As the discipline of strategic management grows from the lessons to be learned from the current financial crisis, it is important to take strategic perspectives at how industries, represented by specific companies, could be affected by such economic disasters, both in terms of internal and...

Through the increase of technology and the implementation of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), roads, bridges and tunnels will become more safe and convenient and can deliver socially responsible and sustainable technologies, if properly managed and encouraged. Traffic control and faster...

The numerous advancements in electronic-personalization communication have generated both benefits and challenges as online retailers try to regain competitive advantages in the current global recession. Through appropriate multivariate analyses and data-reduction techniques, the basic elements...

Purpose – Corporate social responsibility (CSR)-based strategies have become important concepts in dealing with firms' stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the processes of stakeholder legitimacy and interest detection, namely ethical considerations and community obligations,...

A survey was designed and formally tested via multivariate statistical analysis of working professionals, representing the service sector from the Pittsburgh, PA, metropolitan area to testing assumptions concerning the effectiveness of governmental intervention, demographics and strategies for...

Fast-food restaurants have generally benefited from difficult economic times throughout the USA and globally. In an exploratory study in the Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan area of working professionals, it was found that current food preferences, as compared to the previous year, point to less...

With the advent of the current global recession, many companies are trying to remain competitive and reducing inventory shrinkage, especially through employee theft deterrence, are become more popular. Through multivariate statistical analysis of 212 managerial employees of both service and...

As we are in the midst of the one of the longest recessions in US history, more than ever, companies are doing what they must to barely survive through its end. By virtue of their industries, products (both face-to-face and web-embedded) or policies, mergers and acquisitions strategies, a number...