Innovation and Dynamics in Japanese Retailing: From Techniques to Formats to Systems

ISBN-13: 9781403911285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 275 str.

Hendrik Meyer-Ohle

Opis

Japanese retailing has long been regarded as traditional or even backwards, when in reality it has constantly demonstrated its innovativeness and dynamism. This book highlights these developments by looking at: innovations and underlying driving forces; responses of Japanese retailers to deregulation; increasing competition; changes in consumer behaviour; and internationalization during the 1990s. All of these factors are analyzed through a thorough investigation of innovative activity from the 1950s onwards.

Spis treści

PART I: INTRODUCTION Innovation and Dynamics In Retailing PART II: FROM TECHNIQUES TO FORMATS (1950s-1980s) New Techniques and the Emergence of the General Merchandising Store Policy: A New Law for Large Stores Diversification of Retail Formats PART III: DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS (1990s) The 1990s: A Radically Different Environment Changes in Retail Formats in a Deregulated Environment Newcomers in Japanese Retailing Failure and Reorganization of the Mass Merchandising Sector Building Supply Chains Convenience Stores and the Organization of E-Commerce PART IV: CONCLUSIONS Half a Century of Dynamics in Japanese Retailing

O autorze

HENDRIK MEYER-OHLE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore. Before joining the department in 1999 he worked for five years for the German Institute for Japanese studies in Tokyo. Besides his long-standing research interests in Japanese retailing he is also researching strategies of Japanese companies in Asia and was the editor (with Jochen Legewie) of Corporate Strategies for Southeast Asia after the Crisis: A Comparison of Multinational Firms from Japan and Europe.