This article analyses the development of the institutional environment that has shaped the structure of the German grocery retail industry. In the institutional domain of corporate governance, retailers' cooperatives as well as various obscure corporate forms dominate. Urban and spatial planning...

This is the 100th issue of the IMB Working Papers. It contains three short papers on the series itself. The first paper takes stock of the history, content and relevance of the IMB Working Paper Series. It analyses the first 100 issues of the series in detail (Dörrenbächer in this volume, pp....