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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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The Methodological Support for the Transformation of Enterprise Business Processes Based on Franchising [PDF]
Problemi EkonomikiThe aim of the article is to substantiate and systematize the methodological aspects of transforming enterprise business processes based on franchising.
Zolochevskyi Oleksandr V.
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Sale the seven Cs: Teaching/training aid for the (e-)retail mix [PDF]
, 2005 The ‘4Ps’ of the marketing mix have long been popular with students, tutors, trainers and practitioners as a learning and teaching aid. The purpose of this paper is to present an equivalent tool for retail and e-retail: ‘Sale the 7Cs’.
Dennis, C, Fenech, T, Merrilees, B
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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The “Wal-Martization” of Dental Practice
Dental Hypotheses, 2011 The economic environment of dental practices is undergoing rapid change. Franchise and network practices are increasing in number because of many underlying economic factors, including supply and demand for services, banking requirements, student debt ...
David O. Willis
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, 2007 This article aims to enrich the explanatory framework of franchise networks through integration of resource-based view and incomplete contracts theory.
Cliquet, Gérard +2 more
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Competition in Rail Transport: A New Opportunity for Railways? [PDF]
, 1993 Throughout Europe, and in many other parts of the world, railways are suffering from declining market share and deteriorating financial performance; consequently there is renewed interest in deregulation and the introduction of competition into rail ...
Nash, C.A., Preston, J.M.
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Complementarities In Organizational Design Of Franchising Networks
Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR), 2016 This study investigates complementarities between components of the organizational design of franchising networks. We examine three components of governance, rarely distinguished as such in previous studies involving franchising: allocation of decision rights, performance measurement and incentives.
Hela Chakroun +2 more
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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