Retail and wholesale industries

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK andIreland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisisof the past fifty years.

This book studies the relationshipbetween administrative capacity and a member state s influence in the EuropeanUnion.

The growing phenomenon of showrooming plagues sales managers and small retailers in ever increasing numbers as technology has evolved to create smarter and more empowered consumers.

The European payment market has undergone rapid transformation in recent years due to changes in payment habits, new business rules and new legal frameworks and regulation.

With the rise of the Internet, many pundits predicted that middlemen would disappear.

China's love for luxury is not a phenomenon brought on by the contemporary luxury market, but has been a part of Chinese culture and history for generations.

This new textbook, authored by a team of expert researchers and lecturers based at the London College of Fashion, is one of the first in the field to examine strategic management in the context of the fashion industry, catering specifically for students hoping to work in the sector.

China's financial reforms have undergone a large-scale transformation over the past several years.

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

This book challenges the notion that economic crises aremodern phenomena through its exploration of the tumultuous credit-crunch ofthe later Middle Ages.

In recent years, luxury brands have deviated from the principles of craftsmanship, rarity, uniqueness and heritage.

Coping with Retail Giants critically analyzes the modern retail market and identifies how businesses gain the competitive edge over the major retailers that currently control the market.

This book explores the potential for policy reform as a short-term, low-cost way to sustainably enhance global food security.

This book explains the emerging trends and developments of Chinese outbound travel, alongside the motivations, desires and expectations of Chinese travelers themselves.

Private online digital currency systems offer people accessible, convenient, and inexpensive everyday financial tools outside of traditional bank-owned and operated platforms.

Principles of Retailing is a comprehensive, academic text on Retail Management, which takes a UK and European perspective.

Using original qualitative ethnographic field interviews and quantitative field survey results, Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy explores the rationale for and model of 'off the books' consumption in a borderlands environment.

This book critically analyzes recalls of toys, carsand other products announced in the U.

The first book focusing specifically on talent management, retention and leadership in the luxury industry.

Brand Revolution offers a radical new approach to brand management.

Maritime transport has been the main driver of trade growth, and the emergence and development of a global economy.

Proposing a comprehensive account of the global fashion industry this book aims to present fashion as a social and cultural fact.

Cultural attractions play an important role in tourism at all levels, and attract huge numbers of tourists interested in heritage and the arts.

Cultural attractions play an important role in tourism at all levels, and attract huge numbers of tourists interested in heritage and the arts.

What is important to ethical consumers when thinking about going on holiday and how do they incorporate their lifestyle choices into these holidays?

What is important to ethical consumers when thinking about going on holiday and how do they incorporate their lifestyle choices into these holidays?

Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for various reasons seek alternative goodwill experiences and activities.

Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for various reasons seek alternative goodwill experiences and activities.

Social Marketing is the utilisation of marketing principles and methods to encourage individual and organisational behaviour change for the public good.

Social Marketing is the utilisation of marketing principles and methods to encourage individual and organisational behaviour change for the public good.

There are increasingly strident calls from many sectors of society for the tourism industry, the world's largest industry, to adopt a more ethical approach to the way it does business.

There are increasingly strident calls from many sectors of society for the tourism industry, the world's largest industry, to adopt a more ethical approach to the way it does business.

This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world.

This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world.

Customer satisfaction and loyalty in the tourism sector is highly dependent upon the behaviours of front-line service providers.

Customer satisfaction and loyalty in the tourism sector is highly dependent upon the behaviours of front-line service providers.

The world's polar regions are attracting more interest than ever before.

The world's polar regions are attracting more interest than ever before.

Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet.

Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet.

The inherent mobility of tourists and consequent relative ephemerality of contact between the visitor and the visited tourism phenomenon have specific characteristics that challenge the usual fieldwork practices of the social and physical sciences.

The inherent mobility of tourists and consequent relative ephemerality of contact between the visitor and the visited tourism phenomenon have specific characteristics that challenge the usual fieldwork practices of the social and physical sciences.

Rural Europe is a highly developed tourism region, representing advanced tourism experience and supposed modern approaches to this industry.

Rural Europe is a highly developed tourism region, representing advanced tourism experience and supposed modern approaches to this industry.

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people.

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people.

Destination marketing is more challenging than other goods and services.

Destination marketing is more challenging than other goods and services.

Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities.