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1 online resource (xiv, 410 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-397) and index. |
| Contents |
Geostrategy of global business : Wal-Mart and its historical forbears / Peter J. Hugill -- Wal-Mart nation : mapping the reach of a retail colossus / Matthew A. Zook and Mark Graham -- Wal-Mart's world / Steve Burt and Leigh Sparks -- Discounting northern capital : financing the world's largest retailer from the periphery / William Graves -- Wal-Mart Supercenter market share of grocery retailing in U.S. metropolitan areas / J. Dennis Lord -- Wal-Mart-scapes in rural and small-town America / Holly R. Barcus -- Falling prices, happy faces : organizational culture at Wal-Mart / A. Jane Dunnett and Stephen J. Arnold -- Wal-Mart : the new retail colossus / Ellen J. Rosen -- Labor and the Wal-Mart effect / Jennifer Bair and Sam Bernstein -- Wal-Mart as a phenomenon in the legal world : matters of scale, scale matters / Lea S. VanderVelde -- Institutional semiotics of Wal-Mart flyers and signage in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and China / Stephen J. Arnold [and others] -- Cathedrals of consumption : a political phenomenology of Wal-Mart / Barney Warf and Thomas Chapman -- Visualizing Wal-Mart as home : Where the Heart Is and King of the Hill / Benjamin Smith -- Examining Wal-Mart's relationships with local communities through investigation of advertising / Alecia M. Brettschneider and Fred M. Shelley -- Wal-Mart and partisan politics : from agricultural volatility to red-state culture / Fred M. Shelley, Adrienne M. Proffer, and Lisa DeChano -- Wal-Martification of Teotihuacán : issues of resistance and cultural heritage / Margath A. Walker, David Walker, Yanga Villagómez Velázquez -- Global production and distribution : Wal-Mart's global logistics empire (with special reference to the China/southern California connection) / Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson -- ASDA : Wal-Mart in the United Kingdom / Steve Burt and Leigh Sparks -- Challenges facing Wal-Mart in the German market / Susan Christopherson -- Myth of Wal-Martization : retail globalization and local competition in Japan and Germany / Yuko Aoyama and Guido Schwarz -- Penetrating the Great Wall, conquering the Middle Kingdom : Wal-Mart in China / Shuguang Wang and Yongchang Zhang -- Consuming Wal-Mart : a case study in Shenzhen / Lucia Lo and Lu Wang, with Wei Lu -- Supermarkets and the (M)art of Ling Shou / Chris Webster -- Globalization of food retailing and the consequences of Wal-Martization in Mexico / James J. Biles -- Wal-Mart goes south : sizing up the chain's Mexican success story / Chris Tilly. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wal-Mart (Firm) -- Management.
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Wal-Mart (Firm) |
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Management. |
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Wal-Mart (Firme) -- Gestion. |
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International business enterprises -- Management.
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International business enterprises -- Management. |
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International economic relations.
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International economic relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brunn, Stanley D.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wal-Mart world. New York : Routledge, ©2006 0415951364 9780415951364 (DLC) 2006001774 (OCoLC)63122839 |
| ISBN |
9780203943199 (electronic book) |
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0203943198 (electronic book) |
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9781135929084 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1135929084 |
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9781135929121 (e-book ; ePub) |
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1135929122 |
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9781135929138 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1135929130 |
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9786611081911 |
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6611081917 |
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0415951364 (hardback) |
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9780415951364 (hardback) |
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0415951372 (pb) |
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9780415951371 (pb) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9780203943199 |
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