Wal-Mart world: the world's biggest corporation in the global economy

1. geostrategy of global business : Wal-Mart and its historical forbears / Peter J. Hugill

2. Wal-Mart nation : mapping the reach of a retail colossus / Matthew A. Zook and Mark Graham

3. Wal-Mart' world / Steve Burt and Leigh Sparks

4. Discounting northern capital : financing the world's largest retailer from the periphery / William Graves

5. Wal-Mart supercenter market share of grocery retailing in U.S. metropolitan areas / J. Dennis Lord

6. Wal-Mart-scapes in rural and small-town America / Holly R. Barcus

7. Falling prices, happy faces : organizational culture at Wal-Mart / A. Jane Dunnett and Stephen J. Arnold

8. Wal-Mart : the new retail colossus / Ellen I. Rosen

9. Labor and the Wal-Mart effect / Jennifer Bair and Sam Bernstein

10. Wal-Mart as a phenomenon in the legal world : matters of scale, scale matters / Lea S. VanderVelde

11. institutional semiotics of Wal-Mart flyers and signage in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and China / Stephen J. Arnold, Nailin Bu, Ulrike Gerhard, Elke Pioch and Zhengxin Sun

12. Cathedrals of consumption : a political phenomenology of Wal-Mart / Barney Warf and Thomas Chapman

13. Visualizing Wal-Mart as home : where the heart is and king of the hill / Benjamin Smith

14. Examining Wal-Mart's relationships with local communities through investigation of advertising / Alecia M. Brettschneider and Fred M. Shelley

15. Wal-Mart and partisan politics : from agricultural volatility to red-state culture / Fred M. Shelley, Adrienne M. Proffer and Lisa DeChano

16. Wal-Martification of Teotihuacan : issues of resistance and cultural heritage / Margath A. Walker, David Walker and Yanga Villagomez Velazquez

17. Global production and distribution : Wal-Mart's global logistics empire (with special reference to the China/Southern California connection) / Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson

18. ASDA : Wal-Mart in the United Kingdom / Steve Burt and Leigh Sparks

19. Challenges facing Wal-Mart in the German market / Susan Christopherson

20. myth of Wal-Martization : retail globalization and local competition in Japan and Germany / Yuko Aoyama and Guido Schwarz

21. Penetrating the great wall, conquering the middle kingdom : Wal-Mart in China / Shuguang Wang and Yongchang Zhang

22. Consuming Wal-Mart : a case study in Shenzhen / Lucia Lo, Lu Wang and Wei Li

23. Supermarkets and the (M)art of Ling Shou / Chris Webster

24. Globalization of food retailing and the consequences of Wal-Martization in Mexico / James J. Biles

25. Wal-Mart goes south : sizing up the chain's Mexican success story / Chris Tilly.