Transnational retail, supply networks and the global economy

Journal of Economic Geography   Volume 7 Number 4 (July 2007)

The special issue will include contributions from leading researchers in economic geography, development studies, agricultural economics, and management studies including:

John Humphrey, Neil Coe and Neil Wrigley, Tom Reardon, Spencer Henson, and Julio Berdegue, John Dawson, Susan Christopherson, Yuko Aoyama, Alex Hughes, Martin Buttle, and Neil Wrigley, Mark Palmer

• The supermarket revolution in developing countries: tidal wave or tough competitive struggle?
• Host economy impacts of transnational retail: the research agenda
• Proactive fast-tracking diffusion of supermarkets in developing countries: implications for market institutions and trade
• Scoping and conceptualising retailer internationalisation
• Barriers to ‘US style' lean retailing: the case of Wal-Mart's failure in Germany
• Oligopoly and the structural paradox of retail TNCs: an assessment of
• Carrefour and Wal-Mart in Japan
• Organisational geographies of corporate responsibility: a UK-US comparison of retailers ethical trading initiatives
• Strategy as practice: interactive governance spaces and the corporatestrategies of retail transnationals

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