Trade & Retail

This proceedings volume highlights important points of achieving a balanced and sustained growth path from diverse economics and finance perspectives, touching on a wide array of economic and social analyses in India. Featuring contributions presented at the 2018 International Conference on Economics and Finance (ICEF-2018) held at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Goa, India, the enclosed papers explore topics such as inflation dynamics, information transmission in post-recession era, leverage effect and volatility asymmetry, structural change and economic growth and reforming tax systems, among others.The Indian economy today is remarkable and, not surprisingly, it is growing very rapidly. It has emerged as the fastest growing major economy in the world as per the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) and it is expected to be one of the top three economic powers of the world over the next 10 to15 years, backed by its strong democracy and partnership. At the backdrop of impressive progress of the Indian economy during the last two decades, the question that remains to be answered is does India still have a long way to go before it is functioning well as a market economy? This book critically examines the performance of the Indian economy at the national, state and sectorial levels.Featuring contributions from leading academicians, scholars and practitioners from Asia and the rest of the world, this book is an asset to students, professors, scholars, practitioners and policy makers in the areas of India economics, finance and sustainable development.

The 2019 International Conference on National Brand & Private Label Marketing is a unique academic forum for presenting and discussing original, rigorous and significant contributions from researchers around the world on marketing issues that retailers, store brand managers and national brand managers are facing.The three-day event covered a wide range of topics from varied fields including retailing, marketing, general business, psychology, economics and statistics. Further, it addressed diverse areas of application such as innovation, retail market structure, social media, consumer decision-making, store loyalty, assortment size, digital transformation, ethical aspects, cultural dimensions, and private label pricing. This volume gathers the proceedings of the 2019 NB&PL marketing conference in a collection of outstanding contributions that employ a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.

The book provides the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics restructuring China's manufacturing industries from the evolutionary economic geography perspective. These geographical and industrial shifts have enormous implications in and beyond China for what is possible in the post-crisis global economy. The book demonstrates that the interface between evolutionary economic geography approaches and other approaches (e.g. global value chain, global production network, institutional economic geography) could be a fertile area for further consideration.The two main audiences that this book appeals to are economic geography and regional science. The topics covered in the book are also relevant to development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies, offering academics, international researchers, post-graduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically sophisticated account of the evolutionary economic geography in China and its interaction with firm performance and regional economic development. The book is also attractive to national policy makers, since it engages directly with economic and industrial policy issues, such as industrial competitiveness, regional and national development, industrial and employment restructuring, and trade regulation.

Anna Kolmykova stellt eine interdisziplinäre Forschung der SC Integration sowie die Entwicklung eines Integrationsansatzes für die flexible Einbindung der internationalen Partner in die globale Supply Chain (SC) vor. Wie erfolgt eine effiziente Integration der internationalen Akteure in die SC? Wie können komplexe globale SC flexibilisiert und gleichzeitig integriert werden? Das entwickelte Konzept eines Integrators bietet eine innovative, machbare Lösung. Ob internationale Luftfahrtprogramme oder globale Logistiknetzwerke, der gezielte Einsatz der Integratoren verbessert die Zusammenarbeit und eröffnet neue Kooperationshorizonte. Das Konzept des Integrators kann in weiteren Branchen und interkulturellen Netzwerken implementiert werden.

This book compares the cross-border integration of infrastructures in Europe such as post, telecommunication and transportation in the 19th century and the period following the Second World War. In addition to providing a unique perspective on the development of cross-border infrastructures and the international regimes regulating them, it offers the first systematic comparison of a variety of infrastructure sectors, identifies general developmental trends and supplies theoretical explanations. In this regard, integration is defined as international standardization, network building and the establishment of international organizations to regulate cross-border infrastructures.

The book focuses on food security highlighting the role of indigenous knowledge and scientific research in addressing the plight of poor small-scale agricultural producers. Rapidly growing global population and global policies and management governing sustainability, hunger, food security and poverty alleviation are discussed. Additionally, impacts of probable climate change, research on land productivity and performance of dependable food crops i.e. cassava and pearl millet are discussed. Analyzed in great detail are roles of small stock, urban/peri-urban agriculture and advantages of climate-smart agriculture and participatory research in enhancing food security of the small-scale agricultural producers in Southern Africa.

Diese Festschrift, publiziert aus Anlass des 65. Geburtstages von Dr. Rolf Griebel, ehrt diesen für seine Leistungen als Generaldirektor der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, eine der weltweit bedeutendsten Universal- und Forschungsbibliotheken. Das Autorenverzeichnis umfasst bedeutende Beiträger aus dem deutschen und internationalen Informations- und Bibliothekswesen, aus Kultur, Wissenschaft und Politik. Die Beiträge thematisieren die moderne Bibliothek als Wissenszentrum und Wissensspeicher, als Dienstleister für Forscher, Lehrende und Studierende sowie als Gedächtnisinstitution und damit als Träger unseres kulturellen Selbstverständnisses. Ein dezidierter Schwerpunkt liegt auf der zukünftigen Rolle der Bibliothek in der digitalen Informationsgesellschaft. Ein Schriftenverzeichnis Rolf Griebels beschließt das Werk.

Die Handelspraxis hat die Potenziale von Premiummarken zur Betriebsstättenprofilierung und Differenzierung vom Wettbewerb bereits erkannt und führt verstärkt sogenannte Bio-Handelsmarken im Sortiment. Die Positionierung derartiger Eigenmarken setzt jedoch nicht nur die Kenntnis von Lücken im herstellerseitigen Angebot sowie eine hinreichende Sortiments- und Marktstruktur voraus, sondern auch ein entsprechendes Wissen über die Einflussgrößen des Kaufverhaltens. Annett Wolf entwickelt ein verhaltenswissenschaftliches Erklärungsmodell, überprüft dieses kausalanalytisch und leitet Implikationen für das Markenmanagement im Einzelhandel ab.

The selected papers in this volume were prepared under the research project on "EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Potential and Future Development (ENEPO)" funded by the EU Sixth Framework Program. They discuss the broad spectrum of development issues in the EU Eastern Neighborhood and economic relations between the enlarged EU and its Eastern neighbors in the former USSR. Individual chapters address areas of economic and social development, trade, energy, investment, migration, costs and benefits of economic reforms, development assistance and political economy of policy reforms. In particular, they examine interrelations and mutual synergies between trade liberalization, inflow of foreign investment, economic and institutional reforms and a reduction of income and development disparities. The publication thus closes an important knowledge gap in respect to the economic, social and institutional development of the CIS region and its economic relations with the EU.

Management-Coach Harry Holzheu hat aufgrund seiner jahrzehntelangen Praxis im Umgang mit Führungskräften und Entscheidern Eines festgestellt: In den letzten fünf Jahren ist die Verunsicherung grösser - das Vertrauen aber kleiner geworden. Mit diesem Buch zeigt er auf, wo die Quellen des Erfolgs zu suchen sind. Es motiviert Führungskräfte und leitet sie an, das Vertrauen der Kunden, der Geschäftspartner und der Mitarbeiter zurück zu gewinnen, zu pflegen und weiter auszubauen. Holzheu entwickelt einen Katalog an Maßnahmen und Verhaltensweisen - den Persönlichkeits-Code - mit dessen Hilfe Leser ihr Führungs- und Kommunikationsverhalten prüfen und konkret weiterentwickeln können.