From an international business risk management perspective, the widespread and catastrophic implications of COVID-19 pandemic on performance Zara (Parent company Indetex) are studied analyzed to contribute ongoing research conventional brick-and-mortar retail business. Brick-and-mortar has headed into decline over last several years, e-retailing grown exponentially during lockdown period pandem...

This paper is concerned with the risk management practices of an electricity retailer motivated by Dutch market. We examine effectiveness existing base- and peak-load futures contracts as a tool for retailers. analytically characterize retailer’s optimal hedging policy function serial correlation prices demand profiles its customers. find that typically over-hedges in market, over-hedging amoun...

The main hypothesis of the dissertation is that “e-grocery with home delivery can be more efficient than supermarket retailing handling a similar volume of sales”. The e-grocery business should be seen as an assembly industry producing shopping baskets. Only in this way can the new electronic channel work efficiently. The e-grocery business is usually seen as a supermarket copied into an electr...

Transshipment in retailing is a practice where one outlet ships its excess inventory to another with shortages. By balancing inventories, transshipment can reduce waste and increase fill rate at the same time. In “Separation of Perishable Inventories Offline Retailing Through Transshipment,” Li, Yu, Du explore idea transshipping perishable goods fixed finite lifetime offline grocery retailing. ...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been increasingly promoted as a key solution for comprehensive development, poverty eradication and the empowerment of historically disadvantaged groups, such as women and minorities in the Global South. ICT-based business initiatives, and e-commerce projects in particular, have been hailed as “potential goldmines” for women’s empowerment. ...