Die Untersuchung stellt den Textileinzelhandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in tierfer Untergliederung im Rahmen seines Umfeldes das. Ziel der Darstellung ist die Erfassung der den Strukturwandel seit den siebziger Jahren dominierenden Entwicklungen.

A myriad opinions has been propounded to explain how“cyberspace” can be exploited by commercial organisations.For the most part they are speculative, visionary orpromotional. This work seeks to redress the balance byfocusing on the utilisation of the Internet within the UKretail sector and...

Probleme/Forschungsfragen:Ein stetiger Komplexitätsanstieg des Produktes und der Produktentwicklungsumgebung erschweren in Wertschöpfungspartnerschaften das Erreichen einer gemeinsamen Win-Win-Situation. Bei der frühen Erarbeitung der Produktauslegung oder im Rahmen der...

Die Relevanz der Konstruktionsweise von Gütern hat in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkte Beachtung in der ökonomischen Literatur gefunden. Insbesondere die Konsequenzen einer modularen Gestaltung von Produkten rückten dabei in den Vordergrund. Dabei wird meist davon ausgegangen, dass sich aus...

Achieving and sustaining competitive advantage is a major challenge for firms in today’s dynamic global marketplace. The notion of sustained competitive advantage has been investigated through a number of paradigms, from the resource based view of the firm to dynamic capabilities. This paper...

Functional Food emerged as a constant segment in the Europeanfood market and offer potential for product innovations which make themattractive for the food industry in nearly stagnating markets. Target groupresearch is one key factor for successful innovative food products. The aimof this...

Meeting the challenges of an unstable and unsettled environment is not easy. The recentimpacts on the hospitality services economy of changing technology, mergers of institutions,increasingly demanding consumers and increased competition have created an atmosphere ofvolatility and rapid change....

Product innovation has transformed the minds of business people because of its ability to increase productivity. Other than increased productivity it also allows companies to extend the range of the available products to consumers as well as lowering the prices consumers have to pay. Product...

Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...

The key objective of Part I is to synthesize 23 years of innovation research findings from economic, strategy, and marketing literatures and extend the current theoretical knowledge base in these domains through meta-analysis. In general, empirical evidence of the nature of the relationship...