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Innovation in retail internationalisation: Tesco in the USA
No full textThis paper examines the market entry of the UK’s largest retailer (Tesco) into the USA. Tesco’s launch of a new brand – Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets – in virgin territory is a bold move, notwithstanding the firm’s considerable success with its overseas investment strategy (which within ten years has resulted in more than 50% of the firm’s operating space being outside its ‘home’ market). The paper contextualises the study by taking a historical view of innovation in the retail industry, which reveals that generally - and certainly for the most part of the twentieth century – innovations have dominantly flowed from the US to the UK. The paper suggests that Tesco’s US experiment is unusual both in terms of the innovatory aspects of its market entry and the reversal in that conventional direction of knowledge transfer. The Fresh & Easy story is then examined in terms of ten ‘dimensions of innovation’ involved in the market entry. The paper concludes by drawing out from these ‘dimensions of innovation’ a number of important issues for management scholarship raised by the study, stressing the need to incorporate insights from a wider social science literature<br/
The globalization of trade in retail services - report commissioned by OECD trade policy linkages and services division for the OECD experts meeting on distribution services
No full textAims and Background: In this retail sector study commissioned by OECD to inform the expert meeting on distribution services to be held on November 17 2010, the aims are to:* explain how and why the retail sector has internationalised its operations over the past two decades and the characteristics of that process;* highlight current and potential future trends in the internationalisation of the sector;* consider how trade, investment and regulatory policy have shaped and continue to shape the international activities of retailers;* assess the importance of e-commerce in international retailing and any potential restrictions on its development;* assess policy areas and measures which might be included in the retail part of a services trade restrictiveness index (STRI)
Rethinking Southampton and town centre futures
No full textPurpose - Designed to update research work carried out in the early 2000s on the development and impacts of Southampton's West Quay retail development on the urban milieu of the city. Design/methodology/approach - Summarises the findings of detailed research work carried out at West Quay over a five year period. Findings - Suggests that developments that have taken place at West Quay have been overwhelmingly positive for the city and that, as such, the Southampton example supports the case for retail-led urban regeneration. Practical implications - Southampton's position - as one of the first cities in the UK to embark on a city centre retail-led regeneration scheme - finds it extremely well-placed to provide important lessons to other local authorities currently in the process of developing large-scale retail developments in their city centres. Originality/value - This paper updates a detailed study of the history and development of the West Quay retail scheme in the city of Southampton. It seeks to draw a series of wider conclusions from the case and is offered in the spirit of generating debate on this issue. <br/
Case study - Tesco: from domestic operator to multinational giant
No full textThis case considers the emergence of Tesco plc as one of the world’s leading multinational retailers. In a remarkable 10-year period, Tesco has transformed itself from a purely domestic operator to a multinational giant – with subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and North America – and in 2009 had 64 per cent of its operating space outside the UK. Examining market entry into Asia in more detail, the case compares ‘success’ in Thailand and South Korea with ‘failure’ in Taiwan. It also considers ‘a high risk gamble’ in Tesco’s entry into the US market, long considered to be a graveyard of overambitious expansion by UK retailer
Organizational identiy and capability development in internationalization: transference, splicing and enhanced imitation in Tesco’s US market entry
Full text linkEntry into international markets is a challenging process that fundamentally tests existing capabilities. During this entry process, capability gaps arise that need to be bridged to exploit the commercial opportunity and grow the business. Using a global retailer, Tesco plc, as a case study and employing grounded theory development techniques, we find that in order to achieve growth, two organizational attributes become critical—structural coherence of the firm’s capabilities and organizational identity. We identify three processes of capability development during market entry—transference, splicing, and enhanced imitation. Further, actions and processes that maintain or adapt organizational identity serve as a moderator of the relationship between these processes, capability deployment, and internalization necessary for entry into international markets. We discuss the study’s implications for theories of capability development, organizational identity, and foreign market entry
Commemorating the life and work of Professor Ross Davies, 1940-2005
No full textPurpose: to introduce a commemorative collection of articles by colleagues and former students of the late Professor Ross Davies, a leading UK academic in the field of retail management.Design/methodology/approach: outlines the development of Ross Davies' career and enumerates his particular contributions to the development of academic studies of retailing. Summarises the objectives of each paper in the collection.Findings: the paper identifies the link between the authors of papers and Professor Davies' work.Originality/value: demonstrates the ways in which an academic was able to relate sound scholarship to the practical needs of retailers, service companies and public sector agencie
The changing urban hierarchy in England and Wales, 1913-1998
No full textFollowing the earlier work of SMAILES, 1944, and SMITH, 1968, the changing urban hierarchy of England has been plotted for 1913, 1938, 1965 and 1998, using two alternative composite measures: an urban hierarchy embodying a number of different measures of urbanity; and a retail hierarchy based on department stores and multiples. The two sets of results differ somewhat in detail, but certain common trends are observable: notably, a north-south shift and a coastal-inland shift. Finally, an attempt is made to produce a composite hierarchy for the most important centres. These, the study concludes, have enhanced their position at the expense of smaller centres. <br/
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