and its Management

The paper structures research approaches to the crisis and its management. It focuses on approaches – psychological, sociological, economic, ethical and technological. Furthermore, it describes the basic features of models chosen according to those approaches. By their comparison it shows how the crisis influences organizations and individuals, and their mutual interaction.

Authors:

• M. Mikušová
• P. Horváthová

Keywords:

• approaches
• crisis
• model.

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