New Vocational Ways and Qualifications for Professionalisation in the Second-Hand Sector

The sector analysis of the Second-Hand sector underpins that the sector seems tocomparatively heterogeneous on the European level. The numerous different kinds ofbusinesses and business fields along with the different corporate structures and employeescontribute to the high variety of the sector. A closer look at the sector, however, reveals thatthere are common features in the individual partner countries and on the European level, e.g.the employment structure, business fields, parallel trends, clientele as well as thedifferentiation of the enterprises acting within the sector into profit and non-profitcompanies. A great number of common features could be identified on the corporate level.Thus the corporate structures within a type of business (e.g. owner-operated businesses,franchiser companies, department stores) as well as the work tasks and processes arecomparatively similar within the different business fields. Against the background of theSecond-Hand sector as an autonomous sector with prospective growth, there is the option tocreate above all uniform and generally...