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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Department Stores"”.
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Job content analysis of apparel buyer positions in Department stores
… the job content of apparel buyer positions in department stores and make comparisons of job elements according to store size as determined by annual sales volume. A modified Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) was used to determine job content in six major categories. Questionnaires were …
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Development of structured employment systems in Japanese department stores in Hong Kong
The study is undertaken with an intent to understand the development of structured employment systems within Japanese retail companies overseas. A majority of existing studies on Japanese international management focus on national origins as a major source of the core-periphery distinction within …
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Some economic aspects of educational work in department stores: With special reference to the sales force
U of I Only Restriction set for Item 111781 on 2019-08-06T22:07:45Z with date 2045-01-01 by astein@illinois.edu.
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Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring of executive trainees by apparel specialty chain, conventional department, and discount department stores
… for 51 apparel specialty chain, 38 conventional department, and 35 discount department stores. Questionnaires were returned by 71 retailers, yielding a response rate of 57.3%. The sample consisted of vice presidents, managers, directors, and other retail executives responsible for the recruiting, …
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Shopping Orientations, Retail Attributes and Retail Format Choice Among Generation Y Apparel Shoppers
… within eleven distinct retail formats (upscale department stores, traditional department stores, value department stores, specialty stores, specialty fast fashion stores, discounters, off-price stores, factory outlets, Internet only retailers, mail order catalogs, and television shopping). The …
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A Presentation of the Material Gathered in a Study of a Small Business
Olson and Sons is a small department store in Des Moines, Iowa. The store is operated by Harvey Olson and his three sons. | Background | Mr. Harvey Olson started the store in its present location in 1961. Since its conception, the store has increased its shopping area by fifty percent and doubled …
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The development and evaluation of a discrepancy needs assessment model with implications for planning supplementary adult marketing education programs
… full-time sales associates employed by Leggett department stores in the state of Virginia; and (2) the 30 supervisors of the 260 sales associates. A 17-item needs assessment instrument was developed, validated and reliability tested by the researcher. Statistical analysis included Spearman and …
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A kind of superior hobby : women managers in the John Lewis Partnership 1918-1950
… traditional management practices in British department stores can be identified. Increasing trade, combined with the introduction of new systems and stock, required a dramatic increase in the number and calibre of managers employed to run the shops. Using a case study approach, this thesis …
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The Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago
… street, State Street. As one of a number of department stores built. along this commercial street in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Carson-Pirie-Scott was at the center of a transformation of urban life. Rapid change in the scale and character of commercial architecture on State …
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Clothing availability from department and speciality stores: implications for self-esteem, body satisfaction, and design line preference of large-size women
… to determine if large-size women who shopped in department stores differed in self-esteem, body satisfaction, and design line preference from large-size women who shopped in specialty stores and to determine if relationships existed among these variables. Data were collected using a modified …
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Relationship Between Age, Store Attributes, Shopping Orientations, and Approach-Avoidance Behavior of Elderly Apparel Consumers
… consumers in this study preferred to shop department stores and mass merchandisers for clothing. These consumers reported that they would spend more time and money in retail stores that offered credit, discounts for those 65 and over, and liberal return policies. Further, the consumers …
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Merchandise control in departmentized Texas stores
… procedures which may be used in the types of stores concerned and their value to management as compared with the effort involved. Consideration also is given to the organizations found in the stores using these procedures, as without this the study would have little meaning. This study …
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Embroidery, business enterprise and philanthropic ventures in Nineteenth Century Britain
… commercial activity through numerous agencies, department stores, depots and charitable institutions. Embroidery took on the form of a major commercial enterprise, and in examining these important developments, the thesis will evaluate the organisational structure of these enterprises, their …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta de producción de calzado deportivo hecho a base de plástico reciclado y látex de shiringa (Hevea brasiliensis)
… project, which will be distributed in boxes to department stores (Saga Falabella and Ripley) with a sales value of S/ 177 per pair of shoes. The location of the plant will be in the department of Lima, province of Lima, district of Lurín. This plant will have 2221 m2, will have an installed …
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Modernity in Miniature: Maoism and the Beijing Department Store
<p>This thesis examines the Beijing Department Store as a contradictory structure embedded in the world’s largest Communist revolution. By looking at the urban planning decisions behind constructing a colonial form in the center of the socialist capital, I attempt to unravel the complex …
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An Opposition in Search of Itself: Modern French Cinema and the Algerian War
… of the modern world – its museums, its department stores, its cultures of objects – in a dialectical tension with images of policing, torture, and concentration camps, the Left Bank Group demonstrate how the horrors of the counter-insurgency in Algeria permeated everyday life in the …
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Supply chain network considerations for e-retail of luxury goods in Canada
… in addition to countless company owned stores, 9 flagship stores, department stores and boutiques distributed around the world. To continue growth, RL wants to launch an e-retail website for Canada. This thesis aims to provide supply chain network considerations for the successful …
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Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
… H Majesty's Theater, the neighboring West End Department Stores, and the enveloping Edwardian metropolis of London. Chapters 1 and 2 examine the 1906 historical melodrama Nero by Stephen Phillips to reveal the commodity-based mechanisms of Tree's production style, to describe the subject of its …
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Women, tactility and consumption : middle-class female sensory participation in Victorian shopping environments
… in which women related to the new spaces of the department stores through their bodies. In addition to showing the importance of touch for shopping, focusing on tactility brings other issues to light. Understanding tactile habits allows for a reevaluation of the public-private division. Rather …
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