Research

Online retailers seek logistics service providers offering high-quality supply chain management knowledge. But new research by supply chain management professor Elliot Rabinovich shows retailers need to look before they leap into a contract with a provider.

As companies adopt a strategy of growth via brand acquisition it becomes increasingly important to understand the corporate cultures — the core values, ways and beliefs, business principles and traditions — of the new members of the family.

What kind of boss are you? Consultant and author Dale Dauten proposes a new model guaranteed to boost performance exponentially while moving the company dynamic beyond traditional hierarchies.

Indifferent employees alienate shoppers, run off clients and botch deals with a shoulder-shrug. They don't care, and that message acts like static on a bad telephone connection, canceling out any lucrative communication. How to turn that attitude around?

As Arizona strives to find and maintain a place in the global economy, it faces many of the same challenges as the nation.

Elizabeth M. Bailey, clinical assistant professor of economics at the W. P. Carey School of Business, has been studying the debate over oil industry consolidation and prices.

Few companies operate independently in the Electronic Age, which means that the security vulnerability of every business partner — outsourcer, client, whatever — whose computer system has access to yours is a potential portal to your most sensitive data.

The U.S. government debt is massive — and growing out of control. Our debt is a burden on our grandchildren failing to decrease it today is selfish and myopic. Those are statements that most Americans have become accustomed to hearing.

Year in and year out, cars manufactured by Toyota Motor Corp. are praised by automobile critics and lauded by loyal customers. The cars sell extraordinarily well and, come year's end, can almost always be found at the top of the rankings in reliability, quality and customer satisfaction.

Last year, some 28 percent of corporate managers surveyed told Evans Data, a market research firm, that their primary driver for outsourcing was cost cutting. You'd think saving money would catch the eye of Wall Street but, in fact, it doesn't.