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- Cochoy, Franck, 1964, et al.
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Price display technologies and price ceiling policies: governing prices in the WWII and postwar US economy (1940–1953)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Socio-Economic Review. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1475-1461 .- 1475-147X. ; 19:1, s. 133-156
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the politics and technologies of price fixing and price display in US grocery stores in the mid-20th century. Drawing on the literature on market devices and policy instruments, it complements previous studies focused on price setting processes by stressing the importance of price display. Through a systematic reading of the trade journal The Progressive Grocer, the article shows how displaying prices during World War II and the postwar inflation period combined the mastery of Government authorities at the federal level, and the expertise of retail professionals at the shelf level. It demonstrates that the regulation of prices is linked to mundane policies, technologies and practices, in particular the technique of ‘stereoscopic prices’ aimed at linking a reference price (the ceiling price set by the government) and the selling price (the actual price set by the retailer). Such technologies proved able to reinvent prices and price competition through their ‘bifurcated agency’, i.e. their propensity to both enact the scripts delegated to them (conveying price ceilings) and produce major side effects, like generalizing the practice of price display and linking prices to new values and qualitative dimensions of grocery products.
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- Cochoy, Franck, 1964, et al.
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The Tower of Labels: Labelling Goods in the US Grocery Store (1922–2018)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Labelling the Economy, Qualities and Values in Contemporary Markets. edited by B. Laurent and A. Mallard. - Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9789811514975 - 9789811514982 ; , s. 233-270
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While labelling is often conceived as an operation aimed at displaying the qualities of products, this chapter invites us to reflect on the labelling of prices. It proposes to study the technology as well as the micro-politics of price labelling in the long-term history of American grocery stores. The chapter relies on a study of the trade journal The Progressive Grocer from 1922 to 2016. It examines how various developments in labelling technologies, like sticker labels, price guns, printed price tags and UPC codes changed the division of labour between manufacturers and retailers in terms of product valuation and qualification and thus contributed to redefining not only the visibility of prices in market scenes and supply chains, but also the economics of the underlying qualities.
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- Guzman, Gustavo, et al.
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Introduction: Shifting perspectives on the organizing properties of space
- 2023
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Ingår i: Space and Organizing: On Spatial Agencing. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. - 978 1 80088 155 6 ; , s. 1-15
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This timely book explores how space emerges as people attempt to organize and reorganize their everyday activities. From the workplace to the internet, geographical districts to international development projects, it offers new insights on how created spaces enable further activities as the organizing process evolves. Expert contributors employ a poststructuralist perspective to look at the importance of agencing for understanding organizing within and among multifarious spaces. In turn this provides a means of explaining how organizing unfolds through combinations of spatio-material and agential practices. Extending this research by highlighting the agential dynamics of organizing in relation to space, this book unpacks the concept of agencing, before considering how relational approaches to space have influenced the idea of spatial agencing. Connecting the work of Michel Callon and Franck Cochoy, Space and Organizing joins a forward-thinking and ever-expanding body of research. As space and society are the result of diverse ongoing activities that enable further organizing to take place, the book concludes that we should abandon the idea of a given space that people inhabit and transform. This book offers a meaningful avenue to rethink how we interact with nature, distribute our activities, and organize our practices. Aimed at business and management researchers, PhD candidates and postgraduate students with a particular interest in organization studies and organizational behaviour, this book offers ways to engage with more positive routes of spatial agencing.
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- Hagberg, Johan, 1973, et al.
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The Role of Market Devices for Price and Loyalty Strategies in 20th Century U.S. Grocery Stores
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Macromarketing. - : SAGE Publications. - 0276-1467 .- 1552-6534. ; 40:2, s. 201-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the competitive dynamics of technical innovations and retailer strategies through a historical study of the role of market devices in contributing to price and loyalty competition strategies in the US grocery retail market during the 20th century. Our findings show that recurrent shifts between emphasizing price and using various customer loyalty arrangements were closely linked to, and supported by, the introduction of seemingly mundane technical devices. Our analysis of retailer competition incorporates the role of technical innovations as endogenous to retail dynamics, which is important to understand historical development, but also highly relevant for contemporary analyses given the current proliferation of digital devices within retailing.
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