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Managerial Development in Retailing: The Department and the Chain Store, 1890-1940

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  • Perkins, J.
  • Meredith, D.

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Alfred Chandler has advanced the notion that afetr the First World War successful diversifying concerns shifted from centralised ("U" form) management structures to multi-divisional ("M" form) product-based organisation. Precisely the opposite occured in the retail sector, where the rate of growth of department store turnover - a form of retailing based on the "M" form of organisation - slowed considerably form the second decade of this century and that of chain stores - as examplars of the "U"form - expanded rapidly. Various factors contributed to this phenomenon. However, this paper argues that the distinctive forms of organisation of the two retailing concepts made a major contribution to the different experiences of the two forms of retailing in the interwar era.

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  • Perkins, J. & Meredith, D., 1996. "Managerial Development in Retailing: The Department and the Chain Store, 1890-1940," Papers 96/8, New South Wales - School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:nesowa:96/8
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    Keywords

    HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; RETAIL TRADE;

    JEL classification:

    • N77 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Africa; Oceania
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce

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