The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the emerging markets and retail internationalization, with a special focus on the markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China, also known as BRIC countries. The paper relies on the fact that the emerging markets, especially...

The food supply chain has experienced major disruptions from both demand and supply sides during the Covid-19 pandemic. While some consequences such as food waste are directly caused by the disruption due to supply chain inefficiency, others are indirectly caused by a change in consumer's...

The paper deals with failures of capitalism or free market and presents the results of economic analysis by applying a logistic capital growth model. The application of a logistic growth model for analysis of economic bubbles reveals the fundamental causes of bubble formation—economic...

This volume, the result of the 21st Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (Ireland, 2013), describes the continuing problem of the decline of the postal sector in the face of electronic competition and offers strategies for the survival of mail services in a digital age. The 25 original...

Der Begriff „Event“ scheint allgegenwärtig. So strahlt beispielsweise der Fernsehsender RTLseit Anfang des vergangenen Jahres seine Spielfilmhighlights unter dem Label „RTL Eventkino“aus. Der Recruiting-Dienstleister Hobsons bietet jungen Absolventen zahlreiche „RecruitingEvents“...

In this keynote speech at the 2011 meeting of the Italian Association for Industrial Economics and Policy (SIEPI) in Rome, a basic framework to the study of competitiveness was presented together with the main findings of a recent publication on Sectoral Growth Drivers. Members of SIEPI worried...

This paper presents a simple North-South model of endogenous growth, based on learning by doing, which is consistent with the following empirical observations: (i) the price of investment goods relative to consumption goods has been falling for the last 40 years in most industrialized countries,...

The leisure industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in Britain (Grade,1998), and in the year 2000 accounted for approximately 10% of Britain's grossdomestic product (LeisureWeek, 2000a). Health clubs have been one of the fastestdeveloping business sectors within the leisure...

This paper deals with niche products or their distribution channels which have specific characteristics. They can be supported by electronic trade platforms.