Geography: how do we think spatially? -- The economy: what does it mean? -- Dynamics of capitalism: why is economic growth so uneven? -- Networks: how is the world economy interconnected? -- Transnational corporations: how do they keep it all together? -- Labour: are migrant workers the new...

This path-breaking collection, edited by two leading scholars in the field, brings together seminal contributions from the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalization of retailing. In addition to focusing on the retail corporations and their expansionary strategies, it explores...