Retail Format Innovation amongst Clothing Specialty Retail Multiples and their Product Sourcing Network

• Project/Area Number: 24730365
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Commerce
• Research Institution: Aoyama Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: AZUMA Nobukazu 青山学院大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (70368554)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 流通 / 小売 / 専門店 / チェーンストア / 商品調達 / 衣料品 / SPA / 業態 / 商業 / 小売流通 / GPN / 流通課業環境 / 小売形態 / 小売フォーマット / 国際研究者交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The past couple of decades of Japanese retailing have observed a rapid growth of virtually integrated clothing specialist retail multiples. It has been marked as one of the phenomenon that have had substantial impacts upon the advance in Japanese retailing. Having such a trend as the background of the research, this study aimed at identifying the key environmental factors that may have played a considerable role in the formation and the sizeable growth thereafter of this particular retail type from a historical perspective, integrating four important schools of research approaches in this topic area. Upon the basis of this, it shed light on the increasing inter-type competition amongst the specialty store multiples. Market positions amongst these players have changed dramatically in Japanese retailing since the 1990s. It was revealed that one of the driving forces of the competitive advantage in this process is the effectiveness of retailers' inter-organisational sourcing networks.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 小売形態考 (2015)
  • Author(s): 東伸一
  • Journal Title: マーケティング・ジャーナル Volume: 35
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 小売フォーマットの有効性にかんする実証分析 (2015)
  • Author(s): 東伸一、山本宣明
  • Journal Title: 青山経営論集 Volume: 50
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] The Rise of Virtually Integrated Specialist Clothing Retail Multiples and the evolution process of Retail Format (2014)
  • Author(s): Nobukazu Azuma
  • Journal Title: 30th Sino-Japanese Modern Engineering and Technology Symposium (講演・論文集） Volume: 1 Pages: 1-13
• [Journal Article] The Rise of Virtually Integrated Specialist Clothing Retail Multiples and the evolution process of Retail Format (2013)
  • Author(s): 東伸一(Nobukazu Azuma)
  • Journal Title: 台日工程技術検討会(Proceedings) Volume: 1 Pages: 1-13
• [Journal Article] The Rise of Virtually Integrated Specialist Clothing Retail Multiples and Its Implications to Retail Internationalisation in Asia (2012)
  • Author(s): Nobukazu Azuma (東伸一）
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of SARD (Society for Asian Retail and Distributive Trades) 10th Workshop Volume: ―
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 流通における新たなビジネスモデルとオムニ・チャネル・リテイリング (2015)
  • Author(s): キムウノ、横山斉理、東伸一
  • Organizer: 日本マーケティング学会 オムニ・チャネル研究ワークショッップ
  • Place of Presentation: 青山学院大学青山キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-17
• [Presentation] 専門店の商品調達ネットワーク (2014)
  • Author(s): 東伸一
  • Organizer: 日本商業学会、日本経営史学会 関西合同部会
  • Place of Presentation: 同志社大学今出川キャンパス 京都府京都市
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-25
  • Invited
• [Presentation] サービスと流通について (2014)
  • Author(s): 東伸一
  • Organizer: 日本商業学会 関東部会定例研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 明治大学駿河台キャンパス 東京都千代田区
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-27
• [Presentation] 専門店チェーンにおける商品調達ネットワークと価値共創プロセスの史的考察 (2012)
  • Author(s): 東伸一
  • Organizer: 日本商業学会 第62回全国大会 統一論題「流通・チャネルにおける価値共創」
  • Place of Presentation: 北海商科大学
• [Presentation] The Rise of Virtually Integrated Specialist Clothing Retail Multiples and Its Implications to Retail Internationalisation in Asia (2012)
  • Author(s): Nobukazu Azuma (東伸一）
  • Organizer: SARD (Society for Asian Retail and Distributive Trades) 10th Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸流通科学大学
• [Presentation] 「国際商品調達経路の形成と専門店小売チェーンの店舗事業国際化についての研究」
  • Author(s): 東伸一
  • Organizer: 日本商業学会（関東部会10月定例研究会）
  • Place of Presentation: 中央大学後楽園キャンパス
• [Presentation] The Rise of Virtually Integrated Specialist Clothing Retail Multiples and the evolution process of Retail Format
  • Author(s): 東伸一
  • Organizer: 台日工程技術検討会
  • Place of Presentation: 台北市ー台湾
  • Invited
• [Book] 新・流通と商業 増補改訂版 (2015)
  • Author(s): 鈴木安昭、懸田豊、三村優美子、東伸一
  • Publisher: 有斐閣
• [Book] 崔容熏, 原頼利, 東伸一 (2014)
  • Author(s): はじめての流通
  • Total Pages: 272
  • Publisher: 有斐閣
• [Book] はじめての流通論 (2014)
  • Author(s): 崔容、原頼利、東伸一
  • Total Pages: 300
  • Publisher: 有斐閣