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experiencing the economic downturns like other businesses are these days, its still considered a company worth working for, and on...
(Southwest Airlines Co., 2009a). Southwest acquired Morris Air in 1993. This gave Southwest an opening in the Pacific Northwest...
income of $178 million and a net margin of 1.6% (2007 net income was $645 million, with a net margin of 6.5%) (Annual Report, 2009...
Details a leadership development program to be put in place at Southwest Airlines. There are 10 sources listed in the bibliography...
any of these deals simply because they didnt fly at the time the deals were made (Irving, 2003). After fighting many legal battle...
-- its drinks were "love potions," while peanuts were considered "love bites" (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). But when Dallas/Fo...
relentlessly targeted Southwest in demarketing efforts, Southwest not only continued to exist. Eventually, it surpassed all of th...
advancing the commercial airline industry, for example, Southwest was the first airline to offer a frequent flyer program that off...
near downtown Dallas (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). Because the airline operated from capital of Field, Southwest adopte...
Clearly, the relationship between Southwest Airlines marketing division as guided by owner Herb Kelleher and the metaphoric Irish ...
Worth Regional Airport Board files a suit against Southwest to stop them from operating out of Love Field, which was the downtown ...
highly motivated workforce is Southwest Airlines. Lieber reported that Herb Kelleher, Southwests CEO, makes sure his employees bel...
way of differentiation (Mintzberg et al, 1998). Cost advantage is where a company has lower costs than its rivals in producing the...
and active use of the aircraft. One of the benefits is that if an organization can benefit only from a portion of those hours, th...
to positive attitude that applicants already possessed. "We draft great attitudes. If you dont have a good attitude, we dont want...
the U.S. Department of Transportation gave a name to the phenomenon - the Southwest Effect (Southwest, 2003). It refers to the con...
is so important to this case is because it does not follow a normal path. Vilcassim & Kadiyali (1999) explain that a company react...
in 1963 illustrates the conditions against which Guevara dedicated his struggle. Brennan (1998) was in Guatemala City for the pur...
In five pages this paper examines how Southwest Airlines can be finely tweaked for the future while retaining its competitive ad...
Using the RBV Approach The writer looks at Southwest Airlines and their different resources with the aim of assessing their streng...
text is able to answer many of the questions about the organisation, focusing on leadership and relationships, with context given ...
use of a single size aircraft where it is possible to easily substitute one aircraft for another is there are operating issues. ...
background information and applying a number of theories to explain the way in which the industry operates. This will be useful in...
at employees or offer a tangible reward at the end of a given year (typically some kind of catalogue from which employees can choo...
trying to expand domestically, both through organic growth and acquisitions (Gilmer, 2010). SWA today is under the directi...
with a variety of governmental rules and regulations. In the United States, for example, airline companies operate under the auspi...
move forward it is necessary to look at the company and its position. A useful approach is the resource based view (RBV). With...
out to the target audience is important, and SWA has relied on a variety of creative ways in which this is done. It advertises a g...
in the months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, people forsook air travel and focused on vacations and travel tha...
the appropriate technology requires planning and proper implementation of the technology (Spafford, 2003). Lacking either of these...