Retail Sector Books

New and Published Books

1. International Business in China

   Understanding the Global Economic Crisis

   Edited by Robert Taylor

   This book deals with a number of contentious issues in Chinese management as China emerges as a global economic player, with a greater role in international business during a global economic crisis. This step is in tandem with an economically driven foreign policy. Since the 1980s, Chinese...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Innovation and Learning Experiences in Rapidly Developing East Asia

   Edited by Rajah Rasiah, Thiruchelvam Kanagasundram, Keun Lee

   Technology and technical change is sector- and industry-specific, embedded by locational institutions and organizations, and integrated in global networks. It is non-linear in its emergence and movement, and subsumed in the nature of micro, meso and macro interactions. Using evolutionary theory and...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Business History and International Business

   Edited by Peter Buckley

   Business History and International Business are cognate subjects. There are few, if any, studies of international business that do not require a proper study of context. International business decision making must be made relevant by a considered evaluation of the circumstances surrounding that...

   Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Retailing Reader

   Edited by John Dawson, Anne Findlay, Leigh Sparks

   Most of us think we know something about retailing: we shop, we buy, we consume. But retailing, perhaps more than any other economic sector, has been transformed fundamentally over the last thirty years, both economically and culturally. Featuring work from seminal theorists in the area and...

   Published April 6th 2008 by Routledge
5. Retail Product Management

   Buying and Merchandising, 2nd Edition

   By Rosemary Varley

   Introducing students to the product management process, this revised and updated second edition gives an insight into the operations and practices used by retailers to achieve their product strategy objectives. Blending theoretical approaches from a number of management perspectives, including...

   Published December 18th 2005 by Routledge
6. Charity Shops

   Retailing, Consumption and Society

   By Suzanne Horne, Avril Maddrell

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   In the late 1990s, there was a distinct rise in interest in the non-profit sector, and in retailing and consumption. Drawing together these two concerns this book provides a comprehensive and international account of the retail charity sector. Charity shops are now significant...

   Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge
7. Retailing

   Critical Concepts

   Edited by Anne M. Findlay, Leigh Sparks

   The material included in this set draws on international sources from the 1950s to the present day, to provide an invaluable collection on retailing. The collection is arranged as follows: * Volume 1: The Evolution and Development of Retailing * Volume 2:The Environments for Retailing * Volume 3: (...

   Published October 10th 2001 by Routledge
8. Retail Impact Assessment

   A Guide to Best Practice

   By John England

   This book reviews the methodology and emphasises a recommended best practice approach to the application of retail impact assessment. It is a valuable guide for planners and surveyors, new and experienced professionals, and students studying retail planning....

   Published October 18th 2000 by Routledge
9. Flexible Working in Food Retailing

   A Comparison Between France, Germany, Great Britain and Japan

   Edited by Christophe Baret, Steffen Lehndorff, Leigh Sparks

   Series: Routledge Studies in Retailing

   This book makes use of a four country research programme, covering France, Germany, Great Britain and Japan. Investigations and interviews at store, company and individual levels paint a picture of working times in the sector and in each of the countries. The volume provides some explanations for...

   Published March 8th 2000 by Routledge
10. Information Technology, Organizations and People

    Transformations in the UK Retail Financial Services

    By Jeff Watkins

    Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

    This wide-ranging volume presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure, assesses their progress towards transformation and describes the changes they are making to long-established business process roles, cultures and working practices. The...

    Published April 29th 1998 by Routledge