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Airline Bankruptcy: The Determining Factors Leading to an Airline's Decline

Tolkin, Jason - 2010

The purpose of this study was to determine what the critical factors are to an airline’s financial turmoil, leading … ultimately to a bankruptcy filing. Over the past decade, the airline industries’ performance has been dismal, leading to 20 … falter and others shine. Some of these metrics are later applied to a case study examining Trans World Airlines (TWA) and …

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Entry Behavior and Financial Distress: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Domestic Airline Industry

Liu, Chia-Mei - 2007

airline industry. The analysis of airline data from the top 500 airport-pairs during the period 1993-2003 shows that … carrier financial condition and entry decision indicates the important role of financial structure in airline entry. …

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When Advance Purchase need to be Made for Future Consumption – An Empirical Investigation of Consumer Choice under Bucket Pricing

Sun, Bao-Hong; Sun, Yacheng; Li, Shibo - 2006

Bucket pricing entails a prepaid price and a maximum consumption limit, which requires consumers to make advance purchase decisions before their consumption needs are fully revealed. We propose a dynamic model that involves how consumers form expectations of future consumption needs, learn to...

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Essays on Integrating Product Design and Marketing Research.

Feit, Eleanor Mc Donnell - 2009

Engineers and product designers have developed sophisticated models to predict the technical performance of their designs, yet they seldom quantify how performance affects the desirability of the resulting products to consumers. Without this information, managers have difficulty judging which...

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Game theoretic derivations of competitive strategies in conjoint analysis

Choi, S. Chan; DeSarbo, Wayne S. - 1993

While conjoint analysis has been applied in a wide variety of different contexts in Marketing, most applications fail to explicitly consider retaliatory reactions from competitors. In this paper, a methodological extension is developed for conjoint analysis by explicitly modeling competition in...

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Exploring design and innovation: further developments in the innovation curriculum

Tabor, Emma; Chappell, Alison - 2001

The Exploring Design and Innovation booklet was developed as a curriculum resource to disseminate information about Millennium Products and the Design Council's Sharing Innovation web site. The Sharing Innovation project examined over 80% of the 1000 plus Millennium Products, looking at their...

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Brave new world - meeting the needs of society in the twenty first century, the role of design and design education

Bird, Edward - 1999

As we are about to enter both a new century and new millennium the human race appears to be engaging in universal stock taking. Auditing the past seems to be a means of coming to terms with the future.Design is not exempt from these phenomena. Both designers and design educationists are...

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Novel strategies to overcome barriers to commercialisation of new technologies: a case study from the Australian biotechnology industry

Hine, Damian; Millen, Damien - 2006

The biotechnology industry is shifting its value creation emphasis from R&D to manufacturing and market. Business models need to keep pace with this evolution. This paper reports on a single-case study of a new biotechnology firm, EpiTan Limited, and the life cycle stages it has progressed...

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What Makes Online Grocers Work? A Case Study Analysis of Factors Contributing to Online Grocery Store Profitability

Lucky, Jr. - 2008

This research examined the factors contributing to the performance of online grocers prior to, and following, the 2000 dot.com collapse. The primary goals were to assess the relationship between a company’s business model(s) and its performance in the online grocery channel and to determine if...

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Organisational and cross-cultural challenges facing expatriate hotel managers in China

Wang, Gongping - 2009

Within China's the hotel industry, they are known as expatriate managers and. on behalf of parent multinational hotel corporations, provide an element of control and co-ordination within local operating units. On average, organisations spend over two and a half times more money to send an...

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