Retail and wholesale industries Books

If you are struggling … If you feel as if you and your team are working hard but you are not getting the results you want, you will find hundreds of specific things you can do today to WIN in retail. Throughout the book, look for WIN...

This book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability. The underlying...

Climate change represents the most important environmental challenge of our time. Organisations are responding by implementing governance processes and taking action to reduce their own emissions and the emissions from their supply chains and value...

This book is about intelligent clusters, cities, regions and their role in the globalization of innovation networks. It tells why intelligent environments are important today; and how we can create such environments.

Transportation Management is the most vital link in the supply chain today as it carriers the burden of "inventory in motion" in most modern supply chains.  This prook provides both a conceptual and deeply practical look at transportation,...

In recent years, we have witnessed huge economic and socio-political change in the Gulf. This book examines the rapid industrialization of the region and how local economies are starting to diversify away from petroleum, exploring how this transformative...

This new book focuses on the analysis of the online strategy and development of the luxury industry, tracing the evolution of the Internet from a means of communication to a trade and distribution channel. The author provides a comprehensive evaluation...

Retail is the essential link between production and consumption. The dynamics of a nation's economy cannot be fully understood without a good understanding of its retail sector. This book is written to achieve three broad objectives. First, it provides a...

With more than 500 major retailers like Albertsons, ALDI, Costco, and CVS now leveraging Instacart's fulfillment capabilities, retail brands are recognizing the huge potential of this channel to elevate their sales.As online grocery shopping continues to...

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as...

Published in 1985, "The Economics of Industries and Firms" is a vaulable contribution to Economics.

Have you ever wondered how some people earn a full-time income on eBay? Did you know that a select few eBay users are making over six figures a year on eBay?

As potentially the largest retail market, China has attracted a great number of foreign retail operations. Based on case study research, this book provides valuable insights international retailers need for success in China. The newly developed...

European retailers have successfully internationalised their activities in Europe but have been less successful in North America. American retailers have been successful in their home market but less so in Europe. The major European and American...

In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "socialist" retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism? This book examines the discourses that the...