Measuring the Impact of the Internet on Shopping Centre Vitality
By Dr. Tony Hernandez, Dr. Ricardo Gomez-Insausti and Marco Biasiotto
The emergence of internet-based shopping channels in the early 1990s in North America was...
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Retail Structure of Beijing
By Dr. Shuguang Wang and Dr. Ken Jones
Retailing always has been a prominent element of urban morphology. As a city evolves and expands, so does its retail sector. ...
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The Economic Performance of the Greater Toronto Area
By Dr. Ricardo Gomes-Insausti and Dr. Ken Jones
This paper summarizes the analysis undertaken by the CSCA as part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Vital Signs project. Vital Signs...
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Recent Changes in China's Retail Sector
By Dr. Shuguang Wang and Dr. Ken Jones
Given the large body of literature related to economic reform and regional development in China, surprisingly little attention...
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Simulating the Demand for Consumer Service Space by Type of Delivery System
The spatial structure of the consumer service industry in the GTA, relating to an immediate market population of 5 million, is undergoing major...
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The Department Store Shuffle: Rationalization and Change to the Greater Toronto Area
By Dr. Michael J. Doucet
Retailing, the oldest business in the world, is the sale of merchandise to the consumer. The store or...
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The Status of Corporate Retail Planning in Canada
By Dr. Tony Hernandez and Marco Biasiotto
This current research report documents significant and new insights into the real estate decisions of major...
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The Survey of Corporate Retail Planning: Summary Findings
By Dr. Tony Hernandez and Marco Biasiotto
The Canadian retail system has undergone significant structural transformation over the last decade. Corporate concentration,...
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Commercial Activity in Canada in 2000
By Dr. Jim Simmons and Shizue Kamikihara
With this report, the CSCA continues to monitor the performance of the retail and service sectors within the...
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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
This research monograph is a time capsule, an analysis of trends, and a set of forecasts. As a time...
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