Purpose – This study aims to present a general overview of the characteristics of virtual communities hosted by apparel retailers. Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis was conducted on 2,521 web sites hosted by apparel retailers. Web sites of apparel retailers were identified from...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship that exists, if any, between employee appearance and organizational identification in the context of apparel retail stores. Design/methodology/approach – Salespeople from a variety of apparel retail stores were...

Purpose – The research purpose was to identify whether changes occurred between 2000 and 2003 in the retail channel use of rural consumers for searching product information and for purchasing food and fiber products and to investigate whether differences existed between channel use groups...