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Personality Typologies of the Retail Service Innovator
Stuart Van AukenIntroduction The fact that innovativeness is not a generalised across‐product category phenomenon serves to open it to individual market analysis. Consider, for example, that the…
Centralisation of Inventories and the “Square Root Law”
D.H. MaisterIntroduction The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effect on inventory levels of centralisation, i.e., moving from a logistics system formed from a number of field…
Inventory Problems in Public Sector Enterprises in India
P. GopalakrishnanIntroduction This research project was undertaken to gain an insight into the problem areas of the public sector manufacturing companies in various materials management functions…
A Generalised Distribution Model and its Applications
Arunachalam RavindranIntroduction In this paper, a generalised distribution problem is considered which differs from the classical transportation problem in the following respects:
Supplier Environment of Food Retailers in a Developing Economy
Erdener KaynakFrequently distribution planners when looking at distributive channels and institutions in countries other than their own are confronted with considerable contrasts to their own…
Innovation in Retailing: —the mechanism and determinants of innovation and its influence on retail and commercial institutional change
R.J. EllisThe author of this paper was concerned in predicting the retail structure of accessories in the motor trade. In this research the fundamental importance of innovations was…
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