Wal-Mart world the world's biggest corporation in the global economy
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New York
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Routledge
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c2006
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xiv, 410 p. , ill., maps , 26 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 369-397( and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 ... ]et al.[ -- 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 Teotihuac?n : issues of resistance and cultural heritage / Margath A. Walker, David Walker, Yanga Villag?mez Vel?zquez -- 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.