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Postexpansion Planning Considerations For New Multioutlet Retailers, Larry N. Bitner, Judith D. Powell
Postexpansion Planning Considerations For New Multioutlet Retailers, Larry N. Bitner, Judith D. Powell
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
Successful small retailers invariably are tempted to test the adage "more is better." While the expansion allure is more than many can resist, it must be tempered by the realization that many hidden challenges await the unsuspecting entrepreneur.
Success of the new organization will require not only more but a different kind of effort than used in managing the single store. First, successful operation will now depend on delegating operating decisions to professional managers. The autonomy given these managers is a complex decision and may be placed anywhere within a three dimensional continuum depending on the desired image, supervision, and …
Estimating Earning Impacts Of The Vocational Rehabilitation Program, David H. Dean, Robert C. Dolan
Estimating Earning Impacts Of The Vocational Rehabilitation Program, David H. Dean, Robert C. Dolan
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
This paper estimates earnings impacts of services provided by a state agency of the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) program. To appreciate the significance of this effort requires some historical perspective on evaluation of the VR program as well as familiarity with more recent developments within the manpower training literature in general.
Today VR is a $1 billion dollar program, and it certainly appears that this level of public funding is well founded on a long history of demonstrated cost-effectiveness. In fact, however, considerable skepticism exists with regard to the data and methods that have generated impressive benefit-cost ratios in the past. …