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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Southwest Airlines"”.
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Affecting Change Synergistically: An Interpretative Case Study of Leadership Relationships at Southwest Airlines
… to operationalize 21st century leadership in Southwest Airlines Co., a Texas-based corporation that is recognized as one of America's most successful airlines. This company has a 22 year history, over 10,000 employees, and earned profits of $91 million in 1993. This research is an …
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Organizational Change in Action: A Qualitative Case Study of USAir's Acquisition of Pacific Southwest Airlines
… description of the acquisition of Pacific Southwest Airlines by USAir, five deliberate and planned actions resulted which were part of a strategic change plan designed to facilitate a smooth transition from one organization (PSA) to another (USAir) These actions were the internal mechanisms …
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The Heart and Spirit of Transformational Leadership A Qualitative Case Study of Herb Kelleher’s Passion for Southwest Airlines
… Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Southwest Airlines, a Dallas, Texas-based corporation that has a 15- year history, approximately 5,000 employees, and one billion dollars in assets. Key informant interviews were held with Kelleher and Southwest Airlines employees from different …
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Foundations for a sociological business performance paradigm based upon the fundamental reliance on and awareness of cultural imperatives
… Using information collected on Nucor Steel and Southwest Airlines, I provide a preliminary assessment of the virtues of the strategic-culture model as it relates to explaining these firms and their operations.
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… whereby incumbent firms decrease fares when Southwest Airlines emerges as a potential entrant, but is not (yet) competing directly. In the first essay I describe this so-called Southwest Effect and use reduced-form analysis to offer possible explanations for why firms may choose to forgo …
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Rethinking the hub and spoke airline strategy : an analysis and discussion of American Airline's decision to depeak its schedule at O'Hare International Airport
… spoke airline strategy. The financial success of Southwest Airlines and other low cost carriers is partly attributable to its high levels of employee productivity and equipment utilization. In April 2002, American Airlines made a step toward emulating this facet of Southwest's strategy by …
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The effects of capacity discipline on smaller U.S. airports : trends in service, connectivity, and fares
… flights, seats, and available seat-miles, airlines reduced capacity at airports across the United States from 2007-2012 in response to a global economic downturn and high and volatile fuel prices. Despite an economic recovery and more stable fuel prices, airlines continued to keep domestic …
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European deregulation: analysis of the future of European low cost carriers
The appearance of low cost scheduled airlines in Europe, operating with the same philosophy of low fares, `no-frills' and high frequency service to that of Southwest airlines has been the main departure from the existing market `status quo'. After a 6-year period which saw such airlines becoming …
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Topological evolution of networks : case studies in the US airlines and language Wikipedias
… industry in terms of routes. We study various airlines and segments of the industry statistically and find commonly occurring patterns. We show that there are topology transitions in the history of airlines in the period 1990-2007. Most airline networks have similar topology and historical …
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Three essays on financial markets
… is no corresponding futures contract available, airlines may have to cross hedge jet fuel with either crude oil or other refined products. Because the dependence between jet fuel and its hedging instrument is time-varying, airlines' cross hedging problem needs a dynamic solution. This essay …