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Griffith, Rachel; Harmgart, Heike - 2005

Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. Figure 1 shows an estimate of labour productivity in retail across countries, using output per hour worked. The UK lies well behind the US, France and Germany. Reynolds at al (2005) contribute to this debate by...

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Structural change and globalisation of the German retail industry

Wortmann, Michael - 2003

Das Papier gibt einen Überblick über Entwicklungstendenzen im deutschen Einzelhandel. Es beschreibt den Strukturwandel … der Handelsunternehmen: den Formatwandel der Betriebe, die vertikale Integration von Groß- und Einzelhandel sowie den … Bedeutungszunahme von Handelsmarken ausdrücken. Zugleich ist im Einzelhandel ein beschleunigter zweifacher Internationalisierungsprozess …

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The Impact of the Internet on Retail Competition: Evidence from Technological Differences in Internet Access

Gebhardt, Georg - 2010

Does the internet increase competition? To address this question, I exploit two institutional details unique to Germany: (1) Some municipalities received glass fibre cables that cannot be upgraded to DSL; I use these municipalities as a treatment group with reduced online competition. (2) German...

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Retail business staff scheduling under complex labor relations

Haase, Knut - 1999

The staff scheduling problem in the retail business is considered for which a new mathematical model and new solution methods are introduced. The problem is formalized as a set covering type problem. Columns represent feasible weekly working time patterns of one sales clerk. Rows correspond to...

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M&A, uncertainty, and bargaining power: Evidence from the German retail sector

Rebolledo, Mayra - 2020

Market concentration has been suggested as an enhancer of bargaining power imbalances for vertical commercial relationships. However, the empirical literature has not yet explored in which way this market concentration, as a result of -for instance- a M&A operations, could affect the...

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