Download or read book Retailing in the European Union written by Stewart Howe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As retailing becomes increasingly important in global economics, the similarities and differences of retailing from country to country are now more evident. This unique and timely study of retail structures across Europe, gives an insightful overview of the internationalization of retailing and asks important questions regarding the effectiveness of different retailing sectors. With chapters on Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, this contemporary study examines the extent to which Europe's increasingly homogenous environment applies to retailing. By considering overall structural and socio-economic variables of country-to-country retailing, it draws fascinating conclusions on efficiency and competition within the European Union. A major contribution to the field of European retail studies, this significant work in comparative legislation is essential reading for anyone studying retailing at postgraduate or undergraduate level or with an interest in comparative economics.
Download or read book Retailing in the European Union written by Stewart Howe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely study of the difference retail structures across Europe, this book offers an insightful overview of the internationalization of retailing and asks important questions about the effectiveness of different retailing sectors.
Download or read book Wal Mart s European Business Strategy written by Tomislaw Dalic and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: very good, Maastricht University (Business Administration), course: European Business Startegy, language: English, abstract: How many retailers would one expect to be in the top ten of the global fortune 500? There is one, and it has a firm second position, leaving behind mammoth companies such as Ford and General Motors (www.fortune500.com). Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer with 195 billion dollars in revenue in the year 2000, with operations mainly concentrated in the United States. Renowned in the United States for their discount centres, they have diversified into wholesaling to sustain the explosive growth of the seventies and eighties. Making use of acquired knowledge in distribution and inventory management technology, these new formulas proved to be profitable as well. However, the United States of America were not big enough to satisfy the needs of such a giant company, and international expansion was inevitable. After entry in South-America and Asia, Europe is the next market to be penetrated by Wal-Mart. The time seems right, as extensive liberalization has opened up the European Union and far-reaching economic integration between member states have created a huge common market, offering scale economies in purchasing and distribution similar to U.S. operations. Wal-Mart can use experience from previous foreign expansions to implement the correct strategy for Europe. This paper analyses Wal-Mart’s European strategy, the rational behind its move to Europe and implications for its European competitors. It explains the following problem statement: Wal-Mart’s entry into the European market was a strategic move rather than the pursuit of a growth opportunity. A brief review of Wal-Mart’s history will be followed by the factors explaining their success in the United States, coming together in a concept called “strategic fit”. After a short summary of their foreign expansion into South-America to stress the importance of the transferability of the concept of strategic fit, a description of the European retail industry will be given. Then the European retail industry is analysed with the help of the generic five forces model from Porter. The paper ends with a conclusion hinting at the future of the European retail market.
Download or read book Buyer Power and Its Impact on Competition in the Food Retail Distribution Sector of the European Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared for the European Commission - GDIV, study contract No. IV/98/ETD/078 by Dobson Consulting.
Download or read book The Effects of the European Union on Retail in Sweden written by Wendy Colleen Head and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Union and the Race for Foreign Direct Investment in Europe written by Pervez N. Ghauri and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries create different type of incentives for foreign firms, such as; direct incentives/subsidies, tax relief, soft loans and preferred handling. This volume aims to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are being created by this race for FDI.
Download or read book Retailing in the European Economic Area 1997 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law and Economics of Buyer Power in EU Competition Policy written by Frederik van Doorn and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trend of retail concentration across the European Union has raised concerns on the buyer power that retailers may have in the relation with their suppliers. Following calls that the changing nature of competition demands a change in EU competition policy, this book investigates whether there is a 'gap' in current EU competition law concerning the potential harmful effects of buyer power from an economic efficiency perspective. Using a Law and Economics approach, the book identifies the potential concerns and assesses whether they can be addressed under the existing rules. While some critical comments are in place with regard to the consumer welfare standard that is applied, the book's analysis does not indicate that the current substantive legal framework of EU competition law is unfit to address the (potential) harmful effects of buyer power. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: EU Law, Competition Law, Commercial Law, Trade Law, Law and Economics]
Download or read book How Unified Is the European Union written by Sverker Gustavsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World politics has been surprised recently by two sudden developments. The first took place around the beginning of 2007, when the question of global warming rose abruptly to the top of the agenda, after having been a factor in the background. The second occurred in the autumn of 2008, when the rules for a global economy started inspiring great anxiety, after having been regarded as a source of stability. These two shifts took place independently, but their consequences will require common management. The regulatory structure underlying the world’s economic, legal, and political systems needs to be revised. This presents the EU with the greatest challenge it has ever faced. The point is that this global challenge comes on top of the pr- lems already posed by markets, welfare states, security, energy, and movements of population. The additional challenge is furthermore of such a kind that a deeper discussion of the very structure of the Union is difficult to avoid.
Download or read book Retailing in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares and contrasts retailing in Western Europe with retailing in the United States. Discusses supermarkets, hypermarkets, franchising, apparel retailers, auto dealers, etc. Special topics include social/cultural differences and retail implications of the European Union.
Download or read book Retailing in the European Economic Area written by Statistical Office of the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The European Union s Foreign Economic Policies written by Andreas Dür and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiation of international trade agreements, the global regulation of the financial services sector, and the provision of aid to developing countries. This book shows how principal-agent theory can be used to shed new light on this complex of policy areas. In particular, the contributions to this volume analyze delegation, control, and agent strategies in a variety of principal-agent relationships shaping the EU’s foreign economic policies: mainly those involving interest groups and governments; governments and the European Commission; and the European Union and international organizations. The chapters, written by leading experts in the field, offer empirically-rich studies of various areas of the EU’s external economic relations including trade, financial regulation, accounting standards and global regulation through the G7/G8. The book is aimed at researchers and advanced students interested in the EU, international economic relations, and principal-agent theory. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Download or read book European Consumer Guide to the Single Market written by Commission of the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retailing in Europe written by Valia Aranitou and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2025-05-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The retail industry is rapidly changing as technologies advance and digital retail becomes more accessible. This book explains ongoing transformations within the retail sector, offering insight into labor market changes, real estate challenges, sustainable development. It attempts to predict the survival options of retail, where on the one hand the need for social participation create the alternative of participatory retail, while on the other hand the dominance of platforms can lead to what we would call retail feudalism. Using the European retail sector as a case study, the authors analyze strategic adaptations and potential policies to support the transition. Emphasizing the necessary collaboration required between policymakers, industry professionals, and academics, the book includes key information for stakeholders ready to make sustainable decisions today.
Download or read book Retail Trade Food Stores European Union written by Business Information Agency Staff and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Strategies in Retailing written by John Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large and medium sized retailers have increased their international operations substantially over the last 25 years. This is evident in: the number of countries to which these retailers expand; the growing international sales of retailers; and the heightening of the level of commitment of retailers to their international activity – a trend that is likely to continue over the next decade as general globalization in the service industries increases. The managerial implications of the moves to become global are considerable. Different retailers are pursuing different approaches, to varying degrees of success and are no longer simply multi-national, but are also multi-continental. Consequently, existing concepts and theories of international business fit uneasily in explanations of international retailing, so new corporate strategies need to be explored. Featuring in-depth studies of seven retailers, by international scholars from Japan, the UK and Sweden, Global Strategies in Retailing explores recent developments in strategy that are related to international retailing and in particular, the emergence of a Global Portfolio Strategy. As such, this book will be important reading for all international business and retailing students and academics researching in these areas.
Download or read book Store based Retail Market Openness written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report demonstrates that the EU Member States vary with regard to store-based retail market integration (openness), measured in terms of economic contribution of foreign retailers to local retailing markets. While a high degree of integration, i.e. large presence and economic impact of foreign-controlled retailers, is observed in the Member States that joined the EU after 2004, old EU Member States are mostly characterized by low levels of retail market integration. Moreover, as the analysis of outward flow of investments suggest the integration of the retail sector in the EU is mostly driven by the largest countries of EU15, such as Germany, France, the UK, and less so by Italy and Spain. Apart from differences between the countries, there are also crucial differences within the countries considering the performance of foreign and domestic retailers. Foreign-controlled retailers are not only larger than their domestic counterparts (in terms of turnover and number of persons employed per enterprise), but also turn out to be more productive (in terms of turnover and value added per person employed). Lastly, this report illustrates that there exists only a weak (negative) correlation between the retail establishment restrictiveness and the degree of retail integration. Nonetheless, due to data limitation and non-experimental design, this result should be interpreted tentatively.
