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Interpreting the Early Stages of the Self-service Revolution in Europe: the Modernization of Food Retailing in Spain, 1947-1972
Maixe-Altes, J Carles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article explores the Americanisation of food retailing in Spain while making a running comparison with developments in Britain and more especially, within the development of self-service techniques. This international comparison helps to ascertain the evolution and modernisation of food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578268
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Structural Change in Distribution Markets in Peripheral Europe: Spanish Food Retailing, 1950-2007
Maixe-Altes, J. Carles; Castro Balaguer, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The processes of structural change and modernisation in the food distribution industry have been submitted to different economic and institutional frameworks in European countries. Two essential factors have affected these changes: on one hand, the role of technical, financial and organisational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258556
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Customer-base concentration, profitability and distress across the corporate life cycle
Irvine, Paul; Park, Shawn Saeyeul; Yildizhan, Celim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a recently expanded data set on supplier-customer links, we examine how customer concentration affects firm profitability. We find that the relation between customer concentration and firm profitability is more complex than recent literature suggests. We confirm that customer concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259843
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Customer-base concentration, profitability and distress across the corporate life cycle
Irvine, Paul; Park, Shawn Saeyeul; Yildizhan, Celim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a recently expanded data set on supplier-customer links, we examine how customer concentration affects firm profitability. We find that the relation between customer concentration and firm profitability is more complex than recent literature suggests. We confirm that customer concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109740
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Competition and Market Strategies in the Swiss Fixed Telephony Market. An estimation of Swisscom’s dynamic residual demand curve.
Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259890
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Case Study: Does Korea Telecom’s (KT) Sustainability Achievements Follow the Ten Steps Approach?
Lee, Young-eun; Cave, Adam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Many companies have reduced greenhouse gas emissions and gone paperless, shrunk packaging and eliminated hazardous substances from their products. They also have dramatically reduced the amount of water and energy they consume and the amount of waste they produce. They have attracted highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265901
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How zero price affects demand?: experimental evidence from the Moroccan telecommunication market
Driouchi, Ahmed; Chetioui, Youssef; Baddou, Meryem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
To select one of several products (or to buy nothing) is a daily decision. Its foundations vary from one person to another and are based on perceptions, preferences, and other criteria. The standard theoretical perspective conveys that people choose options with the highest net benefit. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223361
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From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Comín Comín, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s … former national telecommunications monopolies to expand internationally. From the 1990s, a number of these firms … explores how the regulatory framework within which telecommunications incumbents evolved over the long-term helped shape their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283796
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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This essay concerns the ways in which public services – particularly household services such as communications, energy, water and transportation – have been regulated and deregulated, and analyses what consequences this has for users and citizens. Much of the deregulation of public services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283800
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Explaining Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the European Union: A Political Economy Perspective
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Revuelta, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-looking incumbents in telecommunications and electricity rapidly transformed themselves into some of the world’s leading Multinationals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283802