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Part of the book series: Handel und Internationales Marketing Retailing and International Marketing (HIM)
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About this book
This explorative, primary data-based study provides findings on the first nearly two decades of the emerging supermarket industry in Bangladesh, in particular its capital city Dhaka. The objective is thereby twofold: On the one hand, the study traces the so-far development of supermarkets in Dhaka, and Bangladesh, and depicts current hindering factors to the local supermarket industry’s further development, as well as supermarket managers’ measures to tackle these challenges. On the other hand, the study explores the (potential) implications of emerging supermarkets for other food retailers on-site. To this end, the study’s focus lies on so-called wet markets (Bengali: kacha bazars) as an exemplary “traditional” food retail format. Here, the study strives for the determination of supermarkets’ competitive pressure on kacha bazars in Dhaka, and kacha bazar vendors’ corresponding (proactive) coping strategies. The study is based on theoretical and conceptional reflections on markets and market structures, the fundamentals of retail management and modern food retail, and research findings on supermarkets’ structural impact on food retail markets in other country contexts.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christine Hobelsberger is PhD candidate at the Department of Economics at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Her research interest lies at the nexus of corporate responsibility, the guiding principle of sustainable development, and development politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Restructuring of Food Retail Markets in Countries of the Global South
Book Subtitle: The Case of Emerging Supermarkets in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Authors: Christine Hobelsberger
Series Title: Handel und Internationales Marketing Retailing and International Marketing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33315-7
Publisher: Springer Gabler Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-33314-0Published: 08 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-33315-7Published: 07 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2626-3327
Series E-ISSN: 2626-3335
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 227
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, International Business, Industries