... Resource based view Product knowledge Competitive advantage Retailing Retailers Product information United Kingdom The expansion of large multiple retail space in local communities and the transfer of consumer buying to out‐of‐town locations has threatened the growth and survival...

... forecasting United Kingdom Sales forecasting An important component of retail location planning involves predicting the revenue of proposed new stores in advance of actual opening. In many areas of the country, those revenues will be driven by domestic consumption – the expenditures generated...

... shopping Consumer behaviour Communication United Kingdom Customer loyalty Clothing is an experience product, with features that can only be evaluated by trying on or inspection, dependent on an individual and their own personal requirements (Nelson, 1974). For retailers selling clothing online...

... Assortment Grocery retail Private brands Corporate social responsibility Social responsibility Spain United Kingdom Corporate social responsibility (CSR hereafter) has gained momentum worldwide. More and more companies are implementing CSR plans and policies in the belief that this will lead...

... Retailing Small shops 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...

... in complementary ways (Sturges et al., 2002). © 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 perspective...

... and Keller (2004 , p. 332), which defined the retail brand as: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United Kingdom Small to medium‐sized enterprises Owner‐managers Retailing Retail branding Brand management SME branding/marketing What is a brand? This classic marketing question...

... Technology led strategy Mobile technology Computing United Kingdom In many retailing companies the capacity to maintain a competitive advantage depends substantially on the quality of a firm's investments in new information technology (IT) (Roussos et al., 2003 ; Saura et al...

...: United Kingdom Retailing Employee behaviour Prompted by changes to the composition of the workforce, demographic shifts and the increased purchasing power of customers from minority groups, organisations including many retailers have shown increasing interest in “diversity management” as a way...

... Business performance Supermarkets Competitive strategy Globalization United Kingdom By 1991, Wal‐Mart was the world's largest retailer, had considerable expansion plans within the USA and was introducing its then new format, the Supercentre. Like many leading North American retailers, however...

... the UK grocery business depends on two factors”: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Competition United Kingdom Retailing Stores and supermarkets Consumer behaviour Shopping As a template for examining the extent of UK retail change in the last few decades, we utilise...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 United Kingdom Shopping Retailers Convenience stores Local shops are an essential part of what makes somewhere a great place to live, with a significance that far outstrips their size. We all find it convenient to be able to pop down...

... on retail logistics in the UK over the last 20‐30 years. John Fernie can be contacted at: j.fernie@hw.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 United Kingdom Retailing Distribution management Research work Sustainability The roots of SCM are often attributed to Drucker...

... that the focus of research tended to be on the supply chain aspects of fast fashion but has largely ignored what happens at the notional “end” of the supply chain, once it has been delivered to the store. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 United Kingdom Retailing Fashion industry Supply...

... service tactics to compete successfully against global retailers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Small to medium‐sized enterprises Retailing Globalization Localization Spain United Kingdom This paper presents the results of an exploratory study into the importance...

.... Managers Human failure Business 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...

... challenges‐facing small towns, there is potential for them to maintain their viability and vitality. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Out of town shopping Retail trade Rural areas Consumer behaviour United Kingdom Small towns are very much a product of their history (heritage...

... 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 attitudinal studies of online consumer behaviour (Dholakia and Uusitalo, 2002 ; Kim...

.../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...

... ; Rafiq and Ahmed, 1995 ; Payne and Ballantyne, 1991). Target customers. Retailers have to adapt to many different types of consumer (Newman and Cullen, 2002 ; Kent and Omar, 2003). Retailing International marketing Fashion industry United Kingdom Taiwan Retail...