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How can trading standards make sense of disruptive new business models?
Posted 04 August 2020 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Business|National
ANALYSIS: Online marketplaces, the sharing economy and rapidly changing digital business models are transforming consumer markets faster than regulation can keep pace. Examines the enforcement, legal and policy challenges posed by increasingly disruptive technologies and platforms.
The internet has revolutionised consumerism, bringing goods and services from all over the globe to our fingertips and our doorsteps. While markets have been overhauled by the global pandemic over the past few months, the past two decades have seen immeasurable expansion in choice and – in many cases almost complete – elimination of geographical monopolies.
The pace of disruption has acce...
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