The retail revolution : how Wal-Mart created a brave new world of business / Nelson Lichtenstein.

Author
Lichtenstein, Nelson [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st Picador ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Picador, 2010.
Description
424 pages ; 21 cm

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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPIA) HF5429.215.U6 L53 2010 Browse related items Request

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    Summary note
    Insightful, original, and steeped in the culture of retail life, "The Retail Revolution" draws on first-hand reporting from coastal China to rural Arkansas to give a fresh and necessary understanding of how Wal-Mart has transformed international commerce.
    Notes
    • "With a new afterword"--Cover.
    • "A Metropolitan book."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-404) and index.
    Contents
    • Sam Walton's world
    • Supply and command
    • The corporate culture
    • Beat yesterday
    • Unions : keep out!
    • Wal-Mart's long march to China
    • Discount stores in every clime?
    • How Wal-Mart makes the rules
    • Wal-Mart versus the world it has created.
    ISBN
    • 9780312429683 ((pbk.))
    • 0312429681 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    619573171
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