... retailing Resource based view Product knowledge Competitive advantage Retailing Retailers Product information United Kingdom The first unit of analysis within this case study research was SIGR sector, and second the owner manager of each of the chosen SIGRs. An internet search of award...

... a detailed case study in a major tourist resort. Store location planning Loyalty card data Economic impact of tourism Seasonality Shops Customer loyalty Customers Demand forecasting United Kingdom Sales forecasting An important component of retail location planning involves...

... shopping Consumer behaviour Communication United Kingdom Customer loyalty H2. Positive evaluations of static product presentation variables will have a positive relationship with consumer trust. Clothing is an experience product, with features that can only be evaluated by trying...

... Communities Small enterprises Co‐operation United Kingdom If modern societies are to try to switch towards supporting more sustainable lifestyles, whether in terms of individual product choices or in terms of overall levels of consumption of the Earth's resources, then distribution systems...

... or environmental commitment, having achieved, or being on the way to achieving, a better level of environmental or social performance than non‐labelled products. Labelling Assortment Grocery retail Private brands Corporate social responsibility Social responsibility Spain United Kingdom...

... your progress and generally guide you through your career development” [3] . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Retail Organisational career management Buying Merchandising United Kingdom The bulk of careers research has moved away from organisations towards the individual...

..., the key findings from the interviews conducted are presented and then discussed in relation to the extant literature. In the closing section, the key conclusions and future research recommendations are outlined. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United Kingdom Small to medium...

... precisely the role it wishes U‐computing to occupy within the organisation (Yu and Tao, 2009). This suggests the following hypothesis: Retailing Technology led strategy Mobile technology Computing United Kingdom In many retailing companies the capacity to maintain a competitive advantage...

... with the rest of the team was a big issue. Commenting on the diversity management marketing scenario (Scenario 4) more generally, one respondent believed that selling products to meet the specific needs of different customers was important: United Kingdom Retailing Employee behaviour...

... Publishing Limited 2011 Business performance Supermarkets Competitive strategy Globalization United Kingdom One of the key issues for Asda was a lack of investment in new stores. With high debts in the early 1990s, store development finance was slashed and store development sites...

...‐to‐end supply chains. This outcome is normally referred to as SCM. United Kingdom Retailing Distribution management Research work Sustainability The roots of SCM are often attributed to Drucker and his seminal's 1962 article on “the economy's dark continent”. At this time, he was discussing...

... a number of factors to explain the challenges faced by independent retailers. These were summarised by Smith and Sparks (2000b) as relating to three broad areas: United Kingdom Shopping Retailers Convenience stores […] the best approaches are fashioned locally, to account for market...

... do you shop. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Competition United Kingdom Retailing Stores and supermarkets Consumer behaviour Shopping Morelli (1997) suggests that since the mid‐1980s the multiples have increasingly been part of an environment characterized...

... unique insights into the phenomenon which may add to the nascent literature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 United Kingdom Retailing Fashion industry Supply chain management Merchandising Demand Fast fashion has become a key feature of the UK fashion industry over...

... of the concept of localistation. Small to medium‐sized enterprises Retailing Globalization Localization Spain United Kingdom This paper presents the results of an exploratory study into the importance of the local, as represented by small retail outlets, to the economy in Seville (Spain...

... failure Retailing Curricula United Kingdom It is widely acknowledged in retailing theory that success courts failure and vice versa – as epitomized by the early work of Malcolm McNair and, specifically, the vulnerability phase in “The wheel of retailing” (Hollander, 1960 ; Brown, 1987, 2007...

... of town shopping Retail trade Rural areas Consumer behaviour United Kingdom All five towns are regarded as desirable places to live, with reasonably high rates of in‐migration and, in the case of Downham Market and Wymondham, significant population growth (Table I). Table I also illustrates how...

... at: delia.vazquez@manchester.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Electronic commerce Consumer behaviour Internet shopping United Kingdom Online consumer behaviour is currently an emerging theoretical body of research. The initial focus developed exploratory motivational...

... and Ahmed, 1995). Retailing International marketing Fashion industry United Kingdom Taiwan Retail internationalisation (RI) research has been concerned primarily with understanding its scope, scale and its motivations and directions at a strategic level (Doherty, 2000). As a result, while...

.../failure and can constitute a valuable tool in the repertoire of the divestment and failure literature. Elke Pioch can be contacted at: e.pioch@mmu.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Retailing Consumer behaviour International marketing Germany United Kingdom Wal‐Mart...