Retail and wholesale industries

This book studies the main causes, consequences and nature of the Asia-Pacific's new free trade agreement (FTA) trend, and its implications for the global economy.

Britain's loss of its empire and its 'turn' to Europe are the two most striking features of its foreign policy in the thirty years after 1945.

Gaming markets are evolving rapidly.

This book, based upon a large-scale research project, examines alternative types of exchange rate policies being pursued and the changing nature of exchange rate policy during the transition process in four countries, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland and the Czech Republic.

To beat your competitors you must know exactly what they are doing.

Japanese distribution was long seen as archaic and difficult to understand, but today that has changed.

Leading international food retailers have in recent years expanded beyond national boundaries and started to operate on a global scale.

Uncovering how cash-in-hand economies are composed of not only the underground sector (work akin to formal employment conducted for profit-motivated purposes), but also a hidden economy of favours more akin to mutual aid, this book displays the need to transcend conventional market-oriented readings of cash-in-hand work and radically rethink whether seeking its eradication through tougher regulations is always appropriate.

e-Shock was a landmark book that analysed the impact of the electronic shopping revolution on major retailers and manufacturers and the strategic options available for the future.

The retail sector has undergone a major structural transformation in the past fifteen years and one aspect has been the enormous growth in airport retailing which now represents one of the major methods of profit generation for the airport authorities.

Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them.

Written by experts in Luxury and Fashion Management at SKEMA Business School this exciting new book offers a new perspective that challenges the established rules of the luxury and fashion industry.

This volume addresses profound issues in international economics, with contributions from leading researchers on the implications of trade.

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their impact on consumer culture.

As potentially the largest retail market, China has attracted a great number of foreign retail operations.

This book looks at the drivers in the emergence, development and internal and global expansion of Asian e-commerce businesses.

This new book focuses on the analysis of the online strategy and development of the luxury industry, tracing the evolution of the Internet from a means of communication to a trade and distribution channel.

China has become such an important element of the global economy that its influence cannot be ignored in almost any field of endeavour.

Imagine planning an event like the Olympics.

This book is about taking a theory, pricing, and translating it into an operational practice that can be used by a company on an everyday basis easily with maximum results.

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In Fundamentals of Leisure Business Success, you'll sidestep the theoretical, overly academic jargon that often bogs down books dealing with leisure and recreation and discover many revolutionary, practical ways that these theories translate into the everyday realities of market share, employee management, and all-out business survival.

Globally the hospitality and tourism industry is evolving and undergoing radical changes.

In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses.

In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses.

In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W.

The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion.

The global retail industry is in the early stages of an era of profound and unprecedented, change.

The global retail industry is in the early stages of an era of profound and unprecedented, change.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally.

Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally.

In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W.

Best practices for implementing Lean techniques in retail and wholesale Essential reading for those who want to learn how Lean provides a competitive edge in today s fast-paced, multi-channel, and cost-conscious environment.

The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) give the UN a road-map for development, with Agenda 2030 as the target.

Charles Fishman takes us into the heart of the biggest company on earth, ever, to show how the Wal-Mart effect shapes lives everywhere, whether for cleaners in America, bicycle-makers in China or salmon farmers in Chile.

In Smart Pricing: How Google, Priceline and Leading Businesses Use Pricing Innovation for Profitability, Wharton professors and renowned pricing experts Jagmohan Raju and Z.

The shopper marketing methodology is a powerful, complete approach for satisfying target consumer demand at the point of maximum influence, and thereby driving consumers to purchase.

Cruise tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors worldwide.

This Element is an excerpt from Competing in Tough Times: Business Lessons from L.

Retail marketing is undergoing cataclysmic change, driven by upheavals in media, consumer attitudes, and the retail industry itself.

Competing in Tough Times brings together the powerful new strategies that world-class retailers, like Trader Joe's, Costco, and Nordstrom, are using today to survive--and thrive--in a brutally unforgiving retail environment.

Competing in Tough Times brings together the powerful new strategies that world-class retailers, like Trader Joe's, Costco, and Nordstrom, are using today to survive--and thrive--in a brutally unforgiving retail environment.

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.

This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata.

This book is about promising collaborative avenues for connecting Finland and India with value propositions for enterprises, consumers and investors worldwide.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the standard of 'full protection and security' (FPS) in international investment law.

This book explores the unfinished India-Pakistan Trade normalisation agenda (building upon the themes covered in the book "e;India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations"e; published by Springer in 2014) and discusses the steps that must be undertaken in order to move the bilateral engagement forward.