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. ...
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Read MoreInternet 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,...
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Read MoreRetail 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...
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Read MoreThe 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...
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Read MoreThe 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...
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Read MoreRetail 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...
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Read MoreCommercial Structure of the Greater Toronto Area
By Dr. Jim Simmons, Marco Biasiotto, Dan Montgomery, Mark Robinson and Sara Simmons
The 1995 version of the CSCA annual handbook focuses on Canada's largest market, the...
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Read MoreThe Diversity of Retail Strips in Metropolitan Toronto
By Teresa Sinopoli
This study uses 38 variables that describe the 170 retail strips in Metro Toronto as inputs to a cluster analysis. The...
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Read MoreRetail Border Wars: Winning the International Retail Race
By Wendy Evans
The North American retail industry, including Canada, the United States and Mexico has undergone significant change over the last decade, and particularly over the last five years. ...
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Read MoreNew Development Patterns of Chinese Commercial Activity in the Toronto CMA
By Dr. Shuguang Wang
This research is a case study of ethnic Chinese commercial activity in Toronto. IT was undertaken for two reasons. First, the...
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Read MoreGreen Retailing: Source of Sources
By Hersch Jacobs
The following report considers the evolution of green retailing in order to provide an overview of this practice. It is intended primarily...
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Read MoreImproved Profits Via Improved Salesforce Selection: Using the "Ingleton Method"
By Colin Ingleton and Alan Hallsworth
This CSCA monograph is a collaboration between a geographer and a business psychologist. The prime aim is to introduce to retailers...
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Read MoreBusiness Applications for GIS Technology: A Canadian Perspective
By Lee Feliciano
This paper is a distillation of the thoughts of industry practitioners concerning the current status of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology in Canada. It is intended to...
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Read MoreThe Commercial Structure of Hong Kong
By Jim Simmons and Shizue Kamikihara
This report is the second in a series of case studies undertaken as part of the CSCA's project on the Competitive Position of Canadian...
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Read MoreBarcelona: The Commercial Structure
By Jim Simmons and Shizue Kamikihara
This report is the fourth in a series of case studies undertaken as part of the Centre's project on the Competitive Position of Canadian...
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Read MoreThe Management and Evaluation of Shopping Centre Mall Dynamics and Competitive Positioning Using a GIS Technology
Dr. Ken Jones, Michael Pearce and Marco Biasiotto
This research paper examines the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to the management of the regional shopping centre. The paper...
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Read MoreLocation-Allocation Models for Retail Site Selection
By Anthony C. Lea and Jim Simmons
This research paper introduces readers to the practical applicatios of location-allocation (L-A) models in the site selection process of retail chains.
Location-allocation modelling...
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Read MoreCommercial Opportunites in Mexico City
By Jim Simmons and Wendy Evans
This paper presents the result of two separate investigations of the Mexican market in order to give a timely look at a market that...
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Read MoreNew Formats In The Canadian Retail Economy
By Dr. Ken Jones, Wendy Evans and Christine Smith
The late 1980s and early 1990s witnessed a series of fundamental structural changes that have altered North American retailing. One major...
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Read MoreCommercial Activities In Canada: 1993
By Jim Simmons
The CSCA's inaugural publication illustrates the centre's commitment to raise awareness of the importance of the retail and service sectors within the economy. This handy reference source...
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