Business & economics / Industries

Lessons for Competing in the Tough World of Retail

by Barry Berman

This Element is an excerpt from Competing in Tough Times: Business Lessons from L.L. Bean, Trader Joe's, Costco, and Other World-Class Retailers (9780132459198) by Barry Berman. Available in print and digital...

Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing: "Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders"

by Jeremy Greenfield & James L. McQuivey

Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing - Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders is Digital Book World's first ebook. In interviews with 19 innovative ebook business leaders, Digital Book...

Pioneers of Digital: Success Stories from Leaders in Advertising, Marketing, Search and Social Media

by Mel Carson & Paul Springer

Pioneers of Digital is about those individuals who have truly altered the way advertising, marketing and other communications industries operate. It features twenty inspirational interviews with those who have...

The Retailer's Guide to Carbon Tax

by Hymie Zawatzky

Retail businesses, already feeling the pinch, are facing further pressure with the Government's introduction of the Carbon Tax, that is due to come into effect on July 1, 2012. This tax may be the last straw...

Layered Retail Merchandizing: Strategies to Capture All Customer Behaviors

by Herb Sorensen Ph.D.

This Element is an excerpt from Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing (9780137126859) by Herb Sorensen, Ph.D. Available in print and digital formats.

Rethinking the way you merchandise, to...

Understanding the Role of Deterrence in Counterterrorism Security

by Andrew R. Morral & Brian A. Jackson

Deterrence--a central feature of counterterrorism security systems and a major factor in the cost-effectiveness of many security programs--is not well understood or measured. This paper offers a framework for...