The book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the historical and cultural forces that have shaped the new gaming industry. The second part of the book analyzes how each segment (pari–mutuel betting, lotteries and casinos) competes in the new industry. The political and social...

This paper is an attempt to merge the concepts of social performance, strategy and stakeholders into a useful framework. The utility of the framework is meant to aid practitioners in making decisions and assessing the interplay of social performance, strategy and stakeholders in day-to-day...

A long-standing hypothesis is that firms that enter a market early ("first movers") tend to have higher performance than their followers ("first-mover advantage"). Recently, researchers have begun to argue that the statistical tests that support this relationship are limited in their...