TY - GEN
T1 - Scale economies of retailing at store level
T2 - 2006 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM'06)
AU - Zhuang, Guijun
AU - Herndon, Neil C.
AU - Zhou, Nan
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to test the research proposition that the inconsistent findings existing in the literature on scale economies of retailing at store level are caused by the different approaches adopted. To do this, two approaches, the production function approach and the statistical cost approach, are used to analyze the same set of data. As expected these two methods produced somewhat contradictory results. Modifying the approaches by adding additional variables seems to resolve these contradictions and improve the explanatory power of the models. ©2006 IEEE.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to test the research proposition that the inconsistent findings existing in the literature on scale economies of retailing at store level are caused by the different approaches adopted. To do this, two approaches, the production function approach and the statistical cost approach, are used to analyze the same set of data. As expected these two methods produced somewhat contradictory results. Modifying the approaches by adding additional variables seems to resolve these contradictions and improve the explanatory power of the models. ©2006 IEEE.
KW - Department store1
KW - Economies of scale2
KW - Production function approach3
KW - Statistical cost approach4
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSSSM.2006.320525
DO - 10.1109/ICSSSM.2006.320525
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 1424404517
SN - 9781424404513
VL - 1
SP - 569
EP - 574
BT - Proceedings - ICSSSM'06: 2006 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management
Y2 - 25 October 2006 through 27 October 2006
ER -