Books in the Handel und Internationales Marketing Retailing and International Marketing series

Due to industrialization, globalization, and digitalization food-related life is becoming increasingly complex. The abundance of (unhealthy) food, in particular, is causing an unprecedented over-consumption that endangers people's health, quality of life, productivity, and life expectancy.

A progress in technologies, the increasing expansion and use of digital environments lead to remarkable shifts of business activities. Thus, Frederic Nimmermann sheds light on consumer behavior in central subareas in digital environments such as advertising.

Matthias Schu examines three main topics in his research: The intention of store-based retail and wholesale companies to open up an own online channel, factors determining the foreign market selection behavior of online retailers as well as factors affecting the speed in the internationalization process of online retailers.

Julia Weindel provides novel implications for researchers and managers by first identifying the sector-specific main levers of retail brand equity. The retail brand represents a valuable asset for retailers which need to know the levers of retail brand equity.

Event marketing is a powerful tool of brand communication and used within many different fields. His research focusses around higher education marketing and event marketing in digital environments.

The study is based on theoretical and conceptional reflections on markets and market structures, the fundamentals of retail management and modern food retail, and research findings on supermarkets' structural impact on food retail markets in other country contexts.

She shows that retailer should focus on the interdependencies between major purchase channels and emphasizes the need to identify supportive stimuli and cues, such as integration services and online- and omni-channel-specific marketing instruments, to support such transfers and improve behavioral outcomes at the retailer and channel level.

Katja Wagner investigates consumer behavioral intention and interactions with new technologies and digital channels.

Andrea Schluter untersucht die Bedeutung strategischen und strukturellen Designs. Basierend auf Literaturrecherchen entwickelt die Autorin ein Modell, leitet Hypothesen ab und uberpruft diese anhand einer empirischen Studie.