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Innovation and Dynamics in Japanese Retailing

From Techniques to Formats to Systems

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Innovation and Dynamics in Retailing

      • Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
      Pages 3-14
  3. From Techniques to Formats (1950s–80s)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. Retail Policy: A Law for Large Stores

      • Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
      Pages 41-55
    3. Diversification of Retail Formats

      • Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
      Pages 56-96
  4. Development of Systems (1990s)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
    2. The 1990s: A Radically Different Environment

      • Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
      Pages 99-114
    3. Newcomers in Japanese Retailing

      • Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
      Pages 145-164
    4. Building Supply Chains

      • Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
      Pages 188-210
  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
    2. Half a Century of Dynamics in Japanese Retailing

      • Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
      Pages 229-239
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 240-275

About this book

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.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation and Dynamics in Japanese Retailing

  • Book Subtitle: From Techniques to Formats to Systems

  • Authors: Hendrik Meyer-Ohle

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510654

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1128-5Published: 19 August 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51062-7Published: 01 January 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51065-4Published: 19 August 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 275

  • Topics: International Business, Marketing, Management

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