@article {Dawson:2005:0959-3969:401,
title = "The role of medium-sized firms in retail change in Japan",
journal = "The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/rirr",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2005",
volume = "15",
number = "4",
publication date ="2005-10-01T00:00:00",
pages = "401-422",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0959-3969",
eissn = "1466-4402",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rirr/2005/00000015/00000004/art00003",
doi = "doi:10.1080/09593960500197511",
keyword = "structural change, marketing strategy, localisation, Japan, retailing, innovation",
author = "Dawson, John and Larke, Roy",
abstract = "The processes and structures in the retail sector in Japan frequently are characterised as very traditional. Since the decade of slow growth in the 1990s a small group of medium-sized retail firms have adopted strategies that have allowed growth in sales and profit. These medium-sized firms, that are present in several sub-sectors of retailing, are becoming, through strategies focused on localisation and newness', the role models and catalysts for a more general change that is spreading through Japanese retailing.",
}