patterns to US merger policy in the retail context, the rise of the Internet, and consumer-to-consumer sales. The chapters … developments in technology, retail formats, and data availability. The book goes on to study the changes in online retailing and … 'big data', and to examine competition in specific retail sectors including gasoline stations, automobile dealerships …

This book provides a uniform and coherent approach to the analysis of distribution systems in general and retail … systems in particular. It develops the fundamentals of retail demand and supply, and demonstrates how the provision of … distribution services is a principal determinant of economic outcomes in retail exchanges for both retailers and their customers …

(2001), 'The Transfer of Retail Formats into Developing Economies: The Example of China', Journal of Retailing, 77 (2 … the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalization of retailing. In addition to focusing on the retail … corporations and their expansionary strategies, it explores the multi-faceted impacts of retail globalization on host economies and …

The world economy is near a critical crossroads, as a rising China, the greatest-ever beneficiary of US-led capitalism … corporations that can facilitate structural transformation, particularly in catching-up economies. Ozawa shows that China is now in …

distinguishes the competitor-focused strategies of the West from China's economy-centred approach to delineate how China has …

ecosystem in the Province of Ontario, Canada -- 9. Shanghai, China [Zhangjiang Park] innovation ecosystem -- 10. Singapore … for nations such as China, in the process of developing an innovation-based economy.'--Gu Peihua, Provost, Shantou … University, China. Increasingly, researchers and policymakers alike recognize that innovations are generated by complex and …

Elena Pisani -- 15. Research on social capital and regional development in China: what has been done so far and what should …

perspective / Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald, Maria Silgoner and Klaus Vondra -- 5. Globalisation and growth: the case of China / Linda …