Consumer co‐operatives and retail internationalisation: problems and prospects

Problems and Prospects of Introducing Islamic Microfinance in Azerbaijan Republic

The Role of Store Image in Retail Internationalisation

Recent work on the internationalisation of retailing has focused on a number of themes such as the motives for internationalisation, the geographical flows of investment, the impact of internationalisation upon host environments, and methods and typologies of investment. Less attention has been paid to the process of internationalisation per se. This paper argues that for many retailers, compet...

Consumer and Retail Trends in China

Supermarkets and hypermarkets already dominate the markets of some larger cities, and their continued expansion from major cities into smaller cities is expected to further drive competition in the grocery retail sector. Of the various retail channels, hypermarkets are expected to have the most growth potential in the Chinese market and are benefitting from consumer trends toward convenience an...

Retail Brand Equity and Consumer Learning

Retail brand equity is a critical differentiator in today's competitive marketplace. However, retail managers have few metrics that they can rely on to manage their brand equity. In this paper, we propose a structural model to describe how retail brand equity is formed in each consumer's mind based on his/her consumption experiences across product categories provided by the retailer. Based on t...

Consumer Search and Retail Market Structure

This paper proposes a framework for studying how consumer search and multiproduct purchase a¤ect retail market structure. To provide one-stop shopping convenience and attract more consumers, single-product shops supplying di¤erent products can merge to form a multiproduct retailer. The merger, however, also changes the market structure and a¤ects price competition. When the search friction is n...