The special issue International Journal of Managerial Finance on real estate looks at various markets and assets and generally finds that while real estate assets offer the investor opportunities for diversification across various markets while being efficient in terms of risk and return. Bai,...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Change in the Financial Service Sector - Challenges and Effects -- Money Laundering Regulatory and Compliance Regimes, By Martin Cheek -- ETFS: What is the Price of Admission? By Dayna Goodwin and Dr. Nouriel Roubini -- Online Document Storage and Delivery...

Fashion is everywhere! It transcends domains and applies to almost any kind of product (e.g., apparel, cars, digital devices, food, literature, travel, music, house decoration and personal wellness). Fashion greatly influences public interest, media coverage, and product success. The global...

The eleventh edition of Who's Buying at Restaurants and Carry-Outs is based on unpublished data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey-you can't get these data online. It examines how much Americans spend on eating out by the demographics that count: age,...

BOOM brings together the insights of dozens of market leaders in a wide array of industries, insiders who have learned (sometimes the hard way) what works and what doesn't in the battle for the hearts and minds of the ''ultimate power consumer.'.

As wine economist Mike Veseth peels away layer after layer of the money-taste-wine relationship he discovers the wine buyer's biggest mistake and learns how to avoid it, enlists in the "restaurant wars" and toasts anything but Champagne. His engaging and enlightening book will surprise, inform,...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Turning toward Things Accumulation, Attachment, and Agency -- ONE: The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of Attaching to Inanimate Objects -- TWO: On Target Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of Design...

Purchasing and Materials tie-up huge capital in any industry. When managed properly it has greatest scope to improve profits. It is a actually a subject that deals with several R?s ? right source, right price, right quantity, right quality, right place and right time. All these R?s have been...

This book explores the relationship between space, place and consumption, aiming to develop integrative approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production and consumption of space and place. The result is a varied, engaging, and innovative study of consumption and its role in...