Life after PPG6: recent UK food retailer responses to planning regulation tightening

Wood, S, Lowe, MS and Wrigley, N (2006) Life after PPG6: recent UK food retailer responses to planning regulation tightening International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 16 (1). 23 - 41. ISSN 0959-3969

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Abstract

Despite ever tightening retail planning regulation in the UK, the leading food retailers have continued to add floorspace in a remarkably consistent manner, progressively increasing their domination of the market. This paper examines the innovative responses of those firms to planning legislation – responses which have included: working within the constraints of that regulation; exposing and exploiting flaws in the legislation, and circumventing its impacts by expansion into more fragmented markets. Such responses, have in turn led to the further adaptation of planning regulation in order to close a series of loopholes that the leading food retailers have been quick to exploit to aid their expansion plans. The paper concludes by examining more broadly what these developments imply for organizational adaptation and corporate restructuring.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an electronic version of an article published in International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 16(1), 23-41 (2006). International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research is available online at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rirr20/16/1"</a>.
Divisions:	Faculty of Business, Economics and Law > Surrey Business School
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	03 May 2012 17:43
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2013 19:13
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/209765

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