Benchmarking Retail Productivity Considering Retail Pricing and Format Strategy

Journal of Retailing

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-14

  Gauri, Dinesh K ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Efficiency; Retail formats; Retailing; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873568763     PISSN: 00224359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jretai.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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