The Change of Support Problem (COSP) reflects a possibility that the outcome of an urban analysis may depend critically on the researcher's choice of territorial units. To verify this assumption, the present study examines the association between population growth and population size of...

According Zipf's Law, city sizes follow a Pareto distribution, with the rank (R) of a city i being proportional to its size (S): R(i)=A*S-α or ln(R) = ln(A)-α*ln(S), where α is a slope gradient or Pareto parameter, varying around 1. However, several empirical studies, carried out to...

Economic, political, and demographic changes, technological advances, two crashes of the economy, ethical scandals, and other developments in the business environment have strained the roles and enrollments of American universities' business schools. The b-schools have not responded adequately....

In this study we statistically assess the relationship between corporate characteristics, environmental contribution, and financial performance. To this end, we compare the financial performance of all US corporations that have composed the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexs (DJSI), being the most...

A manufacturer commonly distributes through a set of retailers who are authorized to sell its product; demand-enhancing services may also be provided by the manufacturer. These services may be granted to all authorized retailers (uniform service provision) or to a favored few authorized...

Direct selling (DS) is simultaneously a business model, a channel of distribution, and an activity engaged in by its distributors. In this paper, we provide a framework for analyzing and discuss academic research on the DS distribution model.We focus in particular on research that develops...

We analyze a channel of distribution where a monopolistic manufacturer, as leader of the channel, selects distribution intensity and wholesale price, and independent retailers follow by selecting price. Retailer competition is analyzed using a new model that combines the Salop model of circular...

An explanatory model of regional inequality is proposed, which attempts to explain a spatial distribution of different income groups. According to this model, such a distribution is a function of the relation between the cost of living in a particular geographic area and actual income of its...

Though individual studies of regional disparity may deal with separate development measures - population growth, wages, welfare, regional productivity, etc. - the use of an integrated indicator is often essential, particularly if a comparative (cross-country) analysis is required. In order to...

The present analysis of urban clusters (UCs) in Canada deals with two matters of immediate interest: a) investigating the spatial autocorrelation of development levels in towns within such clusters, and b) ascertaining the physical sizes of UCs in Canada (i.e. the spatial extent of the area of...