Aims and Background: In this retail sector study commissioned by OECD to inform the expert meeting on distribution services to be held on November 17 2010, the aims are to: * explain how and why the retail sector has internationalised its operations over the past two decades and the...

Purpose – To examine the impact of the merger of the two largest US department store companies on the competitive state of the sector and specifically the anti-trust implications of the consolidation. Design/methodology/approach – Based on semi-structured interviews with leading US...

At a time of increasing government concern with the economic health of UK town centres and high streets, and with an independent inquiry (led by Mary Portas) on Revitalising the High Street to report by the end of 2011, this paper seeks to make four contributions. First, to inject into an...

Contents:Volume IAcknowledgementsIntroduction Neil M. Coe and Neil WrigleyPART I RETAIL GLOBALIZATION: EARLY ASSESSMENTS 1. Alan Treadgold (1988), ‘Retailing without Frontiers: The Emergence of Transnational Retailers’2. Walter J. Salmon and André Tordjman (1989), ‘The...

In the context of a wave of retail foreign direct investment and increasing recognition acrossmany disciplines of the profound developmental implications of transnational retail within the globaleconomy, this paper examines the institutional and economic factors determining the performance...