Business History ( IF 0.800 ) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 , DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2117299 Nicholas Alexander, Anne Marie Doherty
Abstract
The retail arcade was an innovative format that proliferated across the urban landscape in the late nineteenth century. However, it has attracted limited research attention from business historians. This article addresses this research gap by identifying the reasons for arcade development and the business relationships that enabled their widespread commercialisation. The retail arcade provided a thoroughfare between two centres of urban activity. The realisation of this transitional retail space required civic support and a commercial framework that facilitated the reification of experiential retailing. It provided financial rewards to multiple business interests whose complex relationships underpinned its operational characteristics. Britain provides the research context. Adopting an institutional logics theoretical perspective, this paper considers the interinstitutional shaping of this hybrid organisational form over more than half a century. A rare and rich source of archival material facilitates the study of quotidian activity within this innovative retail format.
中文翻译:
零售创新的跨机构塑造:十九世纪的零售商场
摘要
零售拱廊是一种创新的形式,在 19 世纪后期在城市景观中扩散开来。然而,它只引起了商业历史学家有限的研究关注。本文通过确定街机开发的原因以及促成其广泛商业化的业务关系来解决这一研究空白。零售商场在两个城市活动中心之间提供了一条通道。这种过渡性零售空间的实现需要公民支持和促进体验式零售具体化的商业框架。它为多个商业利益提供了经济回报,这些商业利益的复杂关系支撑了其运营特征。英国提供了研究背景。采用制度逻辑理论视角,本文考虑了半个多世纪以来这种混合组织形式的机构间塑造。稀有而丰富的档案材料来源有助于研究这种创新零售形式中的日常活动。