This book provides a uniform and coherent approach to the analysis of distribution systems in general and retail … distribution services is a principal determinant of economic outcomes in retail exchanges for both retailers and their customers …

This Handbook explores and critically examines current research in economics and marketing science on key issues in … retailing and distribution. Providing a rich perspective for the discussion of public policy, contributions from several … patterns to US merger policy in the retail context, the rise of the Internet, and consumer-to-consumer sales. The chapters …

Preface -- Introduction: The economics of the internet: an overview / Johannes M. Bauer and Michael Latzer -- Part II … Theoretical foundations -- 1. The industrial organization of the internet / Günter Knieps and Johannes M. Bauer -- 2. The internet … as a complex layered system / Stephen J. Schultze and Richard S. Whitt -- 3. A network science approach to the internet …

This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the … Internet's adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over … Internet system -- 6. Internationalization and digital divide -- 7. Co-evolution : localization of the Internet system -- 8 …

European internet entrepreneurship. The effects of both the public promotion of venture capital investments as well as the …. The book contains a wealth of unique data on the failure of European internet ventures and draws several technology and …

Introduction: Marketing in emerging economies / Marin Marinov -- 1. Data collection procedures equivalence in emerging … economy market research / Pervez N. Ghauri and Agnieszka Chidlow -- 2. Globalization, sustainability and marketing of health … care in emerging market economies : doing good while doing well / Van R. Wood -- 3. Marketing accountability in emerging …

Contents: 1. Big data and marketing analytics -- 2. Exploratory research design -- 3. Descriptive research design -- 4 …. Causal research design -- 5. Other topics in research and analytics -- 6. Analytics 1: big data -- 7. Analytics 2: marketing …New Methods of Market Research and Analysis prepares readers for the new reality posed by big data and marketing …

1. Introduction -- 2. Teaching and research in small business enterprise marketing : a critique and some alternatives … -- 12. Issues in cross-national comparisons applied to building theory on informal innovation in SMEs -- 13. Marketing …