Reconsidering retailers' resilience and the city

A mixed method case study

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ID11454353
AuthorsSina Hardaker (0000-0002-8210-4107, University of Würzburg, corresponding author), Alexandra Appel (0000-0001-5689-6684, University of Würzburg), Sebastian Rauch (0000-0001-7472-4739, University of Würzburg)
Year2022
Volume128
Pages103796
Publication date2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0264-2751 • E-ISSN: 1873-6084
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.cities.2022.103796
OpenAlexW4283766946
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited37

This study aims to better understand retailers' resilience by conducting a micro-level analysis of retailers against the backdrop of the current Covid-19 crisis. Focusing on e-commerce strategies, the paper reveals that for a better understanding of retailer's resilience it proves helpful to analytically differentiate subjective and objective aspects that influence the personal ‘capacities to respond’, leading to more or less (pro)active reactions (absorptive, adaptive, transformative) to the crisis. This results in the differentiation of four broad response, respectively retailer types. As such, the paper contributes to existing research frameworks by providing analytical categories for defining subjective and objective aspects of resilience as well as by applying this framework to an empirical study on retailers (and urban) resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic. A mixed method approach is applied, which includes a survey as well as expert interviews with retailers located in the German city centre of Würzburg. For urban policy makers the results provide an opportunity to redefine retail policy frameworks contributing to retailers' and urban resilience alike

Business · Civil engineering · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Geography · German · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Urban planning · Urban resilience · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Engineering · Psychology · Regional resilience and development · Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management · Marketing

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