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PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6214
Fax: 910.521.6750
Email: business@uncp.edu
Location: Business Administration Building,
Room 102
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Rick crandall , ph.d.
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Professor Management, Marketing and International Business Office: Business Administration Building, Room 222 Email: rick.crandall@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.5786 |
Bio | Degrees | Research Interests | Courses
Professional Affiliations | Brief Vita
William “Rick” Crandall earned a B.S. degree in Hotel/Restaurant Administration from Florida State University in 1978. Over the next decade, he worked in the restaurant and contract foodservice industry in various management capacities. He later earned his M.B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees from the University of Memphis. Dr. Crandall taught for eleven years at Concord College in Athens, WV. During his tenure, he developed an interest in crisis management and served on the college’s crisis management team. His publications on organizational crises have appeared in SAM Advanced Management Journal, The Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, Southern Business Review, Academy of Strategic and Organizational Leadership Journal, Journal of Business in Developing Nations, Internal Auditing, Security Management and Central Business Review. In addition, Dr. Crandall speaks frequently on crisis management to groups both on and off campus.
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Dr. Crandall’s research interests lie primarily in the area of organizational crisis management. His forthcoming book, Crisis Management in the New Strategy Landscape, with co-authors, John Parnell and Jack Spillan, will be appearing this summer through SAGE publications. Dr. Crandall also has an interest in looking at organizational effectiveness, particularly in terms of critical success factors. His book, New Methods of Competing in the Marketplace: Critical Success Factors from Service and Manufacturing, co-authored with his father, Richard Crandall, looks at how organizational effectiveness is enhanced when service and manufacturing sector companies take the time to learn best practices from each other. This book (2008) is published by CRC Press, a Taylor and Francis Group company. Currently, Dr. Crandall, and his father, along with colleague Charlie Chen, both at Appalachian State University, are finishing a textbook on Supply Chain Management. This book will also be published with CRC Press.
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