Environmental jolts, clocks, and strategic change in the U.S. Airline industry: The effects of deregulation and the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks

Business and Politics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Goll, Irene ^a   Rasheed, Abdul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

airline industry; environment; strategic change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855400877     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1386     Document Type: Review

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