Finds that both the foreign-owned and nationally owned enterprises applied the principles of participatory management, and observes that there were more similarities than differences as regards conditions of work. Includes an overview of the retail sector in Canada.

Report, forming a series, featuring part of the work on collective bargaining and the promotion of equality within the ILO's interdepartmental project on equality for women in employment. The aim of the project, as a whole, is to generate comprehensive data in order to further the development of...

The article considers main tendencies of development of trade networks during 2002 - 2012 and determines that the overwhelming majority of them increased their presence in foreign markets. It analyses specific features of manifestation of the expansion policy by trade structures depending on the...

The article offers a number of economic and mathematical models of study of dependence of economic development (volumes of the gross domestic product) upon various parameters of dynamics of domestic economic system: volumes of industrial production, retail trade, export prices on steel, income...

This paper investigates the economics of ”blue laws” or restrictions on shop-opening hours, most commonly imposed on Sunday trading. We show that in the presence of communal leisure or ”ruinous competition” externalities, retail regulations can have real effects in a simple general...

This article examines the relationship between the economic activities of Chinese migrants in the wholesale and retail sector in Lesotho, and the larger structural framework. More specifically, it investigates this relationship with reference to the general debate on Chinese migrants in Africa....

Direct sales and network marketing in particular are a growing area in non-store retail trade to which until the present moment there has been paid little attention in Bulgarian economic science. That area forms a global industry, which in 2012 realized a turnover of 167 bln dollars, owing to 90...

The commercial activities carried out by consumers’ cooperatives are conducive to satisfying the needs of a considerable part of the population with the necessary goods and services. As a relatively autonomous economic system in cooperative trade, the cooperative commercial network is an...

Many studies find that agricultural markets in developing countries are poorly integrated spatially. Traders' regional arbitrage plays a key role in integrating markets across space. We investigate the performance of regional arbitrage and the associated obstacles for rice traders in...