Title of Document: Firm Decision Making under Financial Distress: A Study of U.S. Air Fares and an Analysis of Inventories in U.S. Manufacturing Industries Christian Hofer, Ph.D. 2007 Directed By: Professor Martin E. Dresner, Ph.D., Robert H. Smith School of Business Professor Robert J. Windle, Ph.D., Robert H. Smith School of Business This dissertation investigates the effects of firm financia...

The article investigates the relationship between ownership structure and the role played by the board of directors in the strategic decision process. A comparative case study of strategic decision processes indicates that ownership concentration, the nature of shareholders’ interests and the distribution of relevant knowledge affect the key functions performed by the board of directors, the in...

In general, corporations in high-tech industries pursue Corporate Venture Capital investments for financial and strategic objectives. In particular, a large number of corporations have invested in e-business ventures in order to enhance innovation and entrepreneurship within the firm’s network. The achievement of strategic objectives is often comparatively difficult to measure and may take seve...

strategic alliance is a cooperation contract between two or more organizations who want to improve their competitive situation and performance through resource sharing. one of the common types of strategic alliances is the alliance between two organizations working in the same industry. one of those industries which alliances occur most likely is the casting industry. in this regard, this resea...

Strategic investment decisions (SID’s) are more easily understood and controlled than most of the other activities undertaken within the framework of strategic management. Hyperknowledge support systems have been used as problem solving and decision support environments for strategic management and for strategic decision making in a number of industries in recent years. It appears that the logi...

AIMS To analyse problem gamblers' decision-making under conditions of risk and ambiguity, investigate underlying psychological factors associated with their choice behaviour and examine whether decision-making differed in strategic (e.g., sports betting) and non-strategic (e.g., electronic gaming machine) problem gamblers. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Out-patient treatment centres ...

Beyond studies related to the importance of strategic alignment between business strategy and IS strategy as well as establishing a number of enablers and inhibitors, there is a paucity of research on how organizations actually achieve strategic alignment. We conceptualize the process of achieving strategic alignment from a decision-making perspective by deductively drawing upon extant literatu...