Innovations in retailing are characterised by, first, a hostile reaction from established organisations and, second, by a distinctive pattern of evolution. This article presents an integrated theory of retail change which is used to describe the development of the retail warehouse, one of the...

Initially dismissed as one among many intellectual fads, postmodernism now occupies a prominent position in all manner of academic disciplines. Although marketers have not been slow to board the postmodern bandwagon, the majority of analyses thus far have been preoccupied with the concept′s...

Three basic approaches to retail institutional change can be discerned in the last 30 years. The first contends that institutional evolution is a function of developments in the socio‐economic environment. The second argues that change occurs in a cyclical fashion. The third considers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the diversity of property investment in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The paper addresses how diversity and such factors as the country's history, government, different cultures, housing needs, vast rural areas, fast...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that have influenced the use of implicit (naïve) techniques in property portfolio diversification evaluation in the Nigeria property market. This is necessitated by the need to look at the ways by which the property portfolio...

Purpose – The purpose of paper is to show how the changing property investment landscape in the past 40 years – for example the new requirements of valuation accuracy, rationality and the risk analysis, etc. – requires a corresponding response from property valuers (academia, professionals...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the problems of compensation for compulsory acquisition of oil exploration fields in Delta State with particular reference to the oil field acquired by Agip Oil Company for gas pipeline way leave in Irri and Okpai towns of Delta State....

Purpose – The research in this paper is aimed at re‐engineering existing approaches to the analysis of proposed developments in local authorities – from land pricing to planning permission – hence reducing the loss of revenue in councils, and nurture property development....

Success in retailing depends heavily on location. Retailers do better if their shops/stores are situated adjacent to complementary or competitive establishments. This article presents the results of a survey of the micro‐locational perceptions of traders in the centre of a major British City.

Links the role of work study to TQM and argues that work study methods can play an integral part in TQM. Argues that many TQM programmes fail because they do not have measurement techniques in place which TQM requires on an ongoing basis. Suggests that work study methods provide ecessary tools...