Research Insights Archive

The Retail Structure of the Greater Toronto Area

By Dr. Jim Simmons, Dan Montgomery and Sara Simmons

 The 1997 version of the CSCA annual handbook focuses on Canada's largest market, the Greater Toronto...

Retail Border Wars III: Case Studies of International Retailers Operating in Canada

By Wendy Evans and Steven Cox

No Canadian retailer is immune to the effects of global competition.  Seventy of the top 100 retailers in the world now have international operations. ...

Internet Retailing: Current Hype or Future Reality

By Dr. Ken Jones and Marco Biasiotto

Electronic non-store retailing has the potential to reshape the contemporary retail landscape, whether it be CD-ROM catalogues, cyber-shopping malls,...

Retail Border Wars II: Canadian Cases in International Retailing

By Wendy Evans

The North American retail industry, including Canada, the United States and Mexico, has undergone dramatic change over the last decade, particularly in the last five years.  In...

The Functional Reconfiguration of a Financial Services Delivery Network

 - Consumer Activity Based Spatial Interaction Modelling Applied to an Alternative Approach to Delivery Planning

By Wayne Cardwell

The financial services industry is becoming more...

The Structure of the British Rail System

By Steve Burt, Alan Hallsworth, Jonathan Reynolds

Even though retailing is becoming more global, local retail systems are influenced to an inordinate degree by national cultural, institutional and...

Retail Opportunities in the People's Republic of China

By Yin-She Sun

 Retailing is growing rapidly in China, significantly affecting the national economy as well as the daily life of over a billion people.  Retailing, which...