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Best Strategic Practices For Small And Medium-Sized Procurement Organizations, Peter O'Reilly

Publications

Presentation discusses best practices, goals and objective, and strategies, and for small and medium-sized procurement organizations.

The Relationship Between Firm Resources And Joint Ventures: Revisited, Vivien E. Jancenelle

Business Student Publications

Purpose

– This study is a replication of Wolff and Reed’s (2000) work. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the combination of resources brought to joint ventures influence parent-firm performance. This study is also interested in whether or not the exposure of immobile resources through the semi-transparent membrane of the joint venture can have negative effects on parent-firm performance.

Design/methodology/approach

– The sample consists of two-parent joint ventures formed by publicly traded US firms between 1997 and 2013. The event-study methodology is used to calculate each parent-firm’s abnormal returns. This work also uses content analysis to analyze …

Best Strategic Practices For Small And Medium-Sized Procurement Organizations, Peter O'Reilly

Publications

Presentation discusses best practices, goals and objective, and strategies, and for small and medium-sized procurement organizations.

Ryanair Holdings, Nicole Blake Tran, Jamie Perkinson, Caron Sinnenberg, Lionel Tarcia, Jeffrey S. Harrison

Robins Case Network

The crass Irish CEO of Ryanair presides over a modern miracle. Ryanair, with its ridiculously low prices and poor reputation for service, has become one of Europe’s largest and most successful airlines. Employees pay for their own training, flights are cancelled if they won’t be full enough to be profitable, and the concept of “no frills” is heartily embraced. However, some new competitors have come on the scene, and Ryanair may be forced to improve its service and reputation to keep up.