Alec Davies, Les Dolega and Daniel Arribas-Bel
Twenty-first century online retailing has reshaped the retail landscape. Grocery shopping is emerging as the next fastest growing category in online retailing in the UK, having…
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Twenty-first century online retailing has reshaped the retail landscape. Grocery shopping is emerging as the next fastest growing category in online retailing in the UK, having implications for the channels we use to purchase goods. Using Sainsbury’s data, the authors create a bespoke set of grocery click&collect catchments. The resultant catchments allow an investigation of performance within the emerging channel of grocery click&collect. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
The spatial interaction method of “Huff gravity modeling” is applied in a semi-automated approach, used to calculate grocery click&collect catchments for 95 Sainsbury’s stores in England. The catchments allow investigation of the spatial variation and particularly rural-urban differences. Store and catchment characteristics are extracted and explored using ordinary least squares regression applied to investigate “demand per day” (a confidentiality transformed revenue value) as a function of competition, performance and geodemographic factors.
Findings
The findings show that rural stores exhibit a larger catchment extent for grocery click&collect when compared with urban stores. Linear regression finds store characteristics as having the greatest impact on demand per day, adhering to wider retail competition literature. Conclusions display a need for further investigation (e.g. quantifying loyalty).
Originality/value
New insights are contributed at a national level for grocery click&collect, as well as e-commerce, multichannel shopping and retail geography. Areas for further investigation are identified, particularly quantitatively capturing brand loyalty. The research has commercial impact as the catchments are being applied by Sainsbury’s to decide the next 100 stores and plan for the next five years of their grocery click&collect offering.
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To Russia with trade. Now that the alleged Russian spies have gone and relations between Britain and the Kremlin are gradually returning to what passes as normal, John Davies is…
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To Russia with trade. Now that the alleged Russian spies have gone and relations between Britain and the Kremlin are gradually returning to what passes as normal, John Davies is standing by for an invitation to Moscow. The Trade and Industry Secretary, with order forms in his briefcase, was due in the Soviet capital in January. But following the mass expulsions of Russians and their families by the Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas‐Home, the situation—to quote a DTI man—got a bit ‘saggy’. In retaliation, the Russians promptly cancelled plans for the second meeting of the Anglo‐Soviet joint commission on applied science, technology, and trade. Now the department is expecting an invitation any time to enable the meeting—the inaugural gathering was in London in January last year—to take place in the autumn, probably in October. The result, according to information flowing back from our men in the British Embassy in Moscow, could be a dramatic stepping up in Anglo‐Soviet trade for British manufacturers willing to plunge in to what the ministry stress is a tough market place (fainthearts should stop at home).
In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of…
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In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.
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Trude Klevan, Bengt Karlsson, Lydia Turner, Nigel Short and Alec Grant
The purpose of this paper is to explore how sharing stories of being a mental health professional and academic, based more broadly on serendipity and searching in life, can serve…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how sharing stories of being a mental health professional and academic, based more broadly on serendipity and searching in life, can serve as means for bridging and developing cross-cultural understandings and collaborative work.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is a relational autoethnography based on face-to-face and written conversational dialogue between five mental health academics from the UK and Norway.
Findings
The very practice of writing this paper displays and serves the purpose of bridging people, cultures and understandings, at several levels, in the facilitation of new research and writing projects. Troubling traditional boundaries between “us” and “them, and the “knower” and the “known,” the writing is theoretically underpinned by Friendship as Method, situated in a New Materialist context.
Originality/value
Through its conversational descriptions and explorations the paper shows how doing relational autoethnography can be purposeful in developing cross-cultural understandings and work at both professional and personal levels. It also demonstrates how autoethnography as relational practice can be useful in the sharing of this methodology between people who are more and less familiar with it.
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INDUSTRY CAN ONLY benefit from the efforts of Airey Neave, chairman of the powerful all‐party Select Committee on science and technology. Neave was one of the first prisoners of…
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INDUSTRY CAN ONLY benefit from the efforts of Airey Neave, chairman of the powerful all‐party Select Committee on science and technology. Neave was one of the first prisoners of war to escape from Colditz Castle. He strolled out dressed as a German officer. Now he is using his initiative to overcome a security problem of another kind—Whitehall's hidden secrets.
IT CAN STILL BE SAID, after forty‐eight years have passed, that ‘little has yet been written of the history of school libraries, for indeed the history is still in the making’…
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IT CAN STILL BE SAID, after forty‐eight years have passed, that ‘little has yet been written of the history of school libraries, for indeed the history is still in the making’. Progress in the provision of library services to schools has been slow and piece‐meal until recently, and Alec Ellis's contribution to the history of public library services to children in England and Wales is not yet complete. One must search inter alia to find other contributions to the history of this subject for the period since the First World War. To look at the past is not for the purpose of decrying the present in the manner of the ‘Black Papers’ on education, but to measure the extent and direction of change.
The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains…
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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.
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Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover…
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Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.
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The planning and provision of care for older people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities is an increasing challenge to traditional welfare systems. The…
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The planning and provision of care for older people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities is an increasing challenge to traditional welfare systems. The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of the newly implemented Care Act 2014 in England for developing an anti-discriminatory approach.
Design/methodology/approach
The review draws on existing research and conceptual literature to identify how key provisions of the new act can be interpreted in light of current knowledge.
Findings
Overall the provisions of the Care Act lend themselves well to positive interpretation in relation to the needs of older LGBT people and their support networks. A potential tension, however, arises in the locality focus of the legislation that could constrain good practice with geographically dispersed communities. There is also a need to challenge both heteronormative and ageist assumptions that lead to older LGBT people remaining unrecognised.
Practical implications
Applied with imagination and commitment, the provisions of the new act could enable new forms of person-centred care to emerge to support older LGBT people.
Social implications
Social workers are in a key position to influence how the Care Act is interpreted and applied in practice and can act as change agents for a societal move towards older LGBT people having greater choice and control over their well-being.
Originality/value
This review presents examples of how the provisions of the legislation can be utilised to support positive change for older LGBT people.
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