The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for enhancing search and retrieval of product information using content-based image retrieval in an electronic retailing application. Content-based image retrieval techniques have been applied to various applications such as medical information systems, environmental modeling, and satellite image analysis. Such techniques, however, can also...

Online retailing (a model of B2C e-commerce) is growing worldwide, with companies in many countries showing increased sales and productivity as a result. It has great potential within the global economy. This paper looks at the current status of online retailing in Saudi Arabia, with particular focus on what inhibits or enables both the customers and retailers. It also analyses the status of Go...

There are two conflicting streams of research findings on pricing strategy: one is high reputation sellers should charge price premium, while the other is high reputation sellers should charge relatively low price. Motivated by this confliction, this study examines pricing strategy in online retailing marketplace of homogeneous goods. We conduct an empirical study using data collected from a do...

The paper describes the process towards more sustainable production in the retailing sector. In the Business Environmental Barometer, we can identify that companies are trying to expand their environmental boundaries by executing supplier pressure. The companies' expansion from a focus on internal to external activities and actors, is partly due to pressure from their environmental stakeholders...

E-retailers are major players in the field of electronic commerce and their success would seem to depend on service quality, because they are selling the same products that traditional retailers sell. This article critiques Collier and Bienstock’s [5] new measure of e-retailing service quality and shows how the stages of e-retailing service quality can be more validly measured by adopting Rossi...

Virtual Reality Retailing (VRR) has proved to be an emerging retailing channel with an ongoing economic activity in recent years. There are plenty of virtual worlds where businesses develop, some of which have developed a self-governing economy retaining its own currency. While there has been considerable amount of research as far as store atmosphere is concerned in brick-and-mortar and web ret...

This paper investigates the impact of subsidy and horizontal strategic cooperation on a green supply chain where two competing manufacturers distribute substitutable products through exclusive retailers. Models are formulated in three-stage game structures five different scenarios, government organization determines optimal by pursuing social welfare maximization. Both invest improving quality ...

The paper examines the opportunities in and possibilities arising from Big Data in retailing, particularly along five major data dimensions data pertaining to customers, products, time, (geo-spatial) location and channel. Much of the increase in data quality and application possibilities comes from a mix of new data sources, a smart application of statistical tools and domain knowledge combined...

Taking a food supply chain approach, this paper examines the regulation of food marketing and nutrition labelling as strategies to help combat obesity in China in an era of rapid agro-food industry growth. China is the largest food producer and consumer in the world. Since the early 1980s, the agro-food industry has undergone phenomenal expansion throughout the food supply chain, from agricultu...

We discuss some of the practical and ethical questions that may arise for a jurisdiction where a sinking lid endgame strategy for tobacco supply is implemented. Such a strategy would involve regular required reductions in the amount of tobacco released to the market for sale, sufficient to achieve the desired level of commercial sales by a target date. Tobacco manufacturers would periodically b...