Department Stores in Down State Illinois, 1889–1943
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9625405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wayland A Tonning (University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 335-349 |
| Publication date | 1955-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3111863 |
| OpenAlex | W1974335609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
Standing between expanding productive capacity on the one hand and growing consumer demand on the other, the marketing middleman in our economy has been forced into a succession of adaptive measures, significant among which has been department store retailing. A study of the general developmental pattern in down state Illinois reveals a “spawning era” and identifies three generic antecedents for the department store. Case studies of individual firms reveal the external underlying forces and the innovating policies which made the department store necessary and possible in this geographic area. Since by many criteria the small cities of Illinois were typical of those elsewhere, a study of retail developments there has more than regional implications
Business · Consumer demand · Ecological succession · Economics · Market economy · Retail sales · State (computer science · American History and Culture · Computer Science · Marketing · Wine Industry and Tourism
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2019 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |