This text investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on hostility toward Korean merchants in New York and Los Angeles, the book shows how the "middle-man" economic role which Koreans often occupy, between low-income, minority customers on the one hand and large corporate suppliers on the other, leads to conflict with other groups. Further, the book shows how ethnic conflicts strengthen ties within Korean communities as Koreans organize to protect themselves and their businesses. The book scrutinizes the targeting of Korean businesses during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the 1990 African American boycotts of Korean stores in Brooklyn. it explores Korean merchants' relationships with each other as well as with Latin American employees, Jewish suppliers and landlords, and government agencies. In each case, the book's analysis reveals how Korean communities respond to general scapegoating through collective action, political mobilization and other strategies.

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.

Since the 1980s, economists have used the concept of strategic trade policy, which takes account of imperfect competition and increasing returns in the international marketplace, to criticize conventional views about free trade. According to the new view, a government can take strategic steps to raise its income at another country's expense--by subsidizing exports or erecting trade barriers, protecting certain firms from foreign competition, or promoting the development of new industries. This volume looks at the experience of specific industries in order to determine the effectiveness of strategic trade policy in promoting economic growth.
The nine papers cover the U.S. and European auto industries, the U.S. steel industry, the commercial aircraft industry, airline deregulation in Scandinavia, and labor and industrial policy in Korea and Taiwan. The authors refine the basic techniques for measuring policy effectiveness, extend them to encompass industry dynamics, and test the implications of new trade models.
International economists and trade experts in government and business will find important new insights into the role of strategic trade policy in international competitiveness.

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.

Dieses Buch liefert eine Vielzahl von Anregungen, Ladengeschafte und die Prasentation der Ware so zu gestalten, dass dem Kunden die Kaufentscheidung leichter fallt und die Kauffreude wachst. Der unterhaltsam geschriebene Text enthalt viele Insights aus der Praxis. Enrique Strelow ruckt die Marken- und Werbewirkung in eine neue Perspektive, weil er den Kaufakt aus der Sicht des Kaufenden betrachtet und mit den Erkenntnissen der Neuroscience analysiert. Das bereichert die Vorstellungswelt und Gestaltungsspielraum von Verkaufern, Handlern und Marketiers. Dies ist ein Buch fur Praktiker. Es werden die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse der Shopper NeuroScience im Hinblick auf ihre praktische Relevanz "vor Ort" verstandlich dargestellt. Da es fur alle Praktiker insbesondere um Umsatz geht, gibt es im Buch zahlreiche Anregungen, Beispiele und Bebilderungen. Ein wichtiges Buch fur alle, die Umsatze generieren wollen oder mussen. Aus dem InhaltErkenntnisse der Hirnforschung und ihre Bedeutung fur Marketing, Sales und HandelWarum zwei Drittel aller neu eingefuhrten Marken und Produkte floppen - und was man dagegen tun kannWarum der Preis eine wichtige Rolle spielt, aber beileibe nicht die einzige Moeglichkeit ist, einen Shopper zu motivierenWie Licht und Beleuchtung die Shopper Motivation positiv beeinflussen Leserstimmen Dieses Buch ist anders als andere Bucher. Es lockt nicht mit schnellen Patentloesungen, die oftmals zu folgenreichen und kostspieligen Entscheidungen fuhren, sondern bricht mit vertrauten Denk- und Handlungsmustern. Dabei zeigt es Optimierungspotenziale auf. Eine lohnenswerte Lekture! Heinz Zurheide, Zurheide Feine Kost KG "Enrique Strelow begleitet uns schon seit vielen Jahren. Viele seiner innovativen und wirksamen Ideen haben die Umsatze unserer Markte beflugelt." Karsten Nusken, Edeka Nusken, Soest "Seit einigen Jahren leistet Enrique Strelow wichtige Beitrage zur Inszenierung und Licht-Gestaltung unserer Neu-Eroeffnungen und Markt-Modernisierungen. Die Umsatzentwicklung spricht eindeutig fur die Qualitat seiner Konzepte." Andreas Nolte, Edeka Nolte, Wiesbaden

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