This article reviews retail change in Europe over the past 20 years. The sociocultural context
of retailing in Europe is briefly discussed before macro level changes in the relative scale of …

Der Handel ist in Bewegung: Es entstehen neue Betriebsformen, Vertikalisten konkurrieren
mit klassischen Handelsorganisationen, elektronische und stationäre Kanäle werden in …

Purpose–Traditional market selection analysis relies on purely macroeconomic and political
factors and fails to account for an emerging market's dynamism and future potential. The …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between foreign market
entry modes and hard‐and soft‐service firms. The paper investigated which foreign market …

Supermarkets have spread extremely rapidly in developing countries after the 'take-off'in the
early to mid-1990s. Former analyses of supermarket diffusion have not adequately …

During the 1990s transition period in Central and Eastern Europe, the retail sector was
privatised and some domestic‐capital supermarket chains gradually emerged. Massive …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the effect of the current financial
crisis on corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and CSR assurance strategies that …

This paper adopts a qualitative, case study approach to examine the market and partner
selection processes of retailers operating internationally via franchising. Despite the …

Foreign divestment research has focused on identifying divestment drivers but has only
rarely investigated the long-term divestment behavior of companies. This study uses …

Whilst retail internationalization practice has a long history, academic research into retail
internationalization is a more recent phenomenon. We argue in this paper that our …