The Internet has provided traditional retailers a new mean with which to serve customers and today there are two main trends of organizations which flow concurrently. On one hand there is the Traditional Organization, established in between 20th century and on the other is Modern Organization emerged in this ongoing century. Many traditional organizations "bricks-andmortar" have transformed to modern organizations "clicks-and-mortar" by incorporating Internet sales. There are huge differences between these two types. On the other hand the appearance of virtual firms raises the question of what kind of changes they have brought to the analysis of a particular industry and in the choice of a strategy for those particular firms and other firms that have to compete with them. The aim of this paper is to explain shortly through a literature review what the brickand-mortar, click-and-mortar and virtual organizations mean and analyzing with three specific examples how does it changesbetween them the organization structure, the definition of core functions and the degree of outsourcing, use of power and types of bargaining in dealing with suppliers and customers, and key management functions. In the future we believe that this paper will serve as a base for future research in the area.
In recent years has been a dramatic growth in the size of the gray market, otherwise referred to as the parallel-import market. Gray market shifts among markets & countries because of its characteristics, its performance quality and the potential of gray market goods. A firm in an authorized marketing channel sells an authorized good to an unauthorized reseller making the good a gray market good. The firm violates in such a way the traditional business assumptions that firms and business people will behave ethically, will honor contracts and deal fairly. On the other hand the free riding of the unauthorized seller is not illegal but is unethical since the gray marketers use authorized goods and the strategy and firm's identity to achieve their objectives. Gray market goods usually have: high resale potential, trade-marketed brand names, good market recognition, established price and performance, are easily stored and inventoried, are easily transferred and have multilingual packaging. Gray market creates a potential consumer risk and reduces the performance and benefit to society. Moreover gray market can be costly and lessen control in the channel over marketing strategy. The aim of this paper is to explain first of all the meaning of the gray market, the gray market goods involved in the process, and the process itself. In the Albanian reality there is a lack of studies in this aspect therefore this paper will serve as a contribution in better understanding the topic. In the future we believe that it will serve as a base for future research in the area.
Demographic change is a complex phenomenon, but it has generally been accepted that having better employment opportunities and quality of jobs are among important factors that determine people’s mobility. The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between the increase in the number of people living in urban areas and the job opportunities in these areas in Albania. In order to do so, we performed a statistical analysis of a dataset on labor force surveys for the time period of 2007-2013. Our findings confirmed a positive correlation between the increase of individuals living in a certain area and job opportunities for specialized occupations in that area; however, a significant relationship was not found when job opportunities in general, in general, were considered.
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