"This innovative volume brings together contributions from leading experts in the study of luxury to present the full range of perspectives on luxury business, from a variety of social science approaches. Topics include conceptual foundations and the evolution of the luxury industry; the...

It's an Amazon world -- Why Amazon is not your average retailer : introduction to retail strategy -- The prime ecosystem: redefining loyalty for today's modern shopper -- Retail apocalypse: reality or myth? -- End of pure-play e-commerce : Amazon's transition to bricks and mortar retailing --...

Multichannel retailing is the set of activities involved in selling merchandise or services to consumers through more than one channel. Multichannel retailers dominate today’s retail landscape. While there are many benefits of operating multiple channels, these retailers also face many...

Klemens Kaps : connectors, networks and commercial systems: approaches to the study of early modern maritime trade history / Manuel Herrero Sánchez -- Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal --...

pt. 1. Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal -- pt. II. The social composition of networks : cultural identities versus transnationality -- pt. III. Connecting spaces : networks and systems, merchants...

Communal responsibility, a medieval institution studied by Greif (2006), supported the use of credit among European merchants in the absence of modern enforcement technologies. This paper shows how this mechanism helps to overcome enforcement problems in anonymous buyer/seller transactions. In a...

Communal responsibility, a medieval institution studied by Greif (2006), supported the use of credit among European merchants in the absence of modern enforcement technologies. This paper shows how this mechanism helps to overcome enforcement problems in anonymous buyer/seller transactions. In a...

The aim of EUROPEAN RETAIL RESEARCH is to publish interesting manuscripts of high quality and innovativeness with a focus on retail researchers, retail lecturers, retail students and retail executives. As it has always been, retail executives are part of the target group and the knowledge...

The aim of EUROPEAN RETAIL RESEARCH is to publish interesting manuscripts of high quality and innovativeness with a focus on retail researchers, retail lecturers, retail students and retail executives. As it has always been, retail executives are part of the target group and the knowledge...

Der kleinflächige Discountmarkt weist als Betriebstyp des Lebensmitteleinzelhandels europaweit und teilweise auch in Übersee kontinuierlich steigende Marktanteile auf. Besonders erfolgreich ist das Geschäftsmodell des Hard-Discounts, das vor allem von den Unternehmen Aldi und Lidl verfolgt...

The aim of EUROPEAN RETAIL RESEARCH is to publish interesting manuscripts of high quality and innovativeness with a focus on retail researchers, retail lecturers, retail students and retail executives. As it has always been, retail executives are part of the target group and the knowledge...

Eine wesentliche Herausforderung für den Handel besteht darin, die wechselnden Positionen und Präferenzen von Konsumenten sowie Herstellern zu vereinen bzw. sie im Sinne einer Gatekeeper-Funktion zu einem sinnvollen Angebot zusammenzustellen. Die zunehmende Bedeutung von...

The aim of EUROPEAN RETAIL RESEARCH is to publish interesting manuscripts of high quality and innovativeness with a focus on retail researchers, retail lecturers, retail students and retail executives. As it has always been, retail executives are part of the target group and the knowledge...

Mit Beiträgen von Peter Jones -- Daphne Comfort -- David Hillier -- Prokopis K. Theodoridis -- Anastasios P. Panopoulos -- Jochen Binder -- Dennis Herhausen -- Nicolas Pernet -- Marcus Schögel -- Alfonso Ruiz Martínez -- Irene Gil Saura -- Thomas Rudolph -- Thomas Schröder -- Tim Böttger --...