E-commerce has been developing rapidly in rural areas, and has a big influence on people’s life especially in villages and towns in recent years. The popularization of Taobao Villages is the best example.In this paper, we conduct a literature review on rural e-commerce (REC) in China from three aspects: the research status, research contents, and research tendency firstly. We then taking farmer...

"Cabusnama" is an important book in the Persian literature. It was written by Prince AlZiari Onsur AlMaali Kikaoos Bin Iskander Bin Kaboos Bin Washmiger Bin Ziar in the fifth Hugri Century. The book contains a number of important pieces of economic, military, intellectual, ect. All these were written in forty four chapters. The book was presented to his son and successor Gilanshah to teach him ...

This paper details and justifies Grounded Theory as a methodology for researching into significant and emerging macromarketing phenomena, through an exploration of its use to investigate the marketing dynamics of the Fairtrade Towns Movement. The paper describes the research ‘journey’ undertaken from the initial consideration of Fairtrade Towns as an underresearched and challenging topic, throu...

Index The IWHA project The partners CHAPTER I Italy The context Immigration and access to the social-health services Policies for immigration in the Emilia Romagna Region and in the towns and cities involved in the study: a closer look at the overall picture Field research Good practices and social-health services for immigrant women in the areas of the study Services and immigrant women: analy...

Fair trade is a means of governing South-North supply chains to increase the benefits of international trade integration for poor southern producers of agricultural and handicraft goods. Although the approach itself is arguably innovative in comparison with commercially orientated supply chains, many consider that its formalisation within third-party, Fairtrade International certification, has ...

Dial-a-ride systems are focused as a style of new transportation systems for urban area. While it is reported that such systems improve usability of bus systems when it is applied in a small town/area, it is not obvious how and when the system are reasonable compared with traditional fixed-route bus systems. We conducted a couple of computer simulations of dial-a-ride and fixed-route systems to...