"This comprehensive Handbook provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on quantitative models for inventory … management. Despite over half a century's progress, inventory management remains a challenge, as evidenced by the recent Covid-19 … pandemic. With an expanse of world-renowned inventory scholars from major international research universities, this Handbook …

patterns to US merger policy in the retail context, the rise of the Internet, and consumer-to-consumer sales. The chapters … developments in technology, retail formats, and data availability. The book goes on to study the changes in online retailing and … 'big data', and to examine competition in specific retail sectors including gasoline stations, automobile dealerships …

the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalization of retailing. In addition to focusing on the retail … corporations and their expansionary strategies, it explores the multi-faceted impacts of retail globalization on host economies and … profiles the store and sourcing dimensions of transnational retail activity. These volumes are of particular interest to …

This book provides a uniform and coherent approach to the analysis of distribution systems in general and retail … systems in particular. It develops the fundamentals of retail demand and supply, and demonstrates how the provision of … distribution services is a principal determinant of economic outcomes in retail exchanges for both retailers and their customers …