Andrew R. Thomas, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Akron and a bestselling business author, whose 15 books include, most recently, Soft Landing: Airline Industry Strategy, Service and Safety and The Final Journey of the Saturn V.
His book The Distribution Trap was awarded the Berry-American Marketing Association Prize for the Best Marketing Book of 2010. Another work, Direct Marketing in Action, was a finalist for the same award in 2008.
Andrew is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transportation Security, contributing editor at IndustryWeek, and a regularly featured analyst for media outlets around the world.
He has traveled to and conducted business in 120 countries on all seven continents.
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This would be valid if only colleagues could interact. I have seen many workplaces in large organizations where only management can interact. All infomation must flow through managers. To make it worse the work layout does not support interactions. ... If you want the benefits of co-location you have to have the right management structure and the right physical structure!!!
By alexander.keenan@kroger.com on Feb. 26, 2013