International retailing in Japan

Larke, Roy

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“…Likewise, Larke (2003) noted that when Carrefour opened its first store in Tokyo suburb of Makuhari in December 2000, there was media frenzy, with 50,000 customers rushing to the store on the first two days of business. However domestic chains nearby, managed to undercut many of Carrefour's prices on the first day, effectively preventing customers from associating Carrefour with price competitiveness (Larke, 2003). On Carrefour's first anniversary in Japan, the store's atmosphere is described as "ghost town" in an early afternoon of the weekday, in spite of the ongoing anniversary sale (Asano, 2002, p. 36, cited in Aoyama, 2007.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It follows that foreign retailers have difficulty in understanding and accurately interpreting the host UNDERSTANDING FAILURE IN INTERNATIONAL RETAILING 191 institutional legitimacy requirements of a country due to cross-national dissimilarities in regulative, normative, and cognitive norms of retailing, and so receive negative media coverage in foreign countries entered (Coe & Lee, 2006;Larke, 2003). Public/community/media pressure is reflected in the number of negative media articles and press media about the transnational retailer in the media.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The German press refers to "the Wal-Mart Myth", critiquing the assumptions that Wal-Mart style logistics applications could transform German retailing (Christopherson, 2007). Likewise, Larke (2003) stated that Wal-Mart's entry in Japan was met with negative press coverage and criticism of the firm's practices and strategies by the press and academic experts. According to Larke (2003) when Carrefour opened its first store in Japan in December 2000, perhaps partly because of its record breaking start, with 50,000 customers during the first two days, journalistic coverage has been disdainful and almost generally condemning, including a significant amount of outright propaganda.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Likewise, Larke (2003) stated that Wal-Mart's entry in Japan was met with negative press coverage and criticism of the firm's practices and strategies by the press and academic experts. According to Larke (2003) when Carrefour opened its first store in Japan in December 2000, perhaps partly because of its record breaking start, with 50,000 customers during the first two days, journalistic coverage has been disdainful and almost generally condemning, including a significant amount of outright propaganda. Empirical evidence shows that negative public opinion and the presentation of this opinion by the media hurts retailers' legitimacy in foreign markets (Christopherson, 2007;Coe & Lee, 2006;Larke, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding Failure in International Retailing: An Institutional Framework for Future Investigation

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Aklamanu²

2014

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The move from domestic market to one that includes major international firms is not proving an easy task for retailers. Whiles prior research acknowledged differences between country environments and stressed the importance of addressing these differences in order to avoid the dangers and failures inherent in internationalisation, there is still lack of suitable framework that captures the effects of the institutional environment on failure in international retailing. The purpose of this paper is to introduce institutional theory as a complementary framework to explain failure in international retailing and suggest propositions for further research. The paper seeks to answer the research question: What are the factors in the institutional environment of a host country that affect failure in international retailing? Consequently, the objective of this paper is threefold: (1) to introduce institutional theory as alternative theoretical framework to conceptualise failure in international retailing; (2) to identify institutional factors that exert pressures on the operational activities of international retailers in foreign markets and which leads to failure; (3) to provide some research propositions for further investigation. This paper offers several contributions. First, we extend current theories in international business, particularly, the literature on retail internationalisation and institutional theory by exploring pressures and difficulties that international retailers face in a new host institutional environment. Second, we identify a set of institutional factors that exert pressures on international retailers in foreign markets that lead to failure. Finally, with the institutional approach, this study fills the gap in earlier works by developing a complementary framework along with 11 propositions for future research.One major limitation of this paper is that it is conceptual; hence, further empirical analysis is needed to test the suggested propositions.

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Section: Normative Pillarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Normative Pillarmentioning

confidence: 99%