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International Corporate Brand Management
Marketers have to understand how the information that consumers associate with a company and its products affects their responses to those products. Adressing this issue, Markus Meierer analyzes firstly if consumers from Germany, France, Romania, Russia, and the USA perceive an internationally standardized corporate brand homogenously as well as if a positive effect on consumers' product response exists. Secondly he investigates if consumers perceive corporate and product brand as reciprocally related across countries as well as how the direct and indirect effects of corporate and product branding on consumers' product response look like.
The Replication of Retail Fashion Formats into Foreign Countries
Christoph Schröder does one of the first attempts to analyze format transfers within the scope of different strategies, format elements, countries and success with focus on the fashion industry. Three distinct format transfer strategies are identified. The empirically observed design of format elements supports and extends the existing research. Fashion firms standardize their “Retail culture”, which acts as a foundation for a successful format transfer strategy (core elements). New insights are provided with regard to format transfer into foreign countries as well as over a timeframe of five years. International retailers face specific challenges with regard to the decision on their retail format abroad, which is known as an important success driver. They may transfer their format elements unchanged or may adapt those elements. One successful strategy is known to be an unchanged format replication, which is linked to the fashion industry.
European Retail Research
The aim of EUROPEAN RETAIL RESEARCH is to publish interesting manuscripts of high quality and innovativeness with a focus on retail researchers, retail lecturers, retail students and retail executives. As it has always been, retail executives are part of the target group and the knowledge transfer between retail research and retail management remains a part of the publication’s concept. EUROPEAN RETAIL RESEARCH welcomes manuscripts on original theoretical or conceptual contributions as well as empirical research – based either on large-scale empirical data or on the case-study method. Following the state of the art in retail research, articles on any major issues that concern the general field of retailing and distribution are welcome.
International Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
With growing international business, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been faced with increased competition, but also with enhanced opportunities. Edith Olejnik addresses four major issues within the context of SMEs’ internationalization process: First, she identifies the three different internationalization patterns that SMEs take and analyzes how these patterns develop over time. Second, she looks at dynamic changes of foreign operation modes and the managerial reasons for these changes. Third, she derives an empirical classification of smaller family firms and profiles them using a comprehensive set of organizational variables. Fourth, she investigates the relationship between firm-level processes and dynamic capabilities in driving the international performance of SMEs. Based on theoretical considerations and empirical analyses this work provides important implications for research and management practice.
Retail Branding and Store Loyalty
Marketers and retailers have to understand how to manage different consumer perception levels of retail brands, which have a major determining role on store loyalty across different complex contexts. Addressing these issues, Bettina Berg analyzes first whether corporate reputation and retail store equity have a reciprocal relationship in determining store loyalty. Second, she evaluates whether retail brand equity or store accessibility provides a greater contribution to store loyalty across different local competitive situations. Third, she investigates whether perceptions of format specific core attributes differ in their impact on the brand building process in saturated and emerging markets.
Von WAHN und SINN - Behandler, Patienten und die Psychotherapie ihres Lebens
War es eine Deutung nach Sigmund Freud? Ein einzelnes Wort? Verändertes Verhalten? Die therapeutische Beziehung? Wie heilt man eine Depression, eine Angststörung, eine Psychose? Was entscheidet über Leben und Tod und wie wirkt Psychotherapie ganz genau? Das ist der rote Faden des Buches: Warum haben bestimmte Therapien geholfen und andere nicht. Warum gibt es Patienten, die sich nach einem Jahr Therapie das Leben nehmen? Spielen Altern und Erfahrung der Behandler hier eine Rolle? Oder Sprache und Geschlecht? Autorin Heide Fuhljahn, Fachjournalistin und selbst seelisch krank, erzählt die bewegendsten Sitzungen von Psychotherapeuten und Patienten. Im Anschluss an die persönlichen Erfahrungen fasst sie die jeweilige psychische Erkrankung und die durchgeführte Therapie fachlicher versiert, aber immer verständlich zusammen, um am Ende die Frage zu beantworten: Was hilft?
Retail Internationalization in Emerging Countries
The increasing internationalization of retail companies can emerge in the international retail brand management, a research gap. In the course of development that retailers will realize as a brand that always emergent research needs. This study shows how internationally operating trading company deal with these challenges, special services at the international level. These advantages are inter alia from differences in culturally influenced patterns of perception. A consideration of these differences implies a customized branding, which promises to enhance the efficiency of brand effects.
