Strategic assortment decisions in information-intensive and turbulent environments

Journal of Retailing

Volumn 87, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Dekimpe, Marnik G ^a,b   Gielens, Katrijn ^c   Raju, Jagmohan ^d   Thomas, Jacquelyn S ^e  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortment decisions; Hard discounters; Private labels; Retail formats

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960114582     PISSN: 00224359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jretai.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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