Perceiving and managing Brexit risk in UK manufacturing: evidence from the midlands

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Figure 1. The social amplification of risk framework (adapted from Kasperson et al., 1988).

Table 1. Respondent profiles – key information.

Pseudonym	Sector	Location	Size of enterprise (approx. # employees)
Participant 1	Automotive	Midlands^a	2000+
Participant 2	Metal fabricator	Black Country	500
Participant 3	Industrial Service Provider	Birmingham	5
Participant 4	Metal fabricator	Black Country	150
Participant 5	Metal fabricator	Black Country	100
Participant 6	Metal fabricator	Black Country	100
Participant 7	Machine tools	Black Country	100
Participant 8	Jewellery	Birmingham	50
Participant 9	Metal fabricator	Black Country	100
Participant 10	Med Tech	Birmingham	600
Participant 11	Industrial Automation	Birmingham	100
Participant 12	Metal fabricator	Midlands^a	1000+

^a Owing to the size of these companies and the relatively low number of large OEMs in a given area (county/local authority etc.), the geographic locale of these participants has been kept less distinct in order to avoid identification.

Kasperson, R., Renn, O., Slovic, P., Brown, H., Emel, J., Goble, R., … Ratick, S. (1988). The social amplification of risk: A conceptual framework. Risk Analysis, 8(2), 177–187.

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