Third, higher inflation boosts interest rates and restricts credit. Fourth, consumer attitudes plunge. Fifth, shortages sometimes have occurred. Corporations need to rebuild their cultures around personal integrity. Telling the Truth.
Energy crunch boosts business for site-selection industry.
Sometimes it takes a crisis to reorder priorities. The power crunch afflicting California is forcing executives to question the criteria used to determine a factory's location. Some are shifting priorities. Others are realizing that real-estate research is better left to specialists in site selection. To be accepted around the world, a company must be a good corporate citizen.