This study presents a model in which store affect and store trust mediate the effects of store characteristics on store outcomes. It is proposed that the impacts of store atmosphere and merchandise value on two types of loyalty intentions are mediated by store affect and store trust simultaneously in a dual process model. Customer share of wallet is hypothesized to moderate the effects of these...

Due to increasing concerns about environmental protection, the environmental sustainability of businesses has been widely considered in the manufacturing and supply chain context. Further, its adoption has been implemented in the retail industry for marketing field, including green product promotion. This study aimed to propose a customer purchasing behavior analysis as an alternative for suppo...

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. ABSTRACT ! The diffusion of e-commerce applications and solutions among the investigated firms in the three German industry sectors seems to have reached a high level of saturation of e-commerce technologies. T...

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) recently has gained enormous attention in various industry sectors, the media, and in academic research. This paper focuses in early RFID applications in the retail supply chain. It takes a quick look at the available literature and then explains the technological issues including the need for standardization and the challenges on the data, network, and app...

This paper proposes the use of artificial neural networks (feed forward multi-layer perceptron and Elman recurrent networks) in forecasting sales trends at retail by analyzing industry and manufacturer specific metrics along with national economic indicators. Relevant data drivers were gathered based on consultations with the manufacturer as well as experts in the fields of economics and financ...

A potential retail operations strategy is to have a ‘‘dense’’ store. That is, a store that combines high product variety with a small footprint. Retail management desires smaller stores to provide the strategic benefits of convenience and speed to customers, but desires larger stores to provide high product variety. Noting the benefits of smaller, more numerous stores, several retailers well kn...

Creating a portfolio is one of the mainstream ways for investors to avoid risks. This paper focuses on Chinese investment market, and selects six different industries in A-shares, which are preferred by investors, i.e., real estate industry, food beverage energy medicine finance industry retail industry. selected representative assets from these analysis. closing price data past year, simulates...

Managers craft strategies that, if successfully implemented, can improve profitability and financial performance over time. Can firms repeat their performance over time? If so, then a manager who crafted a successful strategy could expect her/his firm to achieve greater profitability relative to other firms within its industry. The objective of this study was to compare business performance (ac...