The world of mergers and acquisitions are often fraught with change, loss of identity and uncertainty for the workers who remain. The consolidation of work-groups can result in new roles, unfamiliar faces, new social structure and the introduction of foreign processes. The need to quickly...

In today’s maturing consumer markets, emphasis is shifting from straightforward sales to a more holistic approach to customer life cycle management, with a stronger emphasis on how sales are generated and service provided all along the customer journey. Effectively managing these different...

The twentieth first century has witnessed resurgence in the observance of fundamental Islamic business practices around the world. However, the fact cannot be denied that the current state of business under unbridled capitalism in the majority of cases in the Muslim world remains far from the...

The Clean Air Act mandates that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulate emissions of over 180 Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). These HAPs are commonly used industrial chemicals and compounds with the potential to cause either cancer or other serious non-cancer health effects. Although...

The role of Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the international economic environment has attracted the attention of many scholars due to the distinctive features of these firms. In particular, their development and longevity paths are critical to a better understanding of the main...

Many large Enterprise Systems are adopted in mandatory settings where potential users do not have much choice but to embrace the new technology. The objective of this study is to examine the adoption and use of information technology (IT) in mandatory settings where the option of rejecting the...

Throughout history and according to changes in society have noted that they have used different formulas for employers to ensure the sustainability of organizations. These formulas in many cases there are specific companies, but imitate those who have been successful. In other cases, models have...

This document is intended to perform an analysis of the beverage industry in Colombia, identifying how each of the companies surveyed faced turbulence in the environment to persist over time. It is structured into seven parts, following the introduction is a description of the sector in the...

Purpose – Business networks have to coordinate each of their partners' goals and expectations, as a lack of partner compatibility and goal incongruence could lead to conflict and opportunistic behavior. These potential problems highlight the relevance of partner selection as a means of...

This cross-section study contains the testing of a cause-and-effect model which is likewise based on the visualised conception of the value added realisation. In the context of a structural equation model 27 hypotheses have been tested; preliminary 23 of them could be proven. Thereby, a...