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Retail brand equity: a model based on its dimensions and effects
2013
International audience; Brand equity has been recognized as a key variable in both the academic and professional literature. This article aims to deepen the nature of the retailer equity construct and identify the variables that contribute to its formation, proposing an integrative model based on their dimensions and effects. From an empirical perspective, a survey is carried out with 300 consumers in three retailer categories, in order to analyze the relationships of the model. Due to the formative nature of two of the constructs, the analysis is developed through the partial least squares technique. From the analysis of the results, the importance of store image, perceived store value, an…
Joint Route Planning under Varying Market Conditions
2006
Purpose - To provide empirical evidence on the level of savings that can be attained by joint route planning and how these savings depend on specific market characteristics.Design/methodology/approach - Joint route planning is a measure that companies can take to decrease the costs of their distribution activities. Essentially, this can either be achieved through horizontal cooperation or through outsourcing distribution to a Logistics Service Provider.The synergy value is defined as the difference between distribution costs in the original situation where all entities perform their orders individually, and the costs of a system where all orders are collected and route schemes are set up si…
La influencia de Las TIC en la satisfacción del cliente en el comercio minorista
2009
Las ventajas que proporcionan las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) para las empresas, en términos de ahorro de costes y tiempo, han sido ampliamente reportadas en la literatura; no obstante, se ha prestado escasa atención a su influencia en la satisfacción del cliente. En este sentido, el artículo se plantea: ¿conviene a la empresa invertir lo máximo posible en tecnología o es mejor ajustar dicha inversión a lo estrictamente necesario? En el trabajo empírico realizado se observa la existencia de una relación positiva entre la percepción de intensidad de implantación de las TIC por parte del minorista y la satisfacción del cliente con dicha tecnología. Sin embargo, no to…
Mākslinieciskās izteiksmes līdzekļi mazumtirdzniecības nozares rakstos
2020
Šajā darbā tiek pētīta mākslinieciskās izteiksmes līdzekļu izmantošana mazumtirdzniecības nozares rakstos. Pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot, vai biznesa žurnāla Forbes autori, izskaidrojot vienu izplatītu mazumtirdzniecības tēmu, mēdz izmantot mākslinieciskās izteiksmes līdzekļus savos rakstos, kā arī atklāt galvenos mērķus mākslinieciskās izteiksmes līdzekļu izmantošanai tajos. Pētījuma metode bija diskursa analīze kopā ar biežuma analīzi, izmantojot kvalitatīvo pieeju, īstenojot Skrebņeva klasifikāciju (2003). Analīze parādīja, ka šajos rakstos tika izmantoti daudzi dažādi mākslinieciskās izteiksmes līdzekļi; atkārtošana un anafora bija kopīgas visiem rakstiem. Autori mēdz izmantot mākslinie…
Antecedents of Market Orientation in The Banking Sector During Its Digital Transformation
2019
Firms are under increasing pressure to remain relevant for their customers and need to rethink how to remain market-oriented in the digital age. This is evident in the banking sector where the traditional banks are gradually being challenged by digital native competitors and growing customer demands. Consequently, this study examines what it takes to be market oriented in the banking sector at the age of increasing digitalization. Specifically, we focus on developing the theory on the antecedents of MO and examine how banks can regain market orientation under changing market conditions. Although Market Orientation (MO) has been a widely studied concept that has been applied in numerous diff…
Recent Developments in the Finnish Banking Sector
2000
In this paper we discuss recent developments in the Finnish banking sector. Our specific aim is to examine whether and to what extent recent developments in Finland are broadly in line with the trends common to banking sectors in Europe and also worldwide. We focus on developments in banks' profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and the market structure of the banking sector. In addition, technological developments are surveyed. As regards consolidation, the Finnish banking sector is a trendsetter. The emphasis in structural development has moved to cross-border banking and bank assurance. On the other hand, it turns out that it is difficult to track some of the trends that are believed t…
Factores determinantes y consecuencias de la adopción del comercio electrónico B2C: una comparativa internacional
2012
Numerosas empresas minoristas han decidido crear tiendas virtuales como alternativa a la tienda física. El presente trabajo pretende analizar los factores que influyen en esta decisión estratégica y su impacto sobre los resultados del negocio entre los principales minoristas del Reino Unido, Francia y España. A partir de una regresión binaria y del análisis de la varianza, los resultados muestran que la adopción del comercio electrónico por el minorista es afectada por el tamaño de la empresa, el tipo de bien comercializado y el país donde se ubica el establecimiento. Asimismo, se observan diferencias significativas en términos de beneficio y rentabilidad entre los minoristas que han adopta…
Holes in the Dike: The Global Savings Glut, U.S. House Prices and the Long Shadow of Banking Deregulation
2016
We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2010. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior to the large net capital inflows into the US from China and other emerging economies. Our results suggest a long shadow of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more sensitive to capital inflows. We provide evidence that global imbalances were a major positive funding sh…
A simple operation strategy of battery storage systems under dynamic electricity pricing: An Italian case study for a medium-scale public facility
2014
In the electricity market, wholesale energy prices depend on the balance between energy production and load demand. In the last few years, electricity market has become more and more flexible as many utilities have started to replace the fixed retail prices schemes with prices changing during the day. Dynamic pricing, also known as Real-Time Pricing (RTP), reflects the trend of the wholesale market and allows to reduce the volatility of the wholesale prices, also contributing to a reduction of demand peaks. Electricity customers take advantage of dynamic pricing by shifting their consumption according to the real-time prices or by using Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) to shift electri…
Economic feasibility of a customer-side energy storage in the Italian electricity market
2015
Electricity prices show significant short-term variations during the day due to the need of balancing supply and demand in real time. Normally, customers are not exposed to these variations but pay a constant electricity price. In an attempt to reduce the volatility of the wholesale prices, several utilities are moving from conventional fixed-rate pricing schemes to new market-based models, where the electricity price can fluctuate during the day depending on the market conditions. Examples of time-dependent pricing schemes are Time-Of-Use (TOU) tariffs, where the electricity price can take two or three price levels during the day, or Real-Time Pricing (RTP) tariffs, where the energy price …