Overview

Many forces threaten the viability of town centers. One of them is trade concentration in which family businesses are replaced by large, vertically integrated retail enterprises. Town centers, once locations of a rich variety of street stores in the hands of a local and independent merchant community, are being supplanted by monolithic and decentralized commercial zones. This process is documented in contemporary Germany for two towns, one grounded in a market economy and the other, until recently, socialistically based. In both cases, trade concentration is a prevailing force— a pattern that is not only found in post-industrialized nations, but also in developing countries in Latin America and Asia and is indicative of an emerging global culture.

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Author:   Norbert Dannhaeuser
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.652kg
ISBN:  

9780897894586

ISBN 10:   0897894588
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   16 February 1996
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations The Problem and Setting The Altstadt Trade Community (I) The Altstadt Trade Community (II) Hassfurt's Trade Community in the Periphery The Survival and Demise of Family-Operated Firms under Trade Concentration Hassfurt's Transformation: Two Merchant Firms Hassfurt's Transformation: The Mall The Socialistic Transformation of Hildburghausen The Post-Socialistic Transformation of Hildburghausen (I) The Post-Socialistic Transformation of Hildburghausen (II) Summary and Conclusion Notes Glossary Index of Case Histories References Index

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NORBERT DANNHAEUSER is Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Contemporary Trade Strategies in the Philippines: A Study in Marketing Anthropology (1983).

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