Im westdeutschen Buchhandel haben in den letzten Jahren große Veränderungen stattgefunden. Neben einer Vielzahl von kleinen Buchhandlungen sind in sehr guten Geschäftslagen Buchkaufhäuser entstanden, die auf einer Verkaufsfläche von mehreren tausend Quadratmetern über 100 000 verschiedene...

With more and more retailers claimed their strategic layout of Omni-channel retailing, and the model of offline to mobile regarded as a shortcut to carry it out. In this paper, we construct a consumer choice model in which both the risk of direct marketing channel and the searching cost of the...

Click-and-mortar is a business model in which companies supplement their physical outlet with an online channel. Channel integration makes it possible for companies to access synergies that may be unavailable to companies that separate these channels into distinct entities. However, a review of...

A crucial question in a supply chain is whether to construct an internet channel in addition to a traditional retail channel. Despite many studies on this issue, little attention has been paid to optimal investment timing for developing the internet channel. To address this gap in the...

The framework for channel integration in international market has steadily evolved over time since late 1980s in response to new theoretical and empirical developments. By providing a comprehensive review of channel integration studies, we present a conceptual framework with an attempt to...

The aim of the paper was to investigate the interplay among a wide range of work characteristics and knowledge workers’ performance outcomes. Specifically, we examined the nature of relationships between various task-, knowledge- and social characteristics of work design and both task and...