...Ashis Mishra; Javeed Ansari Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for measuring retail productivity. It intends to identify all the constituents of retail productivity exhaustively, along with their measures and integrate them with a comprehensive model. Design/methodology...

... technical evaluation techniques, the site visit is widely recognised as informing modelling and subsequent decision making. Research limitations/implications The survey sample is smaller and contains a greater proportion of larger businesses than that undertaken by Hernández and Bennison. Originality...

... for an eight‐year period (from 1995 to 2003), operating in restoration and fashion retailing sector are used. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to examine survival. The existence of pioneering advantage is tested in the Spanish context because its franchising sector is one of the most developed...

...Bruce Curry; Luiz Moutinho Considers alternative types of computer models designed to assist decision makers on questions of site location. Relates to a larger scale research project which aims to examine the necessary requirements for computers to provide practical decision support. It involves...