The spatial economy of North American trade fairs

The North American Free Trade Agreement.

Has NAFTA Changed North American Trade?

Typi cally, the debate over NAFTA has focused on jobs. However, to really understand NAFTA's effects on employment or living standards, it is important to first answer the more fundamental question of what effect it has had on trade. The North American Free Trade Agreement has been one of the most hotly debated trade accords in recent history. NAFTA's critics regard the expansion of free trade ...

Using trade fairs in key account management

Trade fairs play an important role in marketing. In many cases, exhibitors view trade fairs as an opportunity for transactional selling, and thus may overlook opportunities that exist for initiating and building relationships with key accounts. This paper maps exhibitors’ and visitors’ exhibition objectives against key account management (KAM) activities, and in particular examines the role tra...

Requirement Analysis for On-line Trade Fairs

This paper describes the activities performed to define the user requirements of a system named FAIRWIS (Trade Fairs Web-based Information Services), project which is being promoted by the European Commission under the IST program. Detailed analysis of users involved in the business of trade fairs, the environment in which they operate and the tasks they perform have been carried out. The study...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Mexican nursing.

In the context of nurse migration, experts view trade agreements as either vehicles for facilitating migration or as contributing to brain-drain phenomena. Using a case study design, this study explored the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the development of Mexican nursing. Drawing results from a general thematic analysis of 48 interviews with Mexican nurses and 41...