Working capital is identified as firm’s all current assets. Inventories which are one of the working capital elements are very important among current assets for firms. Because, profitability is an indicator for firms’ financial success is provided with minimum cost and optimum inventory quantity. So in this study, it is investigated as comparatively that the effect of inventory management on t...

Retailing is a huge industry. In the United States, retail business represents about 40% of the economy and is the largest employer. Retail supply chain management is still more art than science, but this is changing rapidly as retailers begin to apply analytic models to the huge volume of data they are collecting on consumer purchases and preferences. This industry-wide movement resembles the ...

The paper investigates the UK retail sector using store and firm level data between 1998 and 2003. First, we present the first exhaustive description of the UK retail sector using micro data sources. Second, in the spirit of Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2002), we look at the contributions of firm entry and exit for the productivity growth of the sector. Third, we provide some new evidence o...

E-commerce, digital platforms, and transformation (DT) pose major challenges to offline businesses in the retail industry. To offset benefits of data available online businesses, stores must digitalize their rethink value proposition customers. In a digitalized world, this is no longer provided by single companies—leveraging set companies ecosystem jointly create now necessary. Therefore, resea...

OBJECTIVE The study objective was to review internal tobacco industry documents written between 1985 and 1995 regarding the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population in the USA. These documents detail opportunities and barriers to promotion of tobacco products, as viewed by the tobacco industry and its market research firms. DATA SOURCES /methods: Researchers reviewed tobacco indu...