Mergers and Acquisitions are important corporate strategy actions that aid the firm in external growth and provide it competitive advantage. In today’s globalized economy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are being increasingly used the world over, for improving competitiveness of companies through gaining greater market share, broadening the portfolio to reduce business risk, for entering new ma...

1567-4223/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2011.12.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +972 3 5026628; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E. Rubin), bmant When people shop for airline tickets, the effort-demanding cognitive process of assessing alternative travel dates may have significant effects on consumer decisions. With the advent of the Internet, consumers a...

This manuscript presents an intercomparison exercise of tropospheric HCHO retrieved from satellites measurements using several products obtained from independent retrieval approaches. In order to validate the products, the authors use aircraft observations during the short term field deployment of SEAC4RS in the Southeast of the US. This is an important validation effort. In general, the paper ...

This paper describes a novel parameterization for lightning-produced NOx (LNOx) developed for cloud resolving models (CRM), a topic appropriate for publication in ACP. In addition, sensitivity studies are carried out in large detail to select the most important parameters and to point out which parameter values fit the observations best. Such comprehensive sensitivity studies concerning LNOx pa...

worthy. Bellow there are general and particular comments to help the authors in improving their manuscript. According to these comments, I consider that the manuscript requires substantial revision before to be accepted for publication in ACP. General comment The experimental data set is really interesting, but the study will benefit from a more exhaustive analysis of some aspects like the PBL ...

In measuring productivity in the presence of undesirable outputs, traditional growth accounting and index number approaches face the problem that prices of the undesirable outputs typically do not exist since such outputs are generally not marketed. In this paper we employ an alternative measure of total factor productivity based on a generalization of the Shephard distance functions, namely wh...

Among the realistic ingredients to be considered in the computational modeling of infectious diseases, human mobility represents a crucial challenge both on the theoretical side and in view of the limited availability of empirical data. To study the interplay between short-scale commuting flows and long-range airline traffic in shaping the spatiotemporal pattern of a global epidemic we (i) anal...

The airline industry is undergoing a very difficult time and many companies are in search of service segmentation strategies that will satisfy different target market segments. This study attempts to identify the service dimensions that matter most to current airline passengers. The research measures and compares differences in passengers’ expectations of the desired airline service quality in ...

Editor—The General Medical Council recently held a “stakeholders’ conference” on the revalidation of doctors, at which participants reportedly went along with the educationally improbable proposition that formative assessments (“appraisals”) can be summated to provide robust formal revalidation decisions: “five satisfactory appraisals equals revalidation.” Now, reminiscent of the Vatican’s 17th...

This paper provides new evidence on the link between airline tra±c and employment in a metro area. The evidence con ̄rms the common view that good airline service is an important factor in urban economic development. Frequent service to a variety of destinations, re°ected in a high level of passenger enplanements, facilitates easy face-to-face contact with businesses in other cities, attracting ...