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Strategies To Generate Innovation For Profit Gains Of U.S.-Based Global Retailing, Kazue Goto
Strategies To Generate Innovation For Profit Gains Of U.S.-Based Global Retailing, Kazue Goto
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Ineffective innovation strategies can negatively affect profit gains of U.S.-based global retailing companies (USGRC). Leaders in the retailing industry who fail to use strategies to generate innovation for profit gains can experience decreased profitability. Grounded in the dynamic theory of strategy, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies that leaders of USGRC use to generate innovation for profit gains. Participants included six USGRC leaders in California, who used strategies to generate innovation for profit gains. Data were collected from semistructured interviews, company documents and analyzed using thematic data analysis. Three themes emerged: customer-centric opportunity identification …