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Aldrich, Susan E. "Recommender Systems in Commercial Use." AI Magazine 32, no. 3 (June 9, 2011): 28–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v32i3.2368.
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Commercial recommender systems are deployed by marketing teams to increase revenue and/or personalize user experience. Marketers evaluate recommender systems not on its algorithms but on how well the vendor‘s expertise and interfaces will support achieving business goals. Driven by a business model that pays based on recommendation success, vendors guide clients through continuous optimization of recommendations. While recommender technology is mature, the solutions and market are still young. As a result, solutions are not fully integrated with other business systems and technology platforms. While the market is retail-focused today, interest and vendor offerings are rapidly expanding to other areas. Retail clients will drive social, location, and mobile enhancements.
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Sewell, William, Roger Mason, and Petrus Venter. "Strategic alignment of the South African retail sector with the national development plan." Journal of Governance and Regulation 3, no. 4 (2014): 235–351. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/jgr_v3_i4_c2_p11.
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This paper provides an evaluation of the strategy alignment of the South African retail sector with the National Development Plan (NDP) governance values and objectives. The paper considers the commercial realities which form the framework for retail decision-makers when they address the challenges in aligning their business growth strategies with the regulatory framework of a capable, developmental state. Within that context, the outcomes of a retail stakeholder alignment study of the NDP strategy themes are analysed. The method involved a policy survey of a purposive sample of retail business and governance stakeholders. The survey findings reflect retailer alignment with many NDP regulatory and ‘active citizenry’ strategies, but with strong beliefs that others are not the retail business sector’s governance responsibility.
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Makarova, T. N. "Optimisation Technique of Commercial Processes of Retail Mercantile Business." OrelSIET Bulletin, no. 2 (48) (2019): 171–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.36683/2076-5347-2019-2-48-171-176.
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Minner, Jennifer S., and Xiao Shi. "Churn and change along commercial strips: Spatial analysis of patterns in remodelling activity and landscapes of local business." Urban Studies 54, no. 16 (January 25, 2017): 3655–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016684274.
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Commercial strips are common within metropolitan regions throughout the world and particularly within Canada and the USA. Planners have identified these linear clusters of commercial land use as a form of auto-oriented sprawl on the one hand, and as fertile ground for local independent businesses on the other. Despite the rapid churn of businesses in a number of gentrifying central cities, few studies have examined the distribution or cumulative impacts of commercial remodelling or its relationship to larger scale urban transformations. In this research, we demonstrate methods used to identify spatial patterns in central city remodelling activity. Getis Ord Gi*, also known as hot spot analysis, is used to identify clusters of reinvestment activity associated with locally owned restaurant and retail businesses. Associations with differences in urban form are observed, including clustering of independently owned restaurant and retail businesses along areas of commercial strips with smaller lots. Theories on the location of clusters in older buildings are also tested, with mixed results. In addition, we use a Redevelopment Impact Index to capture the degree of external modification to commercial buildings and the nature of changes in building usage. Point density analysis is used to identify areas where commercial remodels are likely to add up to entertainment and leisure zones. The results of statistical tests show some association between proximity to the restaurant and retail clusters and new, mixed use development. Thus, we illustrate methods of examining emerging landscapes of local restaurant and retail business and their relationship to larger scales of redevelopment. This methodology has applications in the study of incubation and retention of local businesses, land use planning and redevelopment along commercial strips, and gentrification studies.
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Meltzer, Rachel, and Sean Capperis. "Neighbourhood differences in retail turnover: Evidence from New York City." Urban Studies 54, no. 13 (September 6, 2016): 3022–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016661268.
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Urban neighbourhoods are defined as much by their commercial character as their residential; retail services not only provide material needs for those living nearby, but less-tangible social and cultural capital as well. It is reasonable to expect, then, that excessive churn in these businesses can threaten the stability of a neighbourhood. Using a longitudinal data set on mixed-use neighbourhoods in New York City, we test whether or not neighbourhoods of varying circumstances and characteristics experience different degrees and types of retail turnover. Results suggest that there are meaningful differences in retail turnover across neighbourhoods. Retail turnover is directly associated with the type of business activity, commercial infrastructure and the neighbourhood’s consumer profile. However, when all three sets of factors are considered simultaneously in a regression analysis, consumer-related characteristics explain turnover more than those related to the local commercial environment. Specifically, businesses that provide necessity and more frequently consumed goods/services are more stable and chain establishments are more likely to venture into markets with some housing price discounts, growth potential and possibly less organised opposition. Neighbourhoods with less (and more heterogeneous) general retail (as opposed to food service) concentration, as well as bigger businesses, are more stable. More importantly, bigger households and higher shares of white residents are most strongly associated with less retail churn, and population growth is the strongest predictor of more turnover.
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Vashakmadze, Teimuraz, Emil Martirosyan, and Anastasia Sergeeva. "Creating Value in a Retail Business. Evidence From the Russian Food Retail Market." Journal of Corporate Finance Research / Корпоративные Финансы | ISSN: 2073-0438 9, no. 1 (April 14, 2015): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/j.jcfr.2073-0438.9.1.2015.48-58.
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Teimuraz Teimurazovich Vashakmadze - Director of the Master's program, assistant professor of business and management strategy, IBDA RASHiGS under the President of the Russian Federation.Emil G. MartirosyanAnastasia Alexandrovna Sergeeva
In the post crisis years, the Russian food retail market has skyrocketed and run ahead of the market in general. Our research reveals major value drivers and explores the value creation of companies by comparison based on a P/B ratio. The analysis of performance indicators of the three biggest Russian food retailers provides evidence suggests that ROE can explain the difference and positive relationship of a P/B ratio. Our findings suggest that retail companies are increasing ROE through net profit margin improvement. In addition, we found out that a higher Store/DC ratio has a strong correlation to the ROE of a company. The key question of the paper is identifying a combination of factors that drive performance and value creation in post-crisis period in non-consolidated Russian food retail market. Thus, our research is aimed at providing a broader picture of factors that influence value creation in a retail market, such as cross-docking, franchising, recognition of product matrix, management decision decentralization, focusing on core activity and commercial conditions with suppliers. In this article we have explained the business factors that mostly influenced the corporate ROE and the price-per-book value of the company of the Russian food retail industry. After the analysis of three Russian retail chains we have come to the conclusion that the retail business development in Russia (apart from the consumer market factors) mostly depends on efficient management in operations and on having good commercial conditions with suppliers. At the same time there is a direct impact on the retailers’ gross margins from the specific operational solutions like crossdocking implementations.
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Blanchard, Kenneth, Jean Perrien, Francois Marticotte, and Kamilia Bahia. "The nurturing of relationships in commercial and retail banking." Services Marketing Quarterly 21, no. 2 (2000): 43–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15332969.2000.9985418.
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Truninger, Monica. "Engaging Science with Commercial Partners." Gastronomica 15, no. 3 (2015): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2015.15.3.40.
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Engaging with commercial partners is increasingly required by public science funding agencies and encouraged by government officials. Reasons for this shift include alleviating the strain on government science budgets and opening up possibilities for scientists to secure jobs in private companies. Universities have also begun to advocate for strategies and policies that facilitate commercial collaborations. Similarly, there is interest—although still scattered in Portugal—among the business sector to look for “something different” in order to prepare for the complex problems that await in an uncertain future. This essay addresses the process of gaining entrée to a major Portuguese food retailer by making use of the metaphors of flirting and dating. The slow process of engagement with this retailer is described, in particular a two-day “backstage” visit of its food retail operations. During these interactions the challenges of commercial–science collaborations with regard to differing expectations and objectives—in areas such as trust issues; confidentiality agreements; integrity of scientific objectives versus the pressures of market-driven organizations; the different nature and uses of information—are unveiled. The disparate conceptions of time and output delivery, together with the different rhythms of making business and making science, are discussed. To conclude, the “dating” and “flirting” stages of the relationship between social researchers and food retailers reflect a slow process that involves diplomatic skills, open minds, and the constant juggling of “familiar” and “unfamiliar” ways of thinking and doing.
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Ali, Amjad, Sher Muhammad Malik, and Mushtaq Ahmad Jan. "Delimitation of the Central Business District Peshawar (Pakistan)." Global Social Sciences Review III, no. I (March 30, 2018): 194–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(iii-i).13.
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The present study identifies the limits and pattern of commercial activities within CBD of Peshawar. Retailing is topmost paying commercial activity and occupies the highest bid-rent location in the city. The Central Business District (CBD) is the retail heart of the city. The spatial arrangement of commercial activities happens to be very complex and their limits are dynamic in the CBD of Peshawar. The land value, rent values, taxation system, commuter behaviour, nature and transformation of commercial activities are directly dependent on this spatial arrangement and delimitation of CBD. The methodology adopted for this study is the combination of traditional rules/methods with modern tool of GIS. The results for spatial arrangement of commercial activities and delimitation of CBD are more precise which can enable the city planners and investors to achieve better sustainable development in city and regional context.
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Gandhi, Akshali, and Jennifer Minner. "Economic Development Challenges for Immigrant Retail Corridors: Observations From Chicago’s Devon Avenue." Economic Development Quarterly 31, no. 4 (September 18, 2017): 342–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891242417730401.
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Immigrant entrepreneurship is important to local and regional economies, cultural identity, placemaking, and tourism. Meanwhile, regional conditions, such as the development of suburban immigrant gateway communities and increases in the cost of business ownership, complicate local economic development efforts in urban ethnic districts. This research is presented as a mixed–methods case study of Devon Avenue in Chicago, IL, home to a significant concentration of South Asian–owned immigrant businesses. Challenges and pressures facing businesses are examined through merchant surveys and interviews. Observations reinforce the notion that cultural competency and strong grassroots leadership is vital for economic development planning so that “capitalizing” on an ethnic heritage does not become a tool for commodification or commercial gentrification. Agencies must also be mindful of the impacts associated with suburbanization of immigrant communities and take a long-term, regional approach to planning in ethnic commercial corridors.
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Kosta, Ervin B. "Commercial Gentrification Indexes: Using Business Directories to Map Urban Change at the Street Level." City & Community 18, no. 4 (December 2019): 1101–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cico.12468.
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This article presents the case for utilizing business directories in building commercial gentrification indexes as tools for research on neighborhood change. It reviews several existing methods of capturing retail change within the growing literature, codifies them as the boutique index, the food index, and the ethnic index, and discusses methodological issues that emerge in building them. A comparative case study of two Little Italies in NYC employs multiple indexes to reveal that the food index––rather than ethnic index––provided the key variable in understanding how consumption practices marked different trajectories of neighborhood change. Whereas the sociological literature on gentrification has primarily relied on socioeconomic indicators and housing data, changing retail landscapes have been understudied and measuring commercial gentrification remains a site–specific, ad–hoc endeavor. To overcome this gap, the article calls for methodological standardization across different sites to increase attention to the role of commercial spaces in accounts of gentrification.
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Wolf, Kathleen L. "Community Context and Strip Mall Retail." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2060, no. 1 (January 2008): 95–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2060-11.
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Strip malls (or mini-malls) are a common land use, historically promoted by U.S. zoning practices that concentrate retail and commercial development in a narrow band along urban arterials and major streets. They are an entry-level retail niche offering opportunity for independent, start-up businesses that serve a limited market. Communities have begun to question land uses that enable efficient ingress and egress of vehicles in retail and commercial districts but give little attention to multimodal motility. Some communities are redeveloping small mall zones on the basis of “complete street” principles, expanding landscape plantings, and redeveloping the character of a business district. This study assessed public response to one element of small mall (re)development: landscape and vegetation. Prior studies indicated that consumer behavior is positively associated with city trees (urban forest) on multiple cognitive and behavioral dimensions. In mail surveys depicting varied roadside treatments, residents of three major cities in the Pacific Northwest were asked to indicate preferences and perceptions about proposed changes. Survey stimulus materials addressed visual quality, retail perceptions, patronage behavior, wayfinding, and willingness to pay for goods and services. Combined econometrics and psychometrics indicated that respondents prefer landscaped roadsides and report positive retail behavior, such as willingness to pay 8.8% more for goods and services in well-landscaped malls. Redevelopment and roadside management guidelines are proposed based on the research results, with implications for the economics of local communities.
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Han, Euna, Lisa M. Powell, Shannon N. Zenk, Leah Rimkus, Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, and Frank J. Chaloupka. "Classification bias in commercial business lists for retail food stores in the U.S." International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 9, no. 1 (2012): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-9-46.
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Kocakoç, Ipek Deveci, and Sabri Erdem. "Business Intelligence Applications in Retail Business: OLAP, Data Mining & Reporting Services." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 09, no. 02 (June 2010): 171–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649210002541.
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As a result of today's competitive business environment, companies have been trying to improve the utilization of funds effectively in their budgets for information technology investments. These companies retrieve more information with the same set of resources by means of business intelligence methods. According to Rubin (Chabrow, 2004) IT budgets are not simply declining or levelling off, rather, companies are shifting from a pure cost-cut mode to a model that emphasises agility and efficiency. Tremendous daily growth of the company data requires more funds and investment for establishing the technologies and infrastructure necessary for gathering fast and crucial information that supports the decision making process. This necessity gave birth to various business intelligence methods, which mainly aim to process mass amount of collected data from their existing application, and represent it in a way with which companies can apply to their daily competitive decisions. This application primarily concerns the implementation of business intelligence for a retail business company. The aim is to implement built-in business intelligence solutions of the Microsoft SQL Server that holds the commercial information of the company for the past three years. The customer company has already been using Microsoft products. The key items used for analyzing data are sales, momentary inventory and logistics information. The application can be grouped in five main areas: Building the data warehouse, constructing OLAP cubes, applying data mining algorithms on OLAP cubes, representing the results in reports with reporting services, and implementation.
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Wen, Weisheng, Qiongwei Luo, and Quansi Wen. "The Construction of New Business Format Marketing Strategy and Price Strategy Model." Journal of Management and Strategy 9, no. 4 (September 11, 2018): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jms.v9n4p62.
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Under the background of Internet plus in contemporary China, new retail format of Online To Offline (O2O) has become the new engine of China's economic innovation and development. The new format marketing strategy has become the new focus of the market. A strategic model that can be applied to the pricing of online and offline products is an indispensable element of the corporate marketing strategy. This paper takes the O2O new retail format price strategies of Dama and Yongsheng as the research background and re-examines the influencing factors in the western price theory system. Based on the pricing model applicable to commercial enterprises, this paper discusses the theory of the construction of the price strategy model with the O2O new retail format. Through the high participation of enterprises, and the discussion and test of the theoretical model with the enterprise, the theoretical models are given higher value.
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McGough, A. J., and S. Tsolacos. "The Stylised Facts of the UK Commercial Building Cycles." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 29, no. 3 (March 1997): 485–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a290485.
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In the present study we undertake a statistical analysis of the cyclical properties of certain economic, financial, and real property-market variables and attempt to establish the stylised facts in relation to the office, industrial, and retail property cycle in the United Kingdom. We build upon the methodology which has been adopted in modern business-cycle research to confirm the cyclical regularities of aggregate variables and business fluctuations across countries and over time. The results of this study establish for certain variables the presence of relative cyclical movements over the phases of the property cycles which conform to theoretical intuition. They also identify cyclical irregularities across property sectors, which the existing property-cycle literature would need to address.
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Hughes, Michael P. "The US Militarys Department Store - The Military Exchanges: Should They Be Replaced By Commercial Retailers?" Journal of Business Case Studies (JBCS) 11, no. 3 (June 30, 2015): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jbcs.v11i3.9288.
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The mission of the military exchange program is to (1) provide quality merchandise to military members and their families worldwide at competitive prices, and (2) generate income to support military morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) programs. In overseas locations the military exchanges provide military members and their families with familiar competitively-priced, top-quality American products and services, priced in US dollars. The military exchanges are agencies of the US Department of Defense (DOD). The exchanges are tax free stores. This tax advantage, in concert with the exchanges competitive pricing, helps make the products and services offered affordable for military members on their all-too-often meager salaries. Profits from the military exchanges are channeled to MWR programs benefiting military personnel and their families worldwide. However, could and should military exchange functions be contracted to commercial businesses that are actually in the business of retail? The purpose of DOD is national defense, not retail sales and the related logistics. While the original need for establishing a military-operated exchange program was valid many years ago when the commercial sector was not capable supporting worldwide military operations and operating locations, is that still the case? Could a negotiated contract with a major commercial retailer provide service members and their families with better products, at better prices, and with better service, all at reduced cost to the US government, hence reduced cost the US taxpayers?
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Satyr, L., V. Kepko, L. Stadnik, and A. Nepochatenko. "BUSINESS ANALYTICAL WORK IN THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: SUBSTANTIATION OF ECONOMIC DECISIONS CONCERNING RETAIL TRADE." Investytsiyi: praktyka ta dosvid, no. 15-16 (September 4, 2020): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.32702/2306-6814.2020.15-16.17.
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Jantan, M. Asri, and Earl D. Honeycutt. "Current Sales Training Practices in the Commercial Retail Banking Industry in Malaysia." Services Marketing Quarterly 34, no. 1 (January 2013): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15332969.2013.739876.
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Fontaine, Lisa, and Susan L. Bradbury. "Providing brand guidance for independent businesses:." Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 5–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2470-9670.2017.v2.i1.a16.
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If downtown retail districts are to compete with franchise-heavy commercial districts and malls, their small independent businesses must communicate a vibrant, alternative message through graphic identities. The identity that represents each business is the most important aspect of this message, and it needs to be planned and implemented with great care. Based upon our research we propose ways to assist business owners and communities with graphic messaging and its application to signage by providing the communication guidance that is missing in design standards and sign regulations. Through an understanding of communication theory and examining both positive and negative examples of business signs and community design standards, we demonstrate how communities and regulations can be improved to better serve of the unique communication needs and goals of small, independent businesses and the community.
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De-Juan-Vigaray, María D., and Ana I. Espinosa Seguí. "Retailing, Consumers, and Territory: Trends of an Incipient Circular Model." Social Sciences 8, no. 11 (October 28, 2019): 300. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8110300.
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The aim of this theoretical research is to analyze the state of retail distribution nowadays, reviewing the dynamics of action that contribute to the move from a linear to an incipient circular retail model. The framework is based on the Retail Wheel Spins Theory and the Retail Life Cycle (RLC), with an extra review of Bauman’s liquid metaphor. We consider two questions. Firstly, are offline retailers ready to disappear as online commerce and digital marketing aggressively break into the retail industry? Secondly, could commercial spaces (in the fifth stage in the evolution of retail and territory) be in the decline stage in the RLC in the near future or can a circular connection take place? Thus, a desk research methodology based on secondary documentary material and sources issued leads to an interpretive analysis that reveals ten trends (e.g., solid retail vs. liquid retail; glocal retail; food sovereignty) and a wide diversity of changes that could involve offline stores recovering territory and entering a circular phase. Our findings suggest that digitalized physical stores are flourishing and our reflections augur changes in pace and the closure of the linear business cycle to recover territory, the city, its local market, and its symbolism, as well as a liquid business steeped in omnichannel formats developing an incipient circular movement. Conclusions indicate that it is possible to perceive a timid change back to territory and retail spaces which, along with phygitalization, will coexist with the digital world.
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Wilson, John, Anthony Webster, and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh. "The Co-operative Movement in Britain: From Crisis to “Renaissance,” 1950–2010." Enterprise & Society 14, no. 2 (June 2013): 271–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/es/khs076.
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Between 1950 and 2010, the British co-operative movement faced a series of commercial, structural, and corporate governance crises. Having pioneered many of the features of modern large-scale retailing since its origins in the mid-nineteenth century, from the 1950s the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) and the retail cooperative societies it served experienced plummeting market share, continued internecine rivalries, and increasing marginalization. In the early twenty-first century, however, co-operatives improved their market share and experienced a “Renaissance” in commercial fortunes despite continued fierce competition in food retailing. As yet there has been little exploration of the nature of this turnaround and the ways in which the once-foundering co-operative business model was re-engineered.Drawing on new research into the CWS (renamed The Co-operative Group in 2001), this article provides a historical analysis of the movement’s decline and revival. As the article details, from the 1950s significant efforts were made to reform CWS and the movement as a whole. However, co-operatives were slow to adapt to the changing business environment, hampered by dysfunctional organizational dynamics that constrained structural change and limited efforts to compete with private retail multiples. Following an unsuccessful takeover bid for CWS in 1997, co-operative opinion coalesced around the need for change. In the final section, the authors analyze the factors underpinning the “Renaissance,” focusing on both organizational innovations and the reassertion of core values and principles on which co-operation had been built. This provides a fascinating illustration of how a business can respond effectively to internal and external challenges, yet retain its fundamental character.
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Perry, Patsy, and Margarita Kyriakaki. "The decision-making process of luxury fashion retail buyers in Greece." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management 18, no. 1 (March 4, 2014): 85–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfmm-06-2012-0030.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the decision-making process used by luxury fashion retail buyers in Greece in order to assess the applicability of Sheth's (1981) model to the selection of brands and collections by retail buyers in luxury fashion resellers. Design/methodology/approach – The study takes an interpretive approach, utilising participant observation and semi-structured interviews with retail buyers in five luxury fashion reseller companies in Greece, which boasts the world's highest proportion of luxury fashion consumers. Qualitative data were analysed thematically according to the theoretical constructs in Sheth's (1981) model of merchandise buyer behaviour. Findings – Brand reputation, quality, appropriateness for the market and exclusive distribution were the most important criteria for supplier selection. For evaluating merchandise, the most important criteria were design, style, fashionability and quality. The most relevant influencer of decision making in supplier selection was the competitive structure in terms of the power balance between retailer and brand. For merchandise selection, the most relevant influencing factors were retailer size, management mentality, product positioning and type of decision (re-buy or new task). Research limitations/implications – Due to the exploratory nature of the study and its focus on the context of a particular geographical marketplace, the findings may not be generalised to other countries. Originality/value – This paper provides an insight into the decision-making practice of retail buyers in Greek luxury fashion retailers, where the buying task involves balancing the retailer's commercial interests with a more cultural role in terms of shaping fashion trends and generating PR and publicity for the retailer. The task is further complicated by the power imbalance between retailer and brand, enabling brands to impose limitations on the buyer's decision. Additionally, the combined influence of shortening product life cycles, increasing product variety and the emergence of a new and younger luxury fashion consumer requires a shift from intuitive to scientific, data-driven decision making.
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Bo, Xi. "The Change in the Marketing Strategy of Commercial Retail Enterprises under B2B Model." Applied Mechanics and Materials 644-650 (September 2014): 6118–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.644-650.6118.
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The traditional B2B commercial model puts particular emphasis on the direct interaction between commodity providers and commodity buyers. With the development of information technology, the electronic commerce system of indirect B2B model has already emerged gradually. The buyer and seller are to realize the complete business process through comprehensively integrating logistics, information flow and cash flow based on intermediate platform .This paper has analyzed the functional component of system from foreground and background through taking the demand of indirect B2B model’s electronic commerce system as the pulling, it would demonstrate the key technology of transforming sales order into purchasing order ,and establish system architecture with high load and safety.
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Pick, Aleksander, Olegas Vasilecas, Diana Kalibatienė, and Rok Rupnik. "ON APPROACH FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA MINING TO BUSINESS PROCESS OPTIMISATION IN COMMERCIAL COMPANIES." Technological and Economic Development of Economy 19, no. 2 (June 17, 2013): 237–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20294913.2013.796501.
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Nowadays, organisations aim to automate their business processes to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, improve the quality of customer service and reduce the probability of human error. Business process intelligence aims to apply data warehousing, data analysis and data mining techniques to process execution data, thus enabling the analysis, interpretation, and optimisation of business processes. Data mining approaches are especially effective in helping us to extract insights into customer behaviour, habits, potential needs and desires, credit associated risks, fraudulent transactions and etc. However, the integration of data mining into business processes still requires a lot of coordination and manual adjustment. This paper aims at reducing this effort by reusing successful data mining solutions. We propose an approach for implementation of data mining into a business process. The confirmation of the suggested approach is based on the results achieved in eight commercial companies, covering different industries, such as telecommunications, banking and retail.
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Mariano, Jefferson. "Marketing structure and the tendencies towards business activity." Revista Ibero-Americana de Estratégia 1, no. 1 (November 29, 2007): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5585/ijsm.v1i1.14.
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The aim of this paper is both to present a characterization of the business activity sector focusing on the São Paulo's metropolitan region (RMSP) and emphasize the commercial concentrating process, which has been in evidence mainly in hyper and super markets. This paper is divided into 3 sections. The first one will illustrate the concentrating process in some retail trade, which will be done under the light of market structural theories. The second section will present a economic chart with information directed to Brazil, more specifically to São Paulo State and its metropolitan area. Finally, the third one will point out the perspectives and tendencies towards this economic activity.
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Ziff, Bruce, and Ken Jiang. "SCORCHED EARTH: THE USE OF RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS TO STIFLE COMPETITION." Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 30, no. 2 (October 1, 2012): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v30i2.4370.
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Restrictive covenants running with freehold land are sometimes used as a means of impeding commercial competition. For example, when a firm elects to relocate a retail operation and sell the existing site, a covenant may be placed on the title to that site designed to prohibit a competing retail business from operating on those lands. It is known, for example, that the multinational grocery chain Safeway has adopted this practice extensively in Edmonton. Likewise, the practice is found in other Canadian and American cities, in relation not only to grocery stores, but also concerning a range of other retail businesses. Still, little is known about the extent to which covenants are used in this manner.This article contains an empirical inquiry into the use of covenants in a commercial setting in Edmonton, Alberta. It also explores the manner in which the law responds, and should respond, to mediate public values and private interests within this context.Les clauses restrictives qui accompagnent les fonds francs sont parfois utilisées pour entraver la concurrence commerciale. Par exemple, lorsqu’une entreprise choisit de déménager une activité de détail et qu’elle vend l’emplacement existant, le titre de propriété des lieux peut être assorti d’une clause restrictive visant à empêcher un commerce de détail concurrentiel de faire des affaires sur les lieux mêmes. On sait, par exemple, que la chaîne de supermarchés multinationaux Safeway a eu amplement recours à cette pratique à Edmonton. On retrouve également cette pratique dans d’autres villes canadiennes et américaines, non seulement en ce qui concerne les épiceries, mais en ce qui concerne une gamme de commerces de détail. Malgré cela, on a très peu idée de la mesure dans laquelle ces clauses restrictives sont utilisées de cette manière.Le présent article contient une enquête empirique sur l’utilisation des clauses restrictives dans un contexte commercial à Edmonton, en Alberta. Il explore également la manière dont le législateur réagit, et devrait réagir, pour concilier les valeurs publiques et les intérêts privés dans ce contexte.
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Weyers, Joseph R. "English shop names in the retail landscape of Medellín, Colombia." English Today 32, no. 2 (December 21, 2015): 8–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078415000607.
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The city of Medellín, Colombia's second largest, impresses the visitor. What was once the most dangerous city in the world has gone through a metamorphosis since drug lord Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Indeed, in 2013, Medellín was named the World's Most Innovative City by the Wall Street Journal and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). ‘Few cities have transformed the way that Medellín… has in the past 20 years' reads the ULI's explanation (Wall Street Journal, 2013, online). Medellín is now poised to move forward with its innovative infrastructure projects, and looks to position itself as a center of international business, technology, and education (Alexander, 2015). One of the ways in which this new international outlook manifests itself is in the ever-increasing use of English in various areas of public life, notably in advertising and in shop names. Accordingly, this study explores and describes the use of English in shop names in a cross section of commercial areas in Medellín. First, we consider the use of English shop names in four shopping malls that serve customers from a variety of socioeconomic strata. Note that our use of ‘shop’ refers not only to stores but also restaurants, bars, travel agencies, and any other commercial enterprise. Second, we look at four public commercial corridors (retail streets or demarcated zones) in metropolitan Medellín through a similar lens. From these two commercial venues, we find that English use is common in Medellín's retail landscape and that it increases as the socioeconomic status of the target consumers increases.
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Munshi, Talat, Mark Brussel, Mark Zuidgeest, and Martin Van Maarseveen. "Development of Employment Sub-centres in the City of Ahmedabad, India." Environment and Urbanization ASIA 9, no. 1 (January 23, 2018): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0975425317748521.
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This article describes how employment sub-centres can be identified applying geo-spatial modelling techniques in the context of metropolitan areas in India, and how the development of these employment centres can be linked to the levels of accessibility to labour, access to transport infrastructure as well as land use mix and land use diversity. For the city of Ahmedabad, employment sub-centres are identified for the year 2010, while the progression of employment in retail, commercial and industrial sectors in each of these centres is studied for the period from 1980 to 2010. Definite the signs of sprawl-type development and polarization reversal are observed, including the emergence of new employment sub-centres across the urban area, and the rapid growth of centres further away from the central business district. Retail and commercial sectors have grown exponentially, whereas industrial and manufacturing sector’s growth is stagnant. This development is mixed and heterogeneous, with the growth of the retail and the commercial sectors found to have a significant and positive relation with access to labour and transport infrastructure. These identified patterns of development provide important information to urban planners enabling them to make informed decision, for example, in locating future employment activities, identifying future transit-oriented development nodes, etc.
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Je, Seung-Wook, Jeong-Gyu Kang, and Yung-Keun Kim. "An Empirical Analysis of Change in Retail Markets by Degree of Diversity in Commercial Business Type." Residential Environment Institute Of Korea 16, no. 2 (March 27, 2018): 357–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.22313/reik.2018.16.2.357.
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TSOUTSOS, Michail-Christos, and Yorgos Photis. "Spatial point pattern analysis of urban retail stores: the case of twelve large- and medium-sized Greek cities." European Journal of Geography 11, no. 4 (December 16, 2020): 36–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.48088/ejg.m.mar.11.4.36.63.
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The retailers’ profitability and the consumers’ satisfaction depend on finding the optimal location for a retail store. When considering the stores’ spatial distribution, business potential can be understood and a squandering planning of resources can be avoided. In this paper we identify the spatial patterns of retail stores located in the traditional commercial centers of twelve large -and medium-sized Greek cities, aiming to explain why such patterns exist. The type of retail activities was determined using the image of the ground-floor stores provided by the Google Street View (GSV) service and thus 7322 stores were recorded in a geodatabase as point features. The results reveal that the retail stores’ distribution has a clustered and random spatial pattern at least in one city, where the high population density and the increase in rental prices of premises for professional activities constitute the factors that form these spatial patterns respectively.
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Fullerton, Thomas M., and Ana P. Gutiérrez-Zubiate. "Regional Household Economic Stress and Retail Sales Fluctuations." Business and Economic Research 10, no. 3 (June 23, 2020): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ber.v10i3.16875.
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Economic stress indices are used to monitor business cycle conditions in several regions. Although the deployment of these tools is spreading, there have been relatively few efforts to empirically assess the performance of these gauges, especially at the regional level. This study takes advantage of one such index that is published monthly and has more than 15 years of historical data. Results obtained confirm an inverse relationship between household economic duress and retail sales activity, but it is not found to be statistically reliable over the long-run. Deviations from equilibrium are found to last for 142 months. More relevantly, a 1-point increase in the index is associated with a $3.48 million decline in total commercial activity. Additional testing using data for other regions and/or economic variables appears warranted. Empirical analysis that examines additional potential short-run linkages for El Paso may also prove useful.
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Marín-García, Antonio, Irene Gil-Saura, María Eugenia Ruiz-Molina, and Gloria Berenguer-Contrí. "Sustainability, Store Equity, and Satisfaction: The Moderating Effect of Gender in Retailing." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (January 19, 2021): 1010. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13021010.
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Currently, sustainability emerges as a key element on which the development of competitive advantages for businesses is based. In the dynamic and turbulent environment in which retail companies operate, sustainable practices are posited as an opportunity for their progress and survival. Through this article, it is intended to advance the nature and dimensions of this construct and examine its influence on store equity and consumer satisfaction. Furthermore, this work analyses the moderating effect of gender on these variables and the mediating nature of brand equity in the development of consumer satisfaction. All this is developed through a quantitative study carried out on a sample of 510 consumers of different food retail commercial formats (hypermarkets, supermarkets, and discount stores) in Spain. The technique used for data analysis is partial least squares (PLS) regression. The results show the importance of sustainability and brand equity in the development of consumer satisfaction in the retail sector, with the intensity of its effects being a gender issue. On the other hand, brand equity is positioned as a key element thanks to its mediating effect between sustainability and satisfaction. All of this points to the need to move towards more sustainable business models.
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Анашкина, Елена, Elena Anashkina, Виктор Заернюк, and Viktor Zaernyuk. "Modern points of view on the natural person problem loans management system construction in the commercial banks." Services in Russia and abroad 8, no. 6 (December 2, 2014): 158–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/6695.
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The article is connected with the scoring penalties (collection scoring) actual problem. This problem study popularity is provided by a number of reasons. At first, it happened in Russia for the reason of recent decade credit market, especially the retail sector, intensive development. Objectively, the increasing lending volumes leads to the credit risk increasing. The credit risks are connected with all the banking system in the country, especially with the credit and financial institutions. Therefore, the credit risk management in the retail sector quality is one of the most important factors of competitiveness of the bank. The well adjusting scoring model as one of the instrument of borrower credit risks level minimization, becomes the leading element in a banking business system, objectively, it leads to this phenomenon science researching necessity. This very fact, its actuality and value had determined the subject choice. The authors offered the scoring penalties system main elements.
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Chen, Ye-Sho, Chuanlan Liu, Qingfeng Zeng, and Renato F. L. Azevedo. "E-Business Strategy in Franchise Relationship Management." International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications 3, no. 1 (January 2012): 54–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2012010104.
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Franchising as a global growth strategy, especially in emerging markets, is gaining its popularity. For example, the U.S. Commercial Service estimated that China, having over 2,600 brands with 200,000 franchised retail stores in over 80 sectors, is now the largest franchise market in the world. The popularity of franchising continues to increase, as people witness an emergence of a new e-business model, Netchising, which is the combination power of the Internet for global demand-and-supply processes and the international franchising arrangement for local responsiveness. The essence of franchising lies in managing the good relationship between the franchisor and the franchisee. This paper shows e-business strategy plays an important role in growing and nurturing such a good relationship. Specifically, the authors discuss: managing the franchisor/franchisee relationship, harnessing the e-business strategy, aligning the e-business strategy with application service providers, and an attention-based framework for franchisee training.
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Bobkov, Aleksandr L., Igor V. Denisov, and Oksana V. Kuchmaeva. "Research of organizational structure of retail business and educational institution by methods of statistical analysis." Statistics and Economics 16, no. 1 (March 19, 2019): 11–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2500-3925-2019-1-11-21.
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The purpose of the study.The purpose of the research is to define a previously developed theoretical evolution model of an organizational structure, that is based on the hypothesis that the two types of organizational structures, consecutive and parallel, succeed each other, undergoing quality changes with the growth and development of organisations, though pertaining properties which determine the structure characteristics and provide a sufficient growth of organizations’ efficiency. Following the results of the authors’ previous research, it was hypothesized that the growth of an organization during a transition from one to the other type of organization structure follows either intensive or extensive pattern and is defined by the type of the transformation.Materials and methods.The study analyzed the retail trade sector, with isolated branches that distinguish this type of organizational structures, and educational institutions. The authors believe that organizations of similar types possess similar (consecutive and parallel) organizational structures. Groups of similar objects were identified by the cluster analysis used for grouping basic data. Following this, the results of cluster analysis were defined and key factors for patterns of organizational development were selected by the principal component analysis. Also, the Objectives Tree method was applied to gauge the effect of the types of educational services on the performance of private educational organizations and their structure. The research analyzed the data obtained from the database of commercial organizations of Czech Republic.Results.In general, the proposed model of the evolution of an organizational structure in retail business was redefined, and the outcomes of the conducted analysis allow defining the following:– when transitioning from the parallel to the consecutive organizational structure, the growth can be described as intensive, and while the consecutive model transitions to the parallel organizational structure the growth follows the extensive pattern;– development of retail business is defined by the three key factors: size of an organization, its performance efficiency and lifetime. The cluster analysis of educational organisations revealed seven clusters. After analysis of average values of variables, these clusters can be grouped in five. These outcomes led to the additional research with Objectives Tree, which showed that both small and large educational organisations employ their certain typical features of educational services. A similar pattern describes certain types of educational services in the organisations of different lifetime.Conclusion.The outcomes of the cluster analysis of commercial organisations of two sectors of Czech Republic and their further analysis confirmed the suggested hypothesis and matched corresponding theoretical evolution models of organizational structures, the results also showed intensive growth when transitioning from the parallel to the consecutive organizational structure and extensive growth when the transition changes from the consecutive to the parallel organizational structure. The alternating patterns of consecutive and parallel structures, as well as suggested gauging of the transition effectiveness will allow owners and management staff to efficiently maintain sustainable development of commercial organisations.
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Greenhalgh, Paul Michael, Kevin Muldoon-Smith, and Sophie Angus. "Commercial property tax in the UK: business rates and rating appeals." Journal of Property Investment & Finance 34, no. 6 (September 5, 2016): 602–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpif-03-2016-0014.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the introduction of the business rates retention scheme (BRRS) in England which transferred financial liability for backdated appeals to LAs. Under the original scheme, business rates revenue, mandatory relief and liability for successful appeals is spilt 50/50 between central government and local government which both share the rewards of growth and bear the risk of losses. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts a microanalysis approach into researching local government finance, conducting a case study of Leeds, to investigate the impact of appeals liability and reveal disparities in impact, through detailed examination of multiple perspectives in one of the largest cities in the UK. Findings The case study reveals that Leeds, despite having a buoyant commercial economy driven by retail and service sector growth, has been detrimentally impacted by BRRS as backdated appeals have outweighed uplift in business rates income. Fundamentally BRRS is not a “one size fits all” model – it results in winners and losers – which will be exacerbated if local authorities get to keep 100 per cent of their business rates from 2020. Research limitations/implications LAs’ income is more volatile as a consequence of both the rates retention and appeals liability aspects of BRRS and will become more so with the move to 100 per cent retention and liability. Practical implications Such volatility impairs the ability of local authorities to invest in growth at the same time as providing front line services over the medium term – precisely the opposite of what BRRS was intended to do. It also incentivises the construction of new floorspace, which generates risks overbuilding and exacerbating over-supply. Originality/value The research reveals the significant impact of appeals liability on LAs’ business rates revenues which will be compounded with the move to a fiscally neutral business rates system and 100 per cent business rates retention by 2020.
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Colaço, Rui, and João de Abreu e Silva. "Commercial Classification and Location Modelling: Integrating Different Perspectives on Commercial Location and Structure." Land 10, no. 6 (May 28, 2021): 567. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10060567.
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Commercial classification is essential to describe and compare the spatial patterns of commercial activity. Most classification systems consider a large set of dimensions that include detailed features such as store ownership or development type. Since new business models are continually being developed, the need to revise classification systems is constant. This makes generalisation hard, thus hindering the comparison of commercial structures in different places and periods. Recent studies have focused on cluster analysis and a smaller number of variables to gain insights into commercial structures, directly addressing this issue. Systematic bottom-up classification generates comparable structures, which is essential to contrast policy results in different situations. Furthermore, since form or accessibility are usually considered in classifications, cluster membership is precluded from most retail location models, often relying on the latter as an explanatory variable. Hence, a new classification system is proposed, based on cluster analysis (k-means) and a minimal set of variables: density, diversity, and clustering. This classification was implemented in 1995, 2002, and 2010 in Lisbon. Cross-sectional analysis of the commercial structures shows the system accurately describes commercial location and change, suggesting it can be generalised as a classification system. Since the minimal dataset also allows for cluster membership to be used on location models, the relationship between commercial classification and location modelling could be strengthened, reinforcing the role of commercial studies in urban planning and policymaking.
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Siddique, C. M. "Impediments to market orientation." Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues 7, no. 1 (May 6, 2014): 33–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ebs-03-2013-0007.
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Purpose – This study was undertaken to explore obstacles to market orientation in the retail small- and medium-sized retail enterprises (SME) sector of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a rapidly growing economy in the Gulf region. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The study used a triangulation data collection approach, including a case study, participant observation, and a questionnaire-based survey. Five research hypotheses were developed on context-specific impediments to market orientation, identified by means of in-depth interviews with owners/operators of SMEs, their channel partners and customers, and were tested with survey data. Findings – The study revealed a weak market orientation among UAE-based retail SMEs. An undifferentiated competition, limited resource infrastructure, and a short-term planning horizon occurred as the major impediments to the development and implementation of a market orientation. SMEs that preferred to maintain the status quo, and those who perceived UAE ' s commercial environment as lenient and pro-business, also expressed a lack of interest in the marketing concept and market orientation as a competitive strategy. Research limitations/implications – The study supports the contention that social-structural conditions and business practices can create formidable barriers to a market orientation in emerging markets. The findings call for shifting the current research focus from intra-organizational antecedents of market orientation to context-specific factors that may impede or facilitate market orientation. Originality/value – The study unravels a unique set of impediments to market orientation in UAE ' s retail sector and thus contributes to the ongoing interest of marketing scholars in expanding the range of possible antecedents of a market orientation. The findings of this study should be of special interest to foreign business firms aspiring to enter the growing retail sector of UAE and other emerging markets in the Gulf region.
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Prieto-Gonzalez, Mayelin. "ADA: Isolated Bouts of Depression Do Not Qualify as a Disability." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 31, no. 1 (2003): 165–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2003.tb00073.x.
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In Ogborn v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local No. 881, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that while major depression can constitute a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), isolated bouts of depression do not. Furthermore, the court held that an employee's firing after taking medical leave for depression does not violate the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), where evidence shows that the employee would have been fired for poor performance even if he had not taken the leave.Alleging that he was fired in violation of the ADA and the FMLA, Jerry Ogborn sued his former employer, Local 881 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, as well as the union's vice president. Beginning in 1980, Ogborn worked as a business agent for the union, which represents members employed primarily in the retail grocery industry. Ogborn's duties consisted of visiting retail grocery stores employing workers represented by the union, meeting with members about working conditions, and filing and processing members’ grievances.
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Vdovin, A. "Russian-Chinese Banking Cooperation." World Economy and International Relations, no. 6 (2015): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2015-6-28-38.
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The article considers current status and trends of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the banking sector. Firstly, it examines scope of activities and main results of specialized inter-state mechanism of deepening inter-bank cooperation between Russia and China. Secondly, a detailed analysis of Chinese banking institutions’ operations in the Russian market is given. The author points out that until now the main reasons for the Chinese banks’ activities in the Russian market have political nature while purely commercial considerations are of secondary importance. The client base mainly consists of Chinese companies and enterprises doing their business in Russia. The revenues of Chinese banks here are primarily generated by interest income. Chinese banks demonstrate low-key approach to searching of new and expansion of existing areas of their business. There is no evidence of major expansion in investment and lending to local businesses, deepening work in the retail sector, etc. Chinese banks retain limited geographical presence in Russia. Thirdly, the scope and trends of Russian banks’ activities in China are analyzed. The author explains extremely weak presence of Russian banks in China (including Hong Kong) and lack of dynamism in their operations in the local market. The key problems are singled out. Mostly, they are determined by the specifics of the Chinese banking sector functioning. In particular, tangible complexity persists in attracting funding from Chinese banks. The documentary operations (letters of credit, factoring) are not yet actively used in the work with the Chinese market. The commercial incentives to work with China remain small for the Russian banks. A general conclusion is drawn that in short term one should not expect any serious penetration of Russian banks into the PRC.
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Ahmad, Mir Rouf, and Rameez Raja. "Employee Job Satisfaction and Business Performance: The Mediating Role of Organizational Commitment." Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective 25, no. 2 (February 19, 2021): 168–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972262920985949.
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Purpose: The aim of this research article is to scrutinize the influence of employee job satisfaction on organizational commitment and business performance in the context of retail banking sector in northern India. Design/methodology/approach: A research design of quantitative in nature was used via a structured questionnaire on a sample of 440 Indian commercial bank employees. Research hypotheses were tested by using the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique to evaluate and test the proposed model. Findings: The result of the present study confirms that all facets of job satisfaction affect the satisfaction of employees significantly and, thus, influence the employee’s organizational commitment and business performance, respectively. The significance of the indirect path of employee job satisfaction on business performance through organizational commitment has also been tested with the Sobel test, which exhibited significant results. Research implications: This study provides insight into the influence of employee job satisfaction on the organizational commitment and business performance in the Indian commercial banking context in particular, which could benefit management and policymakers as well as other enterprises operating in the same segment. The results suggest that employee job satisfaction strongly contributes to employees’ organizational commitment and business performance. Therefore, organizations require that their employees must be contented and pleased with what they do. Originality/value: This research study contributes one more brick to the existing body of knowledge by investigating the casual relation of employee job satisfaction, and organizational commitment as a mediator with business performance, as these causal relations with business performance are very scarce in the context of commercial banking context. Research limitations: This research survey was restricted to commercial banks operating only in northern India. Thus, it limits the generalizability of the results for the context specified only.
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Ermolenko, O. M. "THE VECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARKET OF BANK CARDS AT THE PRESENT STAGE." Scientific bulletin of the Southern Institute of Management, no. 2 (June 30, 2016): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31775/2305-3100-2016-2-28-33.
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In the process of activation calculations there is a rapid development of payment systems adapted to the realities of the Russian economy. Plastic cards are popular and convenient tools of calculations, therefore prospects of development of retail payments market without the participation of plastic cards will not be considered. The article presents data that define the level of development of the market of retail payments by using plastic cards and considered the main prospects for further development of this business, which is important overlaps with the adaptation of the Russian payment system. The problems facing Russian banks are closely linked to the level of innovative capacity and commitment of commercial banks to use modern technology calculations in customer service. All this, ultimately, is the priority factor in the development of the market of Bank cards
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Valchuk, P. A., A. V. Bespalykh, and S. S. Kivi. "DYNAMICALLYDEVELOPINGMARKETS:OUTLOOKOFCURRENTTRENDSANDIMPLICATIONSFORBUSINESSPROCESSES." EurasianUnionScientists 1, no. 5(74) (June 14, 2020): 6–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.31618/esu.2413-9335.2020.1.74.732.
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The effectiveness of commercial activities of trade enterprises, level of competitiveness and cost assets are largely determined by the effectiveness of business processes which correspond to the development of market in its dynamics. Object of the research is the dynamically developing markets and sectors in modern realities. Subject is the analysis and evaluation of promising niches towards increasing the retail industry competitiveness in a contemporary world performance. In the research, the authors scrutinize dynamically developing businesses’ concept and its types, then consider digital industry as most fast-growing marketplace, the third implications were gathered from public relations sector within the blueprint of corporate social responsibility practices and social investment notion as being another angle ofpromoting company’s vision. Also, the authors admit, the integration of corporations into global economic agenda implies the compliance of business practices of domestic companies with international requirements and standards, which to a large extent poses an effect of increasing their competitiveness.
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Del Castillo Puente, Angel Maria, and Alejandro De Pablo Carrera. "Religion and companies: the keys for doing business in the Islam." Journal of the Sociology and Theory of Religion 9 (January 20, 2020): 16–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/jstr.0.2020.16-31.
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The aim of this research has been to analyze empirically the internal demand and its future evolution, as well as whether and how the Spanish retailers are currently satisfying the needs of Muslim residents in Spain. There are numerous articles about the great market potential Halal as the result of growth of the Muslim population and the expected future growth of the population. These studies in Spain are based on the great potential of Spanish manufacturers to increase their sales through exports, finance and tourism. Once reviewed the existing bibliography, we have not found any research that covers our topic. It will bring managerial implications in the areas of innovation, production, distribution and marketing that will guide and orientate the decisions thatmanufactures, distributors, commercial managers or other operators can make in the retail market.
This research has also identified an interesting opportunity in adapting retailer’s assortment to a segment of the population that is increasingly concerned by Halal products in each act of consumption. The main retailers Mercadona, Carrefour, Dia and Auchan, should include products with the Halal Guarantee to identify products that satisfy the requirements of the Halal Guarantee Islamic Law.
This paper has been organized as follows: First, we explain the retail market in Spain. Second, we extrapolate population and consumption to 2050. Later we explain the methodology and results. And, after summarizing the conclusions, we discuss the limitations. Lastly, we present future lines of research.
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Duhan, Punita, and Anurag Singh. "M Commerce: Experiencing the Phygital Retail." Global Journal of Enterprise Information System 9, no. 1 (May 5, 2017): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.18311/gjeis/2017/15877.
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Emergence and evolution of information technologies paved way for the online transactions, termed as e-commerce. E-commerce was soon rechristened as wired e-commerce due to the rapid rise of mobile phone and other handheld devices facilitating access to internet while on the go and this led to the coining of the term m-commerce, the wireless avatar of e-commerce. Term Mobile commerce or simply m-commerce has been attributed to the collection of location based commercial services that are delivered by various internet enabled handheld devices such as mobile phones, tablets and palmtop devices. Though, essentially, both-e-commerce and m-commerce- are similar as the transactions are electronic in nature and are facilitated by internet but the element of mobility is one big differentiator between the two. Now, it has become difficult for the people to imagine e-commerce without the mobility dimension appended to it. In today’s online business environment, m-commerce is growing as next stage of e-commerce. Further, M-commerce has opened up new vistas for marketing the products, for targeting the customers at multiple points, for offering customized services using location based features and for enabling enhanced shopping and service experiences. It also offers opportunities for services that are more efficient and more user-friendly. The marketers may also offer new approaches, apps, and in-store solutions for enhanced customer engagement after researching the needs, roles and use contexts of the customers. Marketers have already started talking about mobile conversion funnel besides desktop conversion funnel. It is quite interesting to note that in mature markets, shape of the funnel is different and has higher purchase conversion rate.
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Ke, Qiulin, and Wencan Wang. "The factors that determine shopping centre rent in Wuhan, China." Journal of Property Investment & Finance 34, no. 2 (March 7, 2016): 172–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpif-04-2015-0021.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that affect the retail rent of shopping centres in Wuhan, an important city in central China. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a data set of 68 shopping centres in urban Wuhan. A regression model is constructed to estimate the impact on retail rent of a composite range of variables that would capture the physical characteristics, spatial characteristics, potential attractiveness of shopping centres and market condition. Findings – The empirical findings suggest the ceiling height, closeness to metro line station, being situated in commercial central area, vacancy rate and income have significant impact on rental level. Unexpected, the retail mix has a significant negative impact on rent. The impact of the more determining factors found in Western research – size, age, parking space and anchor tenant – is not supported in the Wuhan study. Practical implications – While 68 shopping centres are included in the test, the sample size is relatively small. The comparatively short history of retail market in Wuhan would not allow to test the rent adjustment process. Originality/value – This is the first paper to investigate retail rent determinants in a second-tier city in China. The results of the study give designers, developers and investors critical insights into the determinants of retail rent in an emerging market.
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Colwell, Peter F., and Catherine Jackson. "Modelling rental change across key retail investment markets in Britain." Journal of Property Investment & Finance 22, no. 5 (October 1, 2004): 354–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14635780410556861.
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Models of the commercial property market have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. However, the retail sector and, more specifically, analysis of retail markets at the local level, have been comparatively neglected. This paper makes inroads into this gap in property research. Retail rental change at the local level is explored, focusing on consumer expenditure as the key determinant of change. The appropriateness of proxy variables is investigated and the mechanisms of rental change are examined. This highlights issues and difficulties unique to local level analysis. Following this, the relationship between rental change and underlying changes in consumer expenditure is investigated. The stability of a panel model of rental change is examined, with differences in market functioning identified across diverse groups of key local retail investment markets. These differences highlight the re‐emergence of northern markets during both the economic decline and recovery phases of the last decade of the 20th century. Rental levels in larger and smaller markets are also seen to respond to changes in consumer expenditure to significantly different degrees, in periods of both decline and recovery.
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Greenhalgh, Paul, Helen King, Kevin Muldoon-Smith, Adejimi Adebayo, and Josephine Ellis. "Using GIS to Explore the Potential of Business Rating Data to Analyse Stock and Value Change for Land Administration: A Case Study of York." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 5 (May 12, 2020): 321. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9050321.
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This study explores the potential of GIS to map and analyse the distribution, stock and value of commercial and industrial property using rating data compiled for the purposes of charging business rates taxation on all non-residential property in the UK. Rating data from 2010, 2017 and 2019, comprising over 6000 property units in the City of York, were filtered and classified by retail, office and industrial use, before geocoding by post code. Nominal rateable values and floor areas for all premises were aggregated in 100 m diameter hexagonal grid and average rateable value calculated to reveal changes in the distribution and value of all employment floorspace in the City over the last decade. Temporospatial analysis revealed polarisation of York’s retail property market between the historic city centre and out-of-town locations. Segmenting traditional retail from food and drink premises revealed growth in the latter has mitigated the hollowing out of the city core. This study is significant in developing a replicable and efficient method of using GIS, using a nationally available rating dataset, to represent changes in the quantum, spatial distribution and relative value of employment floorspace over time to inform local and national land administration, spatial planning and economic development policy making.
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Smits, Florence, and Alain Metton. "Aménagement commercial et développement durable : une difficile alliance à Louqsor ? (Retail business and sustainable development : the example of Luxor)." Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français 84, no. 4 (2007): 399–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/bagf.2007.2579.
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