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

Life after PPG6: recent UK food retailer responses to planning regulation tightening
Life after PPG6: recent UK food retailer responses to planning regulation tightening
Despite ever-tightening retail planning regulation in the UK, the leading food retailers have continued to add floor space 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.
regulation, food retail, ppg6, urban regeneration, convenience store retail, organizational adaptation
0959-3969
23-41
Wood, Steve
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Lowe, Michelle
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Wrigley, Neil
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Wood, Steve
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Lowe, Michelle
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Wrigley, Neil
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Wood, Steve, Lowe, Michelle and Wrigley, Neil (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. (doi:10.1080/09593960500453435).

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Despite ever-tightening retail planning regulation in the UK, the leading food retailers have continued to add floor space 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.

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Published date: February 2006
Keywords: regulation, food retail, ppg6, urban regeneration, convenience store retail, organizational adaptation

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Local EPrints ID: 54947
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/54947
ISSN: 0959-3969
PURE UUID: d72934d9-4e8d-48aa-8de6-6d85cf25a311
ORCID for Neil Wrigley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3967-5668

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Date deposited: 31 Jul 2008
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:38

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Author: Steve Wood
Author: Michelle Lowe
Author: Neil Wrigley ORCID iD

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