Retail formations
Tracing the Fluid Forms of an Online Retailer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2166090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johan Hagberg (0000-0002-4023-2741, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author), C Fuentes (0000-0001-6687-274X, Lund University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 423-444 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Consumption Markets & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1025-3866 • E-ISSN: 1477-223X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10253866.2018.1462168 |
| OpenAlex | W2801860528 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 57 |
Change has often been said to characterise retailing, and research on retail change is extensive. However, though much of that research has focused on retail formats, it has not sufficiently addressed the fluid nature of retailing and how its formats emerge. This paper offers a more dynamic conceptualisation of retail format change by introducing the concept of retail formation. Taking a constructivist market studies approach and drawing upon an ethnographic study of a Swedish consumer electronics retailer, the paper shows how retail formations are continually being made in a dynamic process that can be initiated by various actors, does not necessarily follow a logical order, and commonly produces unexpected results. The concept of retail formation allows us to better understand the increasing fluidity of retailing enabling us to trace complex market processes, examine multiple actors simultaneously, and taking into account the socio-historical and socio-cultural dynamics involved in shaping retail markets
Business · Commerce · Order (exchange · Process (computing · Retail industry · Retail market · Tracing · Computer Science · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Consumer Retail Behavior Studies · Service and Product Innovation · Marketing
Shaping technology/building society
Narratives in Social Science Research
Multiple versions of markets
Calculation, qualculation, calqulation
On the nature of markets and their practices
Shaping Exchanges, Performing Markets
Shadowing Software and Clinical Records
Doing Ethnographies
Ethnography
Reassembling the Social
The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation
Regions, Networks and Fluids
The Zimbabwe Bush Pump
The Sage Handbook of Marketing Theory
Devising Consumption
Constructing Sustainable Consumption
An Introduction to Market Devices
Peripheral Vision
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
Introduction
Consumption-Driven Market Emergence
Technology/Ideology
Local contexts as activation mechanisms of market development
From market agencements to market agencing
Concerning urban consumption
Revisiting marketization
The economy of qualities
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |