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Exploring a National Database of Commercial Activity

By Dr. Jim Simmons, Pina Barbiero, Gleb Bylov, Shizue Kamikihara, Garbor Zsigovics

The Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity has begun an ambitious project: to describe the...

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"Greyfield" Shopping Centres: Myth or Reality?

By Dr. Ricardo Gomez-Insausti, Tansel Erguden and Dr. Ken Jones

With new forms of retailing such as big-boxes and B2C e-commerce expanding in North America, the future...

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Applications of GIS: Bank Mergers, Acquisitions and the Canadian Competition Laws

By Eliot Hugh MacDonald

Recent merger proposals among major Canadian banks have required that the government, for the first time, review mergers of such size, complexity and impact...

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Entertainment Cross-Shopping: A Comparative Analysis

By Dr. Shuguang Wang, Dr. Ricardo Gomez-Insausti, Marco Biasiotto, Pina Barbiero and B. McNally

The idea of increasing marginal profits of shopping centres through cross-shopping in relation to...

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Clusters of Commercial Locations in Canada: A Multivariate Analysis by FSA

By Jim Simmons, Sara Simmons and David Tenenbaum

 With this paper, the CSCA continues the sequence of analyses describing the National Commercial Structure (NCS).  NCS is best described as the...

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The Externality Affects of Mall Anchors

By Dr. Maurice Yeates, Andy Charles and Dr. Ken Jones

Since the days when merchants first traded and sold goods in the bazaars and markets of antiquity, externalities...

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B2B & B2C: Recent Developments in E-Commerce

By Dr. Wieslaw Michalak

Gone are doubts about the pace of change in the global marketplace and rate of expansion of business-to-consumers (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) models of e-commerce.  Very...

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Retail Sales and Retail Location

By Jim Simmons

This report is the first in a series of studies focusing on the 'National Commercial Structure', defined as the geography of commercial activity across the country, including...

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Top of the E-Class - Ranking and Best Practices of over 170 Web Sites

By Shirley Dawe and Wendy Evans with Marion Denney

This monograph presents a detailed benchmarking of the best practices of over 170 e-tailing sites on a series of 19 indicators. ...

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Canada's Leading Retailers: Characteristics, Strategies & Dominance

By Ricardo Gomez-Insausti

This paper provides an overview of the adjustments in market strategies and investment process that Canada's top eighty-one retail corporations have carried out to...

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The GTA @ Y2K: The Dynamics of Change in the Commercial Structure of the Greater Toronto Area

By Dr. Maurice Yeates

This research monograph is a time capsule, an analysis of trends, and a set of forecasts.  As a time...

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