Retail Structure

by Gary Akehurst (Editor), Nicholas Alexander (Editor)

Overview

First Published in 1996. The authors define retail structure in a retail distribution context as a snapshot of the state of play in the competitive struggle between retail companies and businesses, each of which is seeking to not only survive but to grow. The studies in this volume were first published in The Service Industries Journal. Taken as a whole they serve two purposes: first, they introduce the concept and process of retail structure taken from the viewpoint of a continuing competitive struggle for market supremacy; and second, they serve as an introduction to the wider study of retail development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136295065
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Gary Akehurst, Nicholas Alexander

Table of Contents

Contemporary perspectives in retail development, Nicholas Alexander; an integrated approach to retail change - the multi-polarisation model, Stephen Brown; concentration in retail distribution - measurement and significance, Gary Akehurst; the distribution systems of supermarket chains, Alan KcKinnon; leadership and change in British retailing 1955-84, Alan Thomas; retailing post-1992, Nicholas Alexander; controls over the development of large stores in Japan, John Dawson, Toshio Sato; checkout the analysis of oligopolistic behaviour in the UK grocery retail market, Gary Akehurst; the outlet/off-price shopping centre a retailing innovation, J. Dennis Lord; spatial-structural relationships in retail corporate growth - a case study of Kwik Save Group Plc, Leigh Sparks.