Introduction: The Retail Revolution,Gary G. Hamilton, Benjamin Senauer, and Misha Petrovic Part I. The Market Makers: A General Perspective 1. Retailers as Market Makers,Misha Petrovic and Gary G. Hamilton 2. Technology and Public Policy: The Preconditions for the Retail Revolution,Frederick H. Abernathy and Anthony P. Volpe Part II. Making Consumer Markets 3. U.S. Retailing and Its Global Diffusion,Misha Petrovic 4. Globalization of European Retailing,Michael Wortmann 5. Online Retailers as Market Makers,Suresh Kotha and Sandip Basu Part III. Making Supplier Markets 6. Supplier Markets and the Asian Miracle,Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu Kao 7. Global Logistics, Global Labor,Edna Bonacich and Gary G. Hamilton 8. Making the Global Supply-Base,Timothy Sturgeon, John Humphrey, and Gary Gereffi 9. Transnational Contractors in East Asia,Richard P. Appelbaum Part IV. Industries and Market Making 10. The Global Spread of Modern Food Retailing,Thomas Reardon and Benjamin Senauer 11. Market Making in the Personal Computer Industry,Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick