Smart Retail Settings
Introduction
Managing Consumers' Dynamics within the Emerging Smart Retail Settings, Special issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change; Deadline 28 Feb 2015
The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- understanding consumers behaviour within the new retail settings enriched with smart technologies
- evolution of consumers behaviour and shift from a traditional retail environment to a smart technology-based one
- changes in consumers’ dynamics concerning search, comparison, evaluation, consumption and post purchase behaviour, within the new technologies-mediated environment
- qualitative and quantitative approaches to assess the value of the new shopping experiences influenced by the new technologies
- strategic design and implementation of smart technologies for business value creation
- methods and evaluations of retailers’ capacity of absorb smart technologies
- sustainable evolution of retail practices according to the technology progress
Important Dates
- First Submission Date – 01 September 2015
- Submission closing date – 28 February 2016
- Acceptance due date – 30 April 2016
- Anticipated date of publication: December 2016
Manuscript submission and any inquiries should be sent by email to the Guest Co-Editors: Eleonora Pantano, Lecturer in Marketing, Middlesex University London, UK (e.pantano@mdx.ac.uk); Constantinos-Vasilios Priporas, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Middlesex University London, UK (c.priporas@mdx.ac.uk); Charles Dennis, Professor of Marketing and Retailing, Middlesex University London, UK (c.dennis@mdx.ac.uk).
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