Despite rapid growth in the number of town centre management schemes in the UK there
have been few attempts to consider this topic from an academic perspective. This article …

Changing consumer trends, waves of retail decentralisation, and various socio-economic
and environmental shocks have exacerbated the well-recognised challenges of retail …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document the results and the impact of the ESRC-
funded High Street UK 2020 (HSUK2020), a project designed to take the existing academic …

This paper presents an extensive review of 20+ years of research on small, independent
retailers. For each of 134 articles, the focus, theory, analysis, methodology, and key findings …

This paper examines the growth and impact of power centres and “big-box” retailers through
the 1990s in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The data reveal that 72% of big boxes were …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide some insights for the evaluation of town
centre management (TCM) effectiveness, by proposing the importance‐performance …

The last ten years have witnessed the rapid expansion of town centre management (TCM)
schemes in the UK. In many TCM schemes the original 'janitorial'emphasis on improvements …

Purpose–To extend the research focuses of downtown business districts beyond the urban
planning literature through application of the resource‐based theory of the firm. Downtowns …

Building on an earlier publication in the International Journal of Retail & Distribution
Management, the following article investigates the reasons for retailers' involvement in town …

Town centre management as an activity has been in operation for over five years in the UK.
A postal survey of town centre managers and local planning officers in northwest England …