Commerce - Organization & administration
Research News and Information

Sunday, November 22, 2009

'We, the Congolese, we cannot trust each other'. Trust, norms and relations among traders in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo.

30 Aug 2009 Congolese traders in Katanga claim that they cannot trust their peers, customers, and employees. Existing literature about social capital in Africa does not enhance our understanding, as it tends to consider trust as depending on the degree of ... Read more...

Brazil: An emerging partner in drug R&D.

30 Jul 2009 With the need for innovation in drug discovery and development and changes to patent laws that are enabling greater IP protection, many pharmaceutical companies are pursuing international cooperation agreements with foreign companies as part of a ... Read more...

The big shift: measuring the forces of change.

29 Jun 2009 Traditional metrics don't capture many of the challenges and opportunities in store for U.S. companies and the national economy. The authors, from Deloitte, present a framework for understanding the forces that have transformed business over the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Commerce - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Trustees view TCAB from a business perspective. Interview by Laurie Lewis. 30 Oct 2009
• The twain shall meet. 29 Sep 2009
• Suppliers shuffle, deal. Spate of restructuring, exec changes, acquisitions. 5 Sep 2009
• 'We, the Congolese, we cannot trust each other'. Trust, norms and relations among traders in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. 30 Aug 2009
• Strategic healthcare retail. 30 Aug 2009
• Brazil: An emerging partner in drug R&D. 30 Jul 2009
• SBIR program. Researchers fight against bigger slice to small business. Jul 2009
• Free trade agreements and health services. 29 Jun 2009
• The big shift: measuring the forces of change. 29 Jun 2009
• How Gen Y and Boomers will reshape your agenda. 29 Jun 2009
• Rules of engagement: reaching out to communities. 30 May 2009
• Getting to yes: corporate power and the creation of a psychopharmaceutical blockbuster. 30 May 2009
• Shop talk. Three compete to be medical products destination. 30 May 2009
• The whole relationship between environmental variables and firm performance: competitive advantage and firm resources as mediator variables. 28 May 2009
• Business impact of nurse-designed training for claims case managers. 29 Apr 2009
• A patient-focused business model: contradiction in terms? 29 Apr 2009
• Health and productivity as a business strategy: a multiemployer study. 30 Mar 2009
• Customers' expectations of complaint handling by airline service: privilege status and reasonability of demands from a social learning perspective. 30 Mar 2009
• Lessons in customer service. Interview by Lynne Wallis. 30 Mar 2009
• Infusion centers: opportunities for financial and personal success. 30 Mar 2009

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Commerce'

Definition: The interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale, between different countries or between populations within the same country. It includes trade (the buying, selling, or exchanging of commodities, whether wholesale or retail) and business (the purchase and sale of goods to make a profit). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p411, p2005 & p283)

Descriptor UI: D003132

Alternative terms: Commerce; Commerces; Commercial Sector; Commercial Sectors; Sector, Commercial; Sectors, Commercial; Sales; Prices; Price; Vendors; Vendor; Business; Businesses; Contraceptive Importation; Contraceptive Importations; Importation, Contraceptive; Importations, Contraceptive;

Related Mesh Headings: Economic Competition; Industry; Antitrust Laws; Ethics, Business;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: J01.219;

Technical Notes: includes business & trade; SPEC: SPEC qualif