The market tradition is perhaps as old as communication itself, the process of sharing and exchanging information. The thesis follows the development of the marketplace, the market space in the city of Nitra with the aim of finding its potential for space and space, which it understands as a permanent space of communication with an unstable character. The work uses this property and turns it to flourish to revitalize the marketplace, place, city outside its walls.

Market Place is a home furnishings trade magazine circulated free to approximately 35,000 employees in the home furnishings industry. The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining whether three demographic characteristics, including type of business, position, and experience, affect frequency of readership or influence of the magazine. Questionnaires were mailed in the spring of 1975 to a random sample of 1,000 recipients of Market Place. Analysis of the data showed that, although most of the recipients have a high frequency of readership of Market Place, the groups hypothesized to read most frequently and to be most influenced by the magazine did not read and were not influenced most frequently.

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Autor no autoriza el acceso a texto completo de su documento hasta el 2/4/2020. / Magíster en Gestión para la Globalización / El presente estudio tiene como objetivo establecer un plan de negocios que incentive la competitividad en el ejercicio de la exploración minera en Chile y Latinoamérica, mediante la creación de un mercado organizado online que ponga en contacto oferentes y demandantes de títulos mineros. Se pretende así dar solución al acceso de propiedad minera que existe en Chile y a la vez fomentar la rotación e incrementar la liquidez de este tipo de activos desde una perspectiva de mercado. De manera anexa se generará un mercado de información geocientífica y se establecerá un portal para ofrecer servicios enfocados en el negocio de la exploración. Actualmente no existe en Chile un mercado organizado enfocado en facilitar transacciones de propiedades mineras online. El mercado potencial calculado para Chile varía entre US$ 86.000 y 45.000 millones. Para empresas semejantes que operan en Australia se estiman ingresos anuales entre US$ 1.3 y 1.8 millones. La empresa está enfocada en ofrecer un portafolio de proyectos mineros en etapa de exploración a empresas Juniors y Majors, y a la vez facilitar el acceso a información geocientífica y contratación se servicios asociados a la exploración. Se cuenta con un equipo profesional de alto nivel compuesto de un abogado con experiencia en comercio internacional, un ingeniero comercial con experiencia en estrategia y finanzas, un ingeniero industrial con experiencia en marketing y un geólogo con experiencia en exploración minera. Todos ellos presentan formación de MBA en Australia y tres de ellos doble título en Chile. El modelo de negocio se basa en el pago de una subscripción para tener acceso a la información completa del portafolio de proyectos y al pago de una comisión por negocio realizado, al igual que las transacciones de información geocientífica y contratación de servicios anexos. Las ventajas competitivas que tiene la empresa son el equipo profesional de alto nivel y el sólido y fuerte network en la industria del cobre, exploración minera y mundo financiero. Se cuenta con un Advisory Board con altos ejecutivos de empresas Majors. El valor de la empresa, estimado mediante el VAN a una tasa de descuento de 13,5%, es de US$ 11,9 millones para un periodo de evaluación de 10 años, con una TIR de 64%. Se espera alcanzar el break even point a partir del año tres. La inversión inicial se estima en US$ 200.000 incluyendo el desarrollo del sitio web y la operación y kick off de los primeros ocho meses.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:44:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARCO ANTONIO DE CARVALHO.pdf: 6610238 bytes, checksum: f081d09903cec26e9d863ef0d0eb0de5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-20 / Aiming to know the profiles of agricultural technicians egressed from the Instituto Federal Goiano campus Ceres in three distinct phases and their insertion in the market place, school-farm period, the 2.208/97 and 5.154/04 edicts, the central research question which guided the present thesis was to understand to whom this professional education has served. In terms of theoretical-methodological tools, I recurred to the historical-dialectical materialism, which demands a range of approaching strategies related to the study object by means of a preliminary exploratory research, as well as an empirical investigation of the school teachers, egressed students and school managers. Considering the qualitative and quantitative analysis, we adopted a content analysis. After data tabulation, the use of this technique allowed to deepen the level of perception regarding the research purposes throw the interpretation and analysis of education as a State policy making tool in the school s geographical region, where a historical professional educational process and an incorporation and expulsion movements of the agricultural worker in the areas of arable lands always were present. As a consequence of this thesis theoreticalmethodological characteristics the historical-dialectical materialism - a dialogue with the academic-scientific literature on the theme was established in which it was possible to evidence the paths and non-paths of this mode of professional education in Brazil and the impacts of its discontinuity. Despite of the analyzed technician educational process has been historically faced malfunctions as a result of diverse moments in which its general guidelines were altered, what can be observed is that along such transformation the educational institution, that is the research locus, offered a qualitative professional formation to those students, an outcome of a conscious intervention by which the teacher role may change the traditional dichotomy and neutralize the discriminating power of the minority elite. Such conclusion was countersigned by annotation analysis about the egressed students, which indicated that regardless the phase the levels of influence of the educational background received and the market place demands are compatible and, emphatically, they attributed to a comprehensive education the responsibility by their maturation, as well as personal and professional growth, that enable them to make technical adequate decisions in every field situation whether it is in the agribusiness, familiar agriculture or in any other areas of professional activity. Particularizing here the campus Ceres trajectory and its strategies, conscious or not, the institutional culture spoke louder and resisted to immediate vulgates, saved the professional profiles graduated by it, and provided the institution own survival, educating a world citizen who goes beyond the intended enhanced farm-hand but even the professional profile of this agriculture technician fits as much to the Brazilian agro exporter capital interests, the familiar agricultural ends, as many other professional fields where such egressed students are inserted. Under a perspective of the rescue of the professional education, the conscious intervention of each institution in this education modality, considering the current legislation that commend an omnilateral formation, in my view, are relevant and inclusive as political practice aimed to the interest of most of the Brazilians, the class of those who live from the work. / Com o propósito de conhecer os perfis dos técnicos agrícolas egressos do Instituto Federal Goiano campus Ceres em três fases distintas e sua inserção no mundo do trabalho, período Escola-Fazenda, Decreto 2.208/97 e Decreto 5.154/04, a questão central que norteia o presente trabalho foi saber a quem essa formação tem atendido. Como instrumental teórico-metodológico, recorri ao materialismo históricodialético, o que demanda uma gama de estratégias de aproximação em relação ao referido objeto, a partir de pesquisa exploratória preliminar, além de investigação empírica junto aos docentes, egressos e gestores do instituto. Considerando a análise quali-quantitativa, trabalhamos com análise de conteúdo. Após tabulação das informações, o uso da técnica mencionada permitiu aprofundar o nível de percepção em relação aos propósitos da pesquisa, buscando interpretar e analisar a educação enquanto instrumento de política pública de Estado na região, onde o processo histórico de educação profissional e o movimento de incorporação e expulsão do trabalhador rural das áreas de terra agricultáveis sempre estiveram presentes. Em decorrência das características teórico-metodológicas da opção do presente trabalho o materialismo histórico-dialético ,foi estabelecido diálogo com a produção acadêmico-científica sobre o tema, na qual foi possível evidenciar os caminhos e descaminhos dessa modalidade de ensino profissional no Brasil e os impactos dessa descontinuidade. Apesar de, historicamente, o processo de formação do técnico analisado ter enfrentado disfunções em decorrência dos diversos momentos em que suas diretrizes gerais foram alteradas, o que se tem observado é que, ao longo de tais transformações, a instituição, locus da pesquisa, foi oferecendo uma formação qualitativa àqueles profissionais, fruto de uma intervenção consciente , na qual o papel do professor pode alterar a tradicional dicotomia e neutralizar o poder discriminador dos interesses da elite minoritária. Tal conclusão foi referendada a partir da análise dos apontamentos sobre os egressos, que indicam que, independente da fase, o grau de influência da formação recebida e as exigências do mundo do trabalho são compatíveis e, de forma enfática, atribuíram à formação integral a responsabilidade pelo seu amadurecimento e crescimento pessoal e profissional, o que lhes permite tomar a decisão técnica adequada a cada situação de campo, seja ela no agronegócio, seja na agricultura familiar, seja em quaisquer outros ramos de atividade profissional. Particularizando aqui a trajetória percorrida pelo Campus Ceres e suas estratégias, conscientes ou não, a cultura institucional falou mais forte e resistiu às vulgatas imediatistas, salvou o perfil dos profissionais por ele formados, assim como facultou com que a própria Instituição sobrevivesse, formando um cidadão do mundo, que vai muito além do pretendido peão melhorado , mas inclusive, o perfil desse técnico agrícola, atende aos interesses do capital agroexportador brasileiro, mas também da agricultura familiar, dentre outros ramos do campo profissional em que tais egressos estão inseridos. Em uma perspectiva de resgate da educação profissional, a intervenção consciente de cada instituição dessa modalidade de ensino, considerando a legislação atual, que preconiza da formação omnilateral, a meu ver, são pertinentes e inclusivas como uma prática política voltada aos interesses da maioria dos brasileiros, a classe dos que vivem do trabalho.

Buying and selling of used goods is something that has been done for centuries. Throughout the last 20 years, rapid growth of second-hand products consumption has got the attention of researchers and raised the question why customers buy second-hand products. The growth of the Internet has developed different applications, and this combined with the introduction of new electronic devices, provides users with buying and selling facilities of goods over the Internet and mobile devices. The uses of social networks and smart-phones have also revolutionized the second-hand product market among all economic classes. The consumption of second-hand products is increasing daily. Therefore it is important to pay attention to the factors that affect the purchase of second-hand products since it is not a simple form of mercantilism. It's a lifestyle, a way to acquire goods that we need and get rid of those that we do not see as useful anymore. The purpose of this study is to create new knowledge in the area of second-hand products consumption and customer buying behavior by identifying factors that influence the customer in buying second-hand products. In order to fulfill the research purpose, a quantitative research approach and cross sectional research design were adopted. Questionnaires were designed using Google survey tool and through this method 169 questionnaires were collected from respondents. After which, SPSS was used to perform the required tests of descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, bivariate correlation, single item measurement and multiple regression analysis. It was observed that price was the most important factor influencing customers when purchasing second-hand products; risk is the second most influencing factor and brand is the third and location come last as most influencing factor.  The results show that the factors such as brand, price and purchase intention of second-hand products have no association and influence on each other during the purchase decision. In contrast, risk and location factors have a weak association with each other but both factors lack association with brand, price and intention. This study contributes to the existing literature on second-hand products consumption and customer buying behavior as well as touching upon theories of brand, price, risk, and seller location.

Thesis (M.Arch. (Prof.))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning, 2012. / Society is moving through the Information Age1, a period summarised by advancing information technologies, a world economy, and a global culture, where an ephemeral network has expanded to stir and captivate our everyday lives. While the seemingly unimaginable nature and spatial qualities associated with this digital age continue to captivate our imaginations, one cannot ignore that electronic space has grounding in physical place; a consequence that sees minerals, energy, technology, and people coming together in real spaces to construct the backbone upon which today’s global information networks are built. In this instantaneous era, where spatial tensions are characteristic of widespread change, one need not stretch one’s imagination to see that people and cities are increasingly pushed to find new ways to retain their grasp on and compete within the circuits of globalising space. The shifting nature of urban geographies everywhere materialise not only from the capacity of networks to disperse but also integrate increasingly complex components of productivity throughout specific regions of the world, while hollowing out spaces of marginality in others. Those cities located within developing contexts, which live so precariously along a cusp, become frontiers for unimagined resourcefulness and experimentation, where people as infrastructure assemble with remarkable reach and efficiency to oscillate between the universal and particular (Simone, 1998:173-187). These trajectories shift our perception from city to borderland, where the urban imaginary converges on themes of exclusion and incorporation, marginality and experimentation. Our incessant lifestyles and fixations with technology, consumption, and obsolesce have reproduced volatile circumstances, where mountains of discarded electronic waste are dumped near marginal communities. These wastelands are far removed from the promises once held by this machinery – instead offering opportunities only to those willing to salvage precious metals in smouldering pits. By providing an interface that operates to alleviate the collision between these phenomena; the Open Public Trade Forum, a hybrid market place where a liberalised trade in metal weaves in and out between actual and virtual space, informal and formal activities, local and global networks, could be the first to explore the intersection between these traditionally exclusive sectors. Through rethinking existing economic activities and socio-spatial environments the market is to become a lithe public realm – an arena for altering perceptions – where established notions of trade fuse with progressive concepts of exchange and production in an exploration of 1 Information Age: is a period characterised by widespread electronic access to information through the use of computer technology (Encarta English Dictionary). 3 | P a g e programmatic relations and typological inventions. This is a dynamic space to be used as much for commerce and industry as social collectives, where a myriad of citizens are brought together under the auspices of exchange: to trade in mixed metals, to visualise, debate, and shift their dreams of urban futures, to experience chance encounters and excite unique social interactions. And in so doing distinguish a new public architecture – a pioneering metal market embedded between Johannesburg’s informal, informational and industrial landscapes.

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This diploma theses is focused on marketing mix of a selected company which operates in an international environment. .The diploma thesis consists of three parts. The theoretical part focuses on the description of basic characteristics and concepts which are related to given issue. The analytical part consists of analyses performed in both internal and external environment of the company WoodBag s. r. o. on the assumption of its future expansion to the Swedish market. Results that we achieved are stated in SWOT analysis. The final part is the draft part, in which recommendations and potential suggestions from perspective of marketing mix towards successful expansion of the company to the Swedish market with results from particular analyses and theoretical background are presented.

This paper examines the effects of Ikea store establishment in Kalmar and Karlstad on the trade and retail inside the two cities, and as well on the trade and retail in the close neighboring municipalities and in further peripheral municipalities in both regions. After the establishment of Ikea store, Kalmar and Karlstad have experienced significant growth in trade and retail. The question, however, is how big this growth is in both cities? And how different locations on different distances from Ikea have been affected? What impact there was on different segments of the retail? How different business branches have been affected? How large the catchment area for the emerging new large-scale retail locations is? These questions, in addition to few others, are investigated in this paper. The thesis starts with an introduction chapter containing a background of the topic, problem description, the investigated questions, the purpose, and the outline of the paper. The next chapter includes the frame of reference which consists of literature review and theoretical framework about the external shopping centers and their impact on retail and regional trade development. It includes also information gathered from previous studies technical reports and other available sources about the subject. The third chapter includes description for the methods used to collect the primary and secondary data needed for the purpose of this study. Then the empirical framework which demonstrates the results of the conducted research followed by analysis and concluded in discussion and conclusion. Mixed methods are used as research strategy in this thesis, and the method to conduct the research is based on telephone interviews for the primary (qualitative) data, and documents and desk research for the secondary (quantitative) data. The gathered data is analyzed and designed in a way that allows the usage of comparative analysis technique to present the findings and draw conclusions. The results showed that new established Ikea retail store outside the city boundaries results with many effects on the city center and on the neighboring municipalities as well. The city center seems not to be affected negatively, but on the contrary positive effects were witnessed in both regions, these positive effects are linked to the increase inflow of customers from the external retail area which is known as spillover effect. III On the other hand, the neighboring towns and municipalities are more negatively affected especially with the trade of con-convenience goods as the consumers in these towns and municipalities start to go to the area of Ikea and the large external retail center to do their purchasing, the substitution effect is then said to be occurred. Moreover, the further far municipalities do not seem to be significantly affected by the establishment of Ikea. These effects whether positive or negative could be monitored by looking to few trade parameters such as the turnover, the sales index, and the consumers’ expenditure, these parameters can be very useful to measure the developments and changes in the trade and retail in a given place.