Modern Approaches of the Management of Alternative Trade Systems
Modern Approaches of the Management of Alternative Trade Systems

Summary/Abstract: The management of the modern trade systems has some particularities which could not be covered by the classic approaches and models of distribution channels or exchange systems occurred in the second half of the 20th century. The new challenges which determined both practitioners and theoreticians to look from a different angle at the way the goods and services are exchanged between entities or individuals were of both technical nature (as, for example, the new opportunities provided of IT systems and especially Internet based techniques) and of the nature of socio/economic environment evolution, as, for example, the need for security and lack of coherent solutions for avoiding the effects of the World economic crisis. Methods used for trade in the old times, as reciprocity, natural economy or barter can become strong alternative trade methods if supported by the power of the IT and managed by modern techniques.

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