Ten years after: The impact of German unification on retail pharmacies

International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 247-258

  Schmidt, Ruth ^a   Pioch, Elke A ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

East Germany; Grounded theory; Pharmaceuticals; Retail

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986065103     PISSN: 09590552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09590550110390904     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. ABDA (1999), Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Apothekerverbände, Jahresbericht 98/99.
2. Clarke-Hill, C.M., Robinson, T.M. and Foot, R. (1992), “West German retailing goes east”, International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, Vol. 20 No. 6, pp. 16-23.
3. Corporate Intelligence (1997), “OTC Pharmaceuticals in Germany”, Marketing in Europe, No. 415, June.
4. Corporate Intelligence on Retailing (1998), Marketing in Europe, No. 424, March.
5. FAZ, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1990), “Apotheker im Osten sollen zu ihren Einkaufspreisen verkaufen”, 24 December, p.9.
6. FAZ, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1991), “Drei Viertel der ostdeutschen Apotheken sind privatisiert”, 20 June, p. 16.
7. Handelsblatt (1991), “Neugründungen stoßen auf zahlreiche Schwierigkeiten”, 25/26 October, p. 20.
8. Jay, M. (1973), “The dialectical imagination”, Little Brown, Boston, MA. Cited in Murray, J.B. and Ozanne, J.L. (1991), “The critical imagination: Emancipatory interests in consumer research”, Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 18, September, pp. 129-44.
9. Meyer, G. (1992), “Retail development in East Germany: the example of the city of Jena”, International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Vol. 2 No 3, pp. 254-61.
10. Pioch, E.A. (1997), “The effects of the single European market on retail change processes in the European Union: an investigation of selected sectors and Member States”, unpublished PhD Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.
11. Pioch, E.A. and Schmidt, R.A. (2000), “Consumption and the retail change process – a comparative analysis of toy retailing in Italy and France”, The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 183-203.
12. Pioch, E.A., Davies, B.J. and Bennison, D. (1992), “Pharmacies: the SEM and retail harmonization”, International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, Vol. 20 No. 7, pp. 29-35.
13. Robinson, T., Foot, R. and Clarke-Hill, C.M. (1999), “Retailing in Germany eight years after the wall came down”, in Tenth International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades, conference proceedings, University of Stirling, Stirling, 26-28 August, pp. 114-22.
14. Spannagel, R. (1993), “Small and medium sized enterprises in retailing in Germany – strong in the west, weak in the east”, in Seventh International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades, conference proceedings, University of Stirling, Stirling, 6-8 September, pp. 584-90.
15. Strauss, A. and Corbin, J. (1990), Basics of Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques, Sage, London.
16. Strauss, A. and Corbin, J. (1994), “Grounded theory methodology, an overview”, in Denzin, N. and Lincoln, Y. (Eds), Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage, London.
17. Virnich, G. and Müser, M. (1991), “Analysis of retailing in Germany”, International Trends in Retailing, Vol. 8 No. 1, Andersen Consulting, pp. 5-25.
18. Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken (1999), “Apotheken – Auf einen Blick”, Branchen Special, No. 55, p. 5.
19. Woldt, F. (1992), “Retailing in East Germany”, International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, Vol. 20 No. 6, pp. 11-15.