The Directory of 12,500 Trade and Professional Associations in the EU lists the postal and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, chairman, secretary general, contact person and publications of some 800 EU associations. Also included are details of some 11,700 national member organizations. Four indexes provide easy reference to this essential volume.

The material included in this set draws on international sources from the 1950s to the present day to provide an invaluable collection on retailing.

Multidimensional auction mechanisms is the new pricing model for e-business. By 2002 Business-to-business Internet auctions are estimated to reach $52.6 billion, while dynamically priced transactions will be 27% of the value of business-to-business electronic transactions. Combining economics with computer science this book is designed to empower business people to apply this new technology for the design, implementation and upgrade of electronic markets. For professionals, consultants, dotcomers and technology managers, as well as researchers in economics, information systems, operations management, computer science and observers of the e-Commerce phenomenon.

Explains the major changes in the textile and clothing industry that are taking place mostly in the USA. Shows the central role of information systems in providing data on sales at the retail level that is communicated back through the system to garment distributors, manufacturers, designers, and to the starting point: the manufacturers of the cloth from which the garments are made.

Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis provides a comprehensive introduction to the applied economic modeling of trade policies. The book introduces the reader to trade policy concepts, welfare measurement, accounting frameworks, and both partial and general equilibrium modeling approaches. It first covers these topics at a basic level and then introduces the reader to a number of more advanced topics: imperfect competition, dynamic modeling, labor market structure, and environmental modeling. Economic graduate students, professors, and policy makers will find the collection to be an important reference tool. To accompany the book, chapter-based modeling files, including model code and datasets, are available over the internet at http://www.intereconomics.com/handbook.

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson's Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson's Bay Company's employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.

This edition of "The Fairchild Dictionary of Retailing" clearly defines terms commonly used in all parts of the retail industry, from retail advertising to merchandising and displays. This comprehensive reference for students and faculty in all retailing and merchandising programs lists over 10,000 terms alphabetically with extensive cross-referencing. Global terms used in the retailing industry, including descriptions of retail market structures of countries around the world, are covered. This up-to-date reference book also includes important legislation related to the retail industry, government agencies, and merchandise marts, new terms related to the e-retailing business, extensive Internet resources, and a bibliography.

This textbook simulates the product development experience of a buyer or product developer at Perry's, a fictional department store, while exposing students to the principles, concepts, knowledge, and skills needed for success in a real-world setting. Perry's Department Store: A Product Development Simulation covers the entire process of developing a new line of jeans, including defining the customer, conceptualizing the product line, selecting fabric and trims, and completing a spec pack. A CD-ROM is included and provides resources and worksheets to complete the simulation.

So you have a website. You have a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Do you know how to make them work together and work for you? Your marketing program must start with a strong foundation comprised of your website, brand, and content. Once that foundation is established, you can build upon it. Social Media Marketing for Your Business shows you how to create a winning marketing plan by carefully setting goals, creating strategy, and targeting audiences. This book will help you take a long-term approach to building and maintaining an effective marketing strategy with social media as a main component. You will learn how to: Create a cohesive content plan with strategy and goals; Set goals and measure their success; Increase website traffic; Manage your online reputation; Maximize your engagement and interaction on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and more.

The advent of the Internet has added another dimension to the way that merchandise reaches consumers. Integrating this technology with traditional retailing methods has become the dominant retail model that students of retailing should all be aware of. Multi-Channel Retailing identifies and explains the underlying principles of e-retailing and its relationship with conventional retail methods. The strategic integration of brick-and-mortar stores, electronic retailing, and direct marketing methods forms the core of this text. It begins with the roots of the multi-channel approach, analyzes key players, and explores the techniques that are used to develop effective online stores and synchronize cross-channel functions. The book will provide readers with a guide for implementing and operating a successful e-retailing business. Students will learn that a key element of developing multi-channel strategies is understanding consumer needs and implementing appropriate technologies. Features: -- Profiles of key multi-channel retailers at the end of each unit -- Case studies and Internet-based activities -- Instructor's Guide includes solutions to review questions, case study problems, and sample tests -- PowerPoint(r) Presentation highlights key points in the text

Using original qualitative ethnographic field interviews and quantitative field survey results, Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy explores the rationale for and model of 'off the books' consumption in a borderlands environment.

New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced and then neglected. Fur trade studies have been criticized for remaining outside the current mainstream of historiography, in particular for paying scant attention to the rich insights to be found in approaches adopted from the fields of social and gender history. This volume redresses some of those omissions.

This book integrates the concept of design into the existing framework of industrial performance, international trade and comparative advantage in trade and industrial phenomena, which increasingly have been affected by design characteristics of tradable goods. Design, capability and their evolution are introduced into current theories of trade to explain the reality of international trade in the early twenty-first century and the possibility of design-based comparative advantage is explored. Toward that end, the concepts of design, architecture, organizational capability and productivity are introduced, as are their interactions and evolution. The author starts from the fact that firms' selection of design locations precedes that of production locations and that a new product's initial production location is usually the same as its design location. In other words, design matters in explaining today's trade phenomena. Thus, this book analyzes product design and its evolution in the context of the comparative advantage theory. The author argues that the concept of Ricardo's comparative advantage must be reinterpreted in a more dynamic way than in the past, with changing labor input coefficients treated as variables and driven by international capability-building competition between factories. Some of the many topics dealt with in this volume include a capability-architecture view of industrial comparative advantage, a design-based view of manufacturing, the evolution of manufacturing capabilities, Ricardian comparative advantage with changing labor input coefficients, comparative design cost and selection of design locations and a design process model behind comparative design cost. In this way, the behaviors of factories, product development projects, firms, industries and national economies in today's global competition are described and analyzed in the most realistic way.

From the 1960s onwards the clothing industry in the Neth- erlands and elsewhere in the European Union, experienced a deep crisis. Numerous firms went bankrupt and workers lost their jobs. Imports from low wage countries started providing the bulk of retailers' collections. However, in the 1980s a surprising development took place. In Amsterdam a substantial number of new small clothing firms mostly run by Turkish immigrants were established focusing on short-cycle production. During the 1990s most of these disappeared again. At the same time the import pattern changed to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. Stephan Raes shows that the large retailers have become the most powerful players in the sector, and he places the developments against the background of transformations in the political economy of the Netherlands and Turkey.
Stephan Raes is an economic anthropologist who currently works at the department of foreign economic relations of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands.

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