Author : Andrew William Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Competition
ISBN :
Author : Charles Fishman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594200762
An award-winning journalist breaks through the wall of secrecy to reveal how the world's most powerful company really works and how it is transforming the American economy.
Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135929122
Now that Wal-Mart has conquered the US, can it conquer the world? As Wal-Mart World shows, the corporation is certainly trying. For a number of years, Wal-Mart has been the largest company in the United States. Now, though, it is the largest company in the world. Its global labor practices and outsourcing strategies represent for many what contemporary economic globalization is all about. But Wal-Mart is not standing still, and is opening up stores everywhere. From Germany to Beijing to Mexico City to Tokyo, more than a billion shoppers can now hunt for bargains at a Wal-Mart superstore. Wal-Mart World is the first book to look at this incredibly important phenomenon in global perspective, with chapters that range from its growth in the US and impact on labor relations here to its fortunes overseas. How Wal-Mart manages this transition in the near future will play a significant role in the determining the character of the global economy. Wal-Mart World's impressively broad scope makes it necessary reading for anyone interested in the global impact of this economic colossus.
Author : Philip H. Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1350183083
Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how opposition to this has encouraged even the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes. This revised edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms.
Author : Neil M. Coe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This path-breaking collection brings together seminal contributions from the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalisation of retailing.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : City planning
ISBN :
Author : Richard K. Vedder
Publisher : A E I Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Wal-Mart is under attack--from labor unions, urban planners, globalization critics, and community activists. Looking at Wal-Mart, the authors review conditions before and after Wal-Mart entered a local market and look more broadly at Wal-Mart's impact on wages, productivity growth and inflation. Vedder and Cox show that the retailer has been a force for good.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2001
Category : City planning
ISBN :
Author : Michael J. Hicks
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1934043389
While there have been other books on Wal-Mart, none has provided scholarly economic analysis of the impact of this retail giant. "The Local Economic Impact of Wal-Mart" offers significant empirical evidence which highlights important questions.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309137284
In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets. Instead, those living in "food deserts" must rely on convenience stores and small neighborhood stores that offer few, if any, healthy food choices, such as fruits and vegetables. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) convened a two-day workshop on January 26-27, 2009, to provide input into a Congressionally-mandated food deserts study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. The workshop, summarized in this volume, provided a forum in which to discuss the public health effects of food deserts.
