Many online-first retailers have adopted omnichannel strategies to expand their territories from online to offline. In this paper, we seek to understand the function of offline showroom for multi-category online retailing platforms, which is relatively understudied. Using detailed...

The rise of super-centers and the entry of Wal-Mart into food retailing have dramatically altered the competitive environment in the industry. This paper explores the impact of such changes on the labor market practices of traditional food retailers. We use longitudinal data on workers and firms...

The impact that the retail format has on the level of individual motivation tends to be overlooked in discussions of the determinants of organic consumption, this neglect due to the tendency to model individual and contextual factors separately. Hence, the dominant research paradigm has...