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nuts and drinks instead) and even a change in clothing. Rather than uniforms, SWA attendants and pilots dress casually, in polo sh...

quality measures or controls"1. For companies operating in a competitive environment management control systems can be examined ...

is may be culturally acceptable to claim a sick day when tired, in others this may be unacceptable. Therefore, culture is the resu...

Clark E; Lukas E, (2008, Nov), Hedging mean-reverting commodities, retrieved http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=12...

in terms of the bottom line of profit has long been proven inadequate. Todays business professional knows instead that the cultiva...

is an intensely competitive industry, is ruled mainly by its suppliers and depending on the economy, by its buyers as well. In ad...

the way for the 1993 partnership between Northwest Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and the Open Skies agreements were extend...

to a destination (though there may be two or three changes in the meantime) rather than to a major city "hub," which then branches...

a positive impact in terms of supporting or even creating a competitive advantage (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007). There is a gre...

We know that people are strongly influenced by culture but how do people influence culture? Examples for this are discussed. Other...

directors are given with two fingers rather than pointing with one, through to the customer service orientation value (Kober, 2009...

as a top airline due to its geography and technology with the only factors hampering its further growth and global impact being ca...

maintenance costs does not mean it is always true, and as such it needs to be assessed whether or not it is true in this case. Not...

is an important topic when reviewing any region. Airlines are again, an important part of the transportation sector and something ...

less cost than other countries (Tabarrok, 2008). This means that every country can have a comparative advantage if they specialize...

carriers who provide total packages, e.g., Internet service, television cable service, high speed Internet service. Consider the f...

In sixty two pages this paper presents a comprehensive overview of the airline industry and examines the effects of deregulation i...

commission commented that commissions at the federal level are often scapegoats for politicians who do not want to make the decisi...

paper documents, using computer and telecommunications networks" (Czuchry et al, 2001). In other words, the person picking up the ...

of airline tickets affects the demand. Rubin and Joy (2005) reported that the demand elasticity for leisure travel is 2.4, which i...

The writer looks at the airline industry in 2007/8, and assessed the main drivers and success factors. JetBlue is assessed using ...

In this way the more operating leverage an airline has, the greater its business risk will be. Despite the fact that many analyst...

monoplane that flew across the English Channel in 1909 (AIAA, 2003). However, these were not yet able to carry passengers. In 1933...

science of human resources is critically important. For this reason, Hilton Hotels and Resorts, an international chain of high qua...

into the existing culture (Schein, 1992). Next is socialisation through an induction process, this is where the corpreate culture ...

In seven pages so called 'primitive' cultures are examined in terms of the changes that result from interactions with other cultur...

importance of ethics and values have been sending that message to their employees more often than ever (Blank, 2003). Both the cu...

as encompassing the "values, norms, rites, rituals, ceremonies, heroes, and scoundrels in the history of the organization" (p. 56)...

The writer presents a proposal to assess the link between corporate culture at an airline and the reasons for poor levels of custo...

influenced by popular culture as it is part of the fabric of society in which they live. In regards to how popular culture affects...