Sustainable Retailing

Sustainable Retailing in the Fashion Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

Although sustainability in the fashion industry has gained prominence from both business practices and academic research, retailing, a vital part of the supply chain, has not yet been fairly explored in academia. The interest in this area has increased lately, mainly due to the growing complexity within this dynamic context. Therefore, it is meaningful to conduct a systematic review of the rele...

Mean-downside-risk and mean-variance newsvendor models: Implications for sustainable fashion retailing

Newsvendor models have been well-established for studying supply chain management problems with fashionable products. In this paper, we explore the mean-downside-risk (MDR) andmean-variance (MV) newsvendor models under both the exogenous and endogenous retail price decision cases. We first construct analytical models with the MDR and MV objectives. We then show that the analytical solution sche...

A Framework for Cyber Enhanced Retailing: Integrating E-Commerce Retailing with Brick-and-Mortar Retailing

Along with the exponential growth of e-commerce activities, the world marketplace is undergoing a rapid transformation and retailing is one of the key areas of this revolution. In this paper, we introduce a concept called ‘cyberenhanced retailing’. Cyber-enhanced retailing is a paradigm that melds the advantages of e-commerce with the advantages of traditional physical retailing. The paper intr...

in Retailing

Disclaimer The opinions expressed in this working paper are the responsibility of the author alone. Female retail managers participating in this survey occupy more senior positions than female managers in the general UK labour market. Over one third of the women responding to the survey (36%) describe themselves as middle managers, while one quarter (25%) describe themselves as senior managers....

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