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Record W2747392833 · doi:10.4324/9781315882857-10

History of channels of distribution

2016· book-chapter· en· W2747392833 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEuropean Political History Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDistributive propertyDistribution (mathematics)GRASPPoliticsChannel (broadcasting)BusinessMarketing channelCommerceIndustrial organizationEconomic systemEconomicsMarketingPolitical scienceEngineeringLawTelecommunications

Abstract

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The economic development of countries, such as the USA or Canada, has been well documented by economic and business historians. The concept of ‘channels of distribution’ has been an elusive one to grasp because it is linked with what channel members do and what distributive functions they perform. All channels of distribution are both economic and political entities. They all have a historical origin which reflects the social and economic structure of a country, a region or a market. They have been structured, moulded and organized over time to reflect the legal, cultural and social values of the participants and their environment. The practice of marketing has been around since man recognized the benefits of exchange. That need to trade soon led to a need for traders, merchants or middlemen to facilitate business transactions, even when the producer assumed some, if not all, the distributive tasks of a middleman.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.897
Threshold uncertainty score0.951

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0500.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.150 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2016
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