The economic importance of retailing is constantly increasing, as can be seen from the
development of many countries across Europe, America and Asia. In highly developed …

Self‐esteem is an important motivational drive for consumption involving both the
acceptance and rejection/avoidance of symbolic goods. This paper examines the …

The focus of this research is the strategy of international format transfer by retailers into
developing countries. Transfer strategies are defined in terms of a format change pattern …

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 …

Retail internationalization has attracted much attention in recent years as the scale and
nature of the activity has changed. Most analysis of retail internationalization however is …

Most of us think we know something about retailing: we shop, we buy, we consume. But
retailing, perhaps more than any other economic sector, has been transformed …

This article contributes to the small but growing geographic literature on the
internationalization of retailing by exploring the strategic localization of transnational …

The relationship marketing paradigm has emerged as a major tool by which marketers may
examine and conceptualise relationships with consumers, however its application to the …

'Branding'is well known for consumer products but power has shifted from manufacturers'
brands towards retailers'. The term'image'is more common than'brand'in the context of …

Within economic geography, the internationalisation of retailing is a much understudied
element of contemporary globalisation processes. In this paper the author seeks to develop …