Linked trips and town centre viability (2009)
Wrigley, Neil, Lambiri, Dionysia, Cudworth, Katherine
There is a widespread consensus in the UK planning community that ‘linked trips’1 generated by large foodstores are potentially of critical importance to the viability and vitality of town...
In the context of a wave of retail foreign direct investment and increasing recognition across many disciplines of the profound developmental implications of transnational retail within the global...
Organizational challenges and strategic responses of retail TNCs in post-WTO-entry China (2009)
Tacconelli, Wance, Wrigley, Neil
In the context of a market characterized by the enduring legacy of socialism through governmental ownership of retail businesses, the continued presence of domestic retailers, and increasing levels...
Shifting global supply networks and fast fashion: made in Turkey for Marks & Spencer (2008)
Tokatli, Nebahat, Wrigley, Neil, Kizilgün, Ömür
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was noted that retailers in Britain had started providing increased variety and fashionability to their customers, had added mid-season purchasing to their...
Hughes, Alex, Wrigley, Neil, Buttle, Martin
This article presents a theoretically informed consideration of the role of ethical campaigning in shaping organizational practices of power and authority in global production networks (GPNs). It...
Hughes, Alex, Wrigley, Neil, Buttle, Martin
This article presents a theoretically informed consideration of the role of ethical campaigning in shaping organizational practices of power and authority in global production networks (GPNs). It...
Hughes, Alex, Buttle, Martin, Wrigley, Neil
Ethical trade, involving corporate codes of conduct for sites of production, has become a key means through which labour in retailers’ global supply chains is regulated. Yet, there is evidence to...
Host economy impacts of transnational retail: the research agenda (2007)
The last decade has witnessed an acceleration of retail foreign direct investment into a range of emerging markets across East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, led by a small...
Host economy impacts of transnational retail: the research agenda (2007)
The last decade has witnessed an acceleration of retail foreign direct investment into a range of emerging markets across East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, led by a small...
Hughes, Alex, Buttle, Martin, Wrigley, Neil
Ethical trade, involving corporate codes of conduct for sites of production, has become a key means through which labour in retailers’ global supply chains is regulated. Yet, there is evidence to...
Market power and regulation: the last great US department store consolidation? (2007)
Abstract: Purpose – To examine the impact of the merger of the two largest US department store companies on the competitive state of the sector and specifically the anti-trust implications of the...
Market power and regulation: the last great US department store consolidation? (2007)
Abstract: Purpose – To examine the impact of the merger of the two largest US department store companies on the competitive state of the sector and specifically the anti-trust implications of the...
This paper examines the organizational challenge of e-commerce for emerging retail transnational corporations (TNCs). The paper begins by scoping and conceptualizing the retail TNCs and in the...
Life after PPG6:recent UK food retailer responses to planning regulation tightening (2006)
Wood, Steve, Lowe, Michelle, Wrigley, Neil
Despite ever-tightening retail planning regulation in the UK, the leading food retailers have continued to add floor space in a remarkably consistent manner, progressively increasing their domination...
Networks of organisational learning and adaptation in retail TNCs (2004)
In this article we contribute to a growing body of literature concerned with the socio-cultural dynamics of learning and adaptation inside firms. Specifically, we apply a ‘competence-based’ view...
The Leeds ‘food deserts’ intervention study: what the focus groups reveal (2004)
Wrigley, Neil, Warm, Daniel.L., Margetts, Barrie.M., Lowe, Michelle.S.
This paper outlines the research agenda of the food deserts in British Cities project, and reports findings from a set of qualitative focus group studies conducted following a major retail provision...
Deprivation, diet, and food-retail access: findings from the Leeds 'food deserts' study (2003)
Wrigley, Neil, Warm, Daniel, Margetts, Barrie
Within a context of public policy debate in the United Kingdom on social exclusion, health inequalities, and food poverty, the metaphor of the 'food desert' caught the imagination of those involved...
A dramatic wave of consolidation swept through the US food retail industry during the late 1990s, transforming its corporate geography. This paper considers the causes of that consolidation wave,...
Life in a 'food desert' (2002)
Whelan, Amanda, Wrigley, Neil, Warm, Daniel, Cannings, Elizabeth
This paper forms part of the 'Food Deserts in British Cities' project. It reports on the findings of a series of focus groups conducted with residents in the Seacroft 'food desert' (in Leeds) in the...
Wrigley, Neil, Warm, Daniel, Margetts, Barrie, Whelan, Amanda
If poor food retail access in deprived areas of British cities is linked, as suggested in many of the policy debates of the late 1990s, via compromised diets/undernutrition to poor health and...
Papers published in Journal of Economic Geography
Categorical data, repeated-measurement research designs, and regional industrial surveys
Wrigley N. (1980) Categorical data, repeated-measurement research designs, and regional industrial surveys, Reg. Studies 14, 455--471. This paper shows that the sets of location factor questions...
Deprivation, diet, and food-retail access: findings from the Leeds 'food deserts' study
Neil Wrigley, Daniel Warm, Barrie Margetts
Within a context of public policy debate in the United Kingdom on social exclusion, health inequalities, and food poverty, the metaphor of the 'food desert' caught the imagination of those involved...
In the context of a wave of retail foreign direct investment and increasing recognition across many disciplines of the profound developmental implications of transnational retail within the global...
Neil Wrigley, Julia Branson, Andrew Murdock, Graham Clarke
The Competition Commission’s analysis in 2007 of entry and exit conditions among small stores across more than one thousand British high streets provided a landmark piece of research on a topic in...