Traditionelle Vertriebssysteme wie Filial- oder Verbundsysteme werden zunehmend durch aggressive Franchising-Netzwerke verdrängt, weil sie nach vorherrschender Meinung sehr gut zur Verfolgung anspruchsvoller Expansionsziele geeignet sind. Ein strategischer Erfolgsfaktor von...

Biofuels: An Introduction of Market and Impacts -- Technologies, Production Costs, and Support Policies -- Biofuels and Global Food Crisis.-Impact on Land -- Biofuels and Poverty -- Oil Price and Biofuels -- Biofuels and Climate Change Mitigation -- Policies for Biofuels: Direct Subsidies to...

In diesem essential liefert Reingard Jäger einen Überblick darüber, wie sich die Handelslandschaft des klassischen stationären Einzelhandels durch neue technologische Möglichkeiten in den letzten Jahrzenten verändert hat. Sie zeigt, welche Auswirkungen die neuen technologischen...

This book is devoted to the dynamic development of retailing. The focus is on various strategy concepts adopted by retailing companies and their implementation in practice. This is not a traditional textbook or collection of case studies; it aims to demonstrate the complex and manifold questions...

This is a multidisciplinary textbook on social commerce by leading authors of e-commerce and e-marketing textbooks, with contributions by several industry experts. It is effectively the first true textbook on this topic and can be used in one of the following ways: Textbook for a standalone...

This book analyzes the impact of the digital economy on customer satisfaction, shopping experience, resistance to change, script theory, and loyalty. The model introduced assumes that online markets have led to a redefinition of the concepts of loyalty and shopping scripts as a way to reduce...

This new Edition of Electronic Commerce is a complete update of the leading graduate level/advanced undergraduate level textbook on the subject. Electronic commerce (EC) describes the manner in which transactions take place over electronic networks, mostly the Internet. It is the process of...

This book introduces the new China (Shanghai) Free-Trade Zone one year after its launch. It examines in depth the economic, strategic and political effects of Chinese economic and financial reform. The results of the analysis are further clarified by comparing Shanghai with analogous...

Matthias Schu examines three main topics in his research: The intention of store-based retail and wholesale companies to open up an own online channel, factors determining the foreign market selection behavior of online retailers as well as factors affecting the speed in the internationalization...

Dieses Praxishandbuch erklärt grundlegend alle Facetten einer optimalen Planung und Realisierung von Kongressen, Tagungen und Konferenzen. Renommierte Experten und Brancheninsider beschreiben alle relevanten Stellschrauben und Erfolgsfaktoren: von Konzept und Formaten über Eventmarketing,...