International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management Special Issue: Commemorating the life and work of Professor Ross Davies, 1940-2005
ISBN: 978 1 84663 516 8
Guest Edited by: Jonathan Reynolds and Michelle Lowe
As founding Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Emeritus Professor of Templeton College, Oxford, Ross Davies (1940-2005) was one of the first entrepreneurial academics.
This Special Issue contains articles written by researchers and practitioners to mark his very special contribution to retailing. After a tribute to his life and career, three papers address retail regeneration and partnership issues and two examine complementary aspects of retail development.
Contents:
Guest editorial: commemorating the life and work of Ross Davies, 1940-2005
Provides a tribute to Ross Davies’ career as an academic and retail geographer, including his founding of OXIRM and ORG, his advisory work for the House of Commons Select Committee on the Environment, and his international interests.
Balance and partnership in retail planning
Sir Stuart Hampson, the former Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, writes of own involvement as a practitioner in issues of retail regeneration and outlines the extent of Ross Davies’ role and influence in the development of retail planning policy in the UK over the past 20 years.
The role of quarters in large city centres: a Mancunian case study
A paper on the exciting development of Manchester’s northern quarter as an idiosyncratic assembly of small-scale cultural industries and retailing activities, which builds upon Davies’ work in understanding the emerging structure and pattern of retailing.
Rethinking Southampton and town centre futures
Analyses the regeneration effects of central area development in Southampton and the significant and positive role which retailing plays in this process.
Perspectives on retail format innovation: relating theory and practice
This paper explores the extent to which retail regeneration is dependent upon innovation in retail formats in response to a changing business and consumer environment, and draws out longer term trends in the development of the sector.
New shopping centres: is leisure the answer?
Examines the emergence over the past 20 years of shopping centres that are increasingly orientated around leisure.
About the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management
As its title suggests, the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management offers genuinely global coverage of current practice, future trends and new developments and initiatives in a complex and challenging field. Detailed comparative studies from other countries allow you to appraise your own operations from a fresh angle. The latest research findings provide information for serious academics. As the journal is not allied to any retail or distribution organization, it has the freedom to bring critical perspectives to current ideas, and express objective opinions on key issues and controversial topics.
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