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Hot Spots in Canadian Retailing Revisited

By Dr. Ken Jones and Tansel Erguden

 This report updates, identifies and interprets the changes in the major...

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Supply Side Segmentation in Canadian Markets

By Dr. Ricardo Gomez-Insausti and Dr. Ken Jones

This research report focuses on the segmentation of Canadian markets from the supply side of the economy in contrast...

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The Location Strategies of Commercial Formats

By Jim Simmons and Gabor Zsigovics

This is the third in a series of papers that describe Canada's national commercial system, which can be defined as the set of all...

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The Status of Retail and Commercial Activity in Smaller Centres

By Dr. Jim Simmons, Dr. Ken Jones and Gleb Bylow

This report describes another exploration into the variation in commercial service provisions across...

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Beijing: The Retail Response to the Economic Reform

By Yinshe Sun

The CSCA has a history of research on the commercial structure of international cities.  This paper and a companion study explore the retail structure of Beijing.  In...

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Recent Developments in Canadian E-Commerce

By Wieslaw Michalak

The purpose of this report is to review recent trends in Canadian e-commerce in the context of the new economy.  To this...

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Visualizing Retail Hot Spots in Canada

By Anita Zelic and Paul Dunphy

Competition plays a major role in shaping the contemporary retail environment.  The competitive landscape reflects both the location and distribution of stores and the...

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North American Markets: Predicting Metropolitan Growth and Change

By Dr. Maurice Yeates and Willy Cheng

Which metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada are likely to be 'hot', 'warm' and 'cold' markets during...

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