As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread, online consumption habits in China have changed significantly. Thus, the booming online-to-offline (O2O) food ordering and delivery industry via bakery been changing customers’ shopping behavior. This article proposes a comparison relying on advanced O2O strategy for single-vendor-single-retailer integrated system. Three coordination m...

Synopsis: The Tractor Supply Company case introduces students to a unique retailing story. By recognizing a target market with unique needs, TSC repositioned its traditional tractorparts business into a specialty retailer serving a variety of needs for consumers entertaining their interests in part-time farming and ranching. This growing consumer segment has been TSC’s focus for the past 15 yea...

This paper examines connections between data-driven models for analyzing a firm's strategic plans, which use activity-based costing and mathematical programming, and the resource-based view of the firm. After brief reviews of the three disciplines, extensions of activity-based costing methods to mathematical programming models for strategic resource planning are discussed. Applications of these...

This contribution to the discussion on FDI impact in developing countries is based on an empirical study of the consequences of transnational corporations’ presence in the Mexican retailing sector, particularly Wal-Mart. First, we show that the arrival of foreign firms accelerates the modernization but has a negative impact on local firms' performance as well as local worker remuneration as a r...

From the perspectives of the operational objectives of the green supply chain management and in consideration of its economic efficiency, social and environmental impact as well as its unique characteristics, this paper examines the pricing issues of the green supply chain for home appliances industry by using game theory and contract coordination theory. Considering the influences of the effec...

Despite the proliferation of Internet retailing and the relative novelty and complexity of this phenomenon, very little theory-guided qualitative research has been conducted to improve our understanding of the adoption of Internet retailing project by SMEs. This study presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the adoption of Internet retailing for SMEs. Organizational readiness (IT sophist...

This paper explains the development of Multifunctional Barcode Inventory Management System (MBIMS) to manage inventory and stock ordering. Today, most of the retailing market is still manually record their stocks and its effectiveness is quite low. By providing MBIMS, it will bring effectiveness to retailing market in inventory management. MBIMS will not only save time in recording input, outpu...

Omni-channel strategy can be a powerful mechanism through which successful implementing organisations achieve higher levels of resilience to better survive disruptions. However, such potential benefits have been overlooked in existing literature with limited discussions on how omni-channel exploited for uncertain business environments. We conduct an in-depth case study leading UK-based fashion ...

This case study covers the Metro Group's Future Store, an example of emerging information systems applications in brick-and-mortar supermarkets and the retailing supply chain. We illustrate the main functionalities of various content provision devices fed from structured and unstructured data sources as they provide content to the shoppers at their convenience. Further, we outline the two relev...