Hypermarkets and the small retailers in Malaysia: Exploring retailers' competitive abilities

Journal of Asia-Pacific Business

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 329-343

  Roslin, Rosmimah Mohd ^a   Melewar, T C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypermarkets; Large scale retailing; Retail dominance; Retail strategy

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; RETAILING;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 67549099357     PISSN: 10599231     EISSN: 15286940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10599230802453596     Document Type: Article

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