Hypermarket Competition and the Diffusion of Retail Checkout Barcode Scanning
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- Jonathan Beck & Michal Grajek & Christian Wey, 2005. "Hypermarket Competition and the Diffusion of Retail Checkout Barcode Scanning," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 523, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
- Wey, Christian & Beck, Jonathan & Grajek, Michal, 2005. "Hypermarket Competition and the Diffusion of Retail Checkout Barcode Scanning," CEPR Discussion Papers 5386, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
IT diffusion; retail competition; hypermarkets;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
- L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2005-11-19 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CSE-2005-11-19 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-ICT-2005-11-19 (Information and Communication Technologies)
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