Recent evolution of the Central Business District in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture
Business district ; Japan ; Ryukyu ; Urban development ; Urban morphology
This paper aims to consider the relationship between recent changes in the central business district of Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and major socio-economic developments in Okinawa during the post war period. - (KA)
Business networks and transnational corporations: a study of Hong Kong firms in the ASEAN region
(extrafirm, interfirm and intrafirm) of transnational organizations must be addressed simultaneously. The A. argues that social and business natworks are necessary mechanisms of transnationalization.
Hong Kong's industrial structure and growth of advanced business services
Hong Kong has restructured its economic activity twice: first from an entrepot harbour to a full-flegded industrial economy, and from an industrial economy to a service economy. The emphasis is on the second change, notably on the advanced business
services and its developments. Its dual economy is based on its traditional harbour and emerging new services activities. At present, the services sector, and specifically the advanced business services has become the fastest growing industry.
Business associations and the politics of urban renewal : the case of the Lower Don Valley, Sheffield
The paper addresses the theme of small business associations and their scope for localised political influence on a government autonomous organization by using the example of the redevelopment of the Lower Don Valley. This was where a small business
Strategic behavior and development sequences in producer service businesses
addressed in the anbalysis are drawn from the industrial sociology and business strategy literature and include organizational structure, age, dynamic of client and geographic markets, and changes in services supplied.
Autoregressive process ; Business cycle ; Market ; Methodology ; Offices ; Real estate market ; Real estate property ; Statistics ; United Kingdom ; Urban construction
1997
[b1] Faculty of Business Finance, Southampton Institute, Southampton, Royaume-Uni
Place naming in early America was a form of vernacular expression. The Land of Lincoln, based on Lincoln place and business names is in central Illinois, and trends toward the southeast where the Lincoln family entered the state. While the Lincoln
Branch-plant industrialization depended upon a dense railroad infrastructure and a central location in the metropolitan network. It required the complex coordination of initiatives by national manufacturers, regional business elites, railroads
Paper focuses on the purification of Pralltown, a black shantytown initially on the outskirts of Lexington, Kentucky and later located near prime business property. After Civil War, former slaves were encouraged to relocate there for the separation
After a century of decline in the United States, microbreweries made a resurgence starting around 1980. A. discusses how a handful of Germanic giants after world War II drove hundreds of smaller breweries out of business. In the 1980s new American