How hard discounters are disrupting the traditional retail model -- Hard discounter strategies -- Understanding the hard discounter business model -- Strategies of key hard discounters: aldi, lidl, trader joe¿s and dia -- Hard discounter success around the world -- The next frontier :...

Introduction. Situating Walmart in a global context : workplace cultures, industrial relations and supply chains / Carolina Bank Munoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher -- Wal-mart in Brazil : from global diffusion to national institutional embeddedness? / Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Scott B....

"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...

Introduction -- Up from the tobacco fields -- The rewards of a contrary nature -- A cog in the machine -- Asking Alice -- When we got eyes -- Toys aren't kid stuff -- The eureka moment -- Surprise and delight -- Saving the dollar, changing the world -- Free of distractions -- Birth of the fire...

In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...

Die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Dissertation richten sich sowohl an die wissenschaftliche Forschung als auch an die Immobilienpraxis. Mit dem Konzept des Handelsimmobilientyps und des dynamischen Teilmarktmodells werden zwei theoretische Konstrukte eingeführt, welche für ein gesamtheitliches...

This article studies second-degree price-discrimination in markets for credence goods. Such markets are affected by asymmetric informationbecause expert sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. We show that discrimination...

In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...

In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...

This paper explores how a principal with time-inconsistent preferences invests optimally in technology or capital. If the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future savings and decrease investments in the strategic...

The recent economic downturn has made consumers more focused on obtaining good value-for-money and on keeping their spending in check. This dissertation covers the implications of two recent developments indicative of such smart shoppingʺ: the increased popularity of the hard-discounterʺ...

Männer und Frauen sind unterschiedlich und handeln unterschiedlich. Diese Erkenntnis bildet das Fundament des Gender Marketing, das sowohl in der Theorie als auch in der Praxis zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt. Eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung dieser Disziplin ist für Unter-nehmen eine wichtige...

The limited-line discount store as grocery retailing format succeeded in continuously increasing its market share in Europe as well as in other parts of the world. The business model of hard discounting applied by the German retailers Aldi and Lidl proved to be particularly successful. By...

This article studies the use of different distribution channels as an instrument of price discrimination in credence goods markets. In credence goods markets, where consumers do not know which quality of the good or service they need, price discrimination proceeds along the dimension of quality...

This paper studies the incentives for credence goods experts to invest effort in diagnosis if effort is both costly and unobservable, and if they face competition by discounters who are not able to perform a diagnosis. The unobservability of diagnosis effort and the credence characteristic of...

This paper studies the incentives for credence goods experts to invest effort in diagnosis if effort is both costly and unobservable, and if they face competition by discounters who are not able to perform a diagnosis. The unobservability of diagnosis effort and the credence characteristic of...

This paper studies the incentives for credence goods experts to invest effort in diagnosis if effort is both costly and unobservable, and if they face competition by discounters who are not able to perform a diagnosis. The unobservability of diagnosis effort and the credence characteristic of...