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posted on 2019-06-17, 11:13 authored by Lisa Qixun Siebers, Tao ZhangTao Zhang, Fei LiThrough exploring factors influencing effective retail positioning strategies in an emerging market environment, this paper challenges the role of isolation mechanism and heterogeneous idiosyncrasy argued by the resource-based view (RBV) theory. By drawing on a sample of 11,577 customers from hypermarkets, electronic appliance specialty stores and department stores in major Chinese cities, we set up 10 hypotheses and confirm a nine-item model for customer-oriented retail positioning (perceived price, store image, product, shopping environment, customer service, payment process, after-sales service, store policies and shopping convenience). Our results show that different retail formats achieve success through the implementation of similar positioning strategies, in which case, it is not heterogeneity but homogeneity that contributes to retailers' success greatly at the development stage of retail expansion. Our results challenge previously proved effectiveness of inimitability to success by the RBV, and support homogenous idiosyncrasy of retailers in the implementation of customer-oriented positioning strategies in an emerging market.
Funding
China Retail Research Centre, Tsinghua University, China (Grant ID 100004003).
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Journal of Strategic MarketingVolume
21Issue
7Pages
559 - 587Citation
SIEBERS, L.Q., ZHANG, T. and LI, F., 2013. Retail positioning through customer satisfaction: an alternative explanation to the resource-based view. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 21 (7), pp.559-587.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Strategic Marketing on 28 August 2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0965254X.2013.817478.ISSN
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