Mit der Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, den Zusammenhängen von Biographie- und individuellen Lernprozessen nachzugehen. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel von acht ostdeutschen ExistenzgründerInnen, die sich nach der Wende in den neuen Bundesländern im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel selbständig gemacht...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption to the global economy and world trade, with production and consumption falling dramatically in many economic. Organizations around the world have responded in many ways, from implementing working from home and restricting non-essential...

Digital transformation (DT) is a change in the business model of the company by applying new digital technologies. New digital technologies related to the application of automation, robotics, artificial intelligence and contemporary information and communication technology (ICT). The consequence...

Este trabajo propone un método para ajustar los datos atípicos en modelos vectoriales autorregresivos estimados con técnicas bayesianas (BVAR) que supone reescalar por magnitudes diferentes la varianza de los errores de la forma reducida. Se utiliza este método para documentar varios hechos...

Grocery shopping is an essential and routine activity. Although long regarded the responsibility of the female spouse, modern social and demographic shifts are causing men to become more engaged in this task. This is the first study to analyse gender differences with respect to the criterion of...

Family grocery shopping is the accepted domain of women; however, modern social and demographic movements challenge traditional gender roles with in the family structure. Men now engage in grocery shopping more freely and frequently, yet the essence of male shopping behaviour and beliefs present...

Retail productivity measurement has commonly used ratios of outputs, such as sales, and input factors like capital and labour to measure different facets of productivity. However, these store-specific ratios are also likely to be influenced by other context-specific factors affecting the...

This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect foodretailers’ market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chaindeviate from the pricing behaviour that exists under perfect competition. A methodproposed by Roeger (1995) is used to...