Chain Store Against Manufacturers: Regulation Can Mitigate Market Distortion

Author(s):  
Igor Bykadorov ◽  
Andrea Ellero ◽  
Stefania Funari ◽  
Sergey Kokovin ◽  
Marina Pudova
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
Jabbar Jabbar

The act of speculators distorting the market is quite unsettling. However, the Sharia texts show that this problem can be resolved using moral or akhlāqī. Then the question is whether the present government can overcome it by using qadā'īe imposing sanctions for distortion. Since the nature of Sharia is the universal and eternal, this issue must be answered comprehensively and holistically. For that reason, the maqāsid approach is operated with istislāhiyyah method. This method is also referred to as al-ijtihād al-maqās}idī which is done in two stages, namely takhrīj al-manāt and tahqīq al-manāt. It is believed that this method is quite relevant to answer two research questions. Firstly, how is maqās}id al-syar'ah in terms of market distortion? Secondly, does the government in syar'i be authorized to impose sanctions on the perpetrators of market distortion? The theory used to highlight this issue is the theory of al-wāzi' put forward by Ibn ‘Āsyūr. This conclu that the Sharia wants the circulation of goods in the market run smoothly. To that end, the government may impose sanctions if the distortion is done to the basic goods that can affect massively harm.


Author(s):  
Nguyen Thu Ha ◽  
Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen

The retail market in Vietnam continues to grow with the entry of foreign retail brands and the strong rise of domestic businesses in expanding distribution networks and conquering consumer confidence. The appearance of more retail brands has created a fiercely competitive market. Based on the outcomes of previous research results on brand choice intention combined with a customer survey, the paper proposes an analytical framework and scales to examine the relationship of five elements including store image, price perception, risk perception, brand attitudes, brand awareness and retail brand choice intention with a case study of the Hanoi-based Circle K convenience store chain. These five elements are the precondition for retail businesses to develop their brands so as to attract customers.


1932 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Dorothy Dowe
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2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 1498-1513
Author(s):  
Jingwei Han ◽  
Jianjun Miao ◽  
Gang Du ◽  
Dan Yan ◽  
Zhuang Miao

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Yan Liu ◽  
Bin Guo ◽  
Daqing Zhang ◽  
Djamal Zeghlache ◽  
Jingmin Chen ◽  
...  

Store site recommendation aims to predict the value of the store at candidate locations and then recommend the optimal location to the company for placing a new brick-and-mortar store. Most existing studies focus on learning machine learning or deep learning models based on large-scale training data of existing chain stores in the same city. However, the expansion of chain enterprises in new cities suffers from data scarcity issues, and these models do not work in the new city where no chain store has been placed (i.e., cold-start problem). In this article, we propose a unified approach for cold-start store site recommendation, Weighted Adversarial Network with Transferability weighting scheme (WANT), to transfer knowledge learned from a data-rich source city to a target city with no labeled data. In particular, to promote positive transfer, we develop a discriminator to diminish distribution discrepancy between source city and target city with different data distributions, which plays the minimax game with the feature extractor to learn transferable representations across cities by adversarial learning. In addition, to further reduce the risk of negative transfer, we design a transferability weighting scheme to quantify the transferability of examples in source city and reweight the contribution of relevant source examples to transfer useful knowledge. We validate WANT using a real-world dataset, and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model over several state-of-the-art baseline models.


1949 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-283
Author(s):  
LYLE E. CRAINE
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1934 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 205-207
Author(s):  
FREDERICK K. HARDY
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