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The Impact Of Change On The Irish Retail Environment, Edmund O'Callaghan, Mary Wilcox
The Impact Of Change On The Irish Retail Environment, Edmund O'Callaghan, Mary Wilcox
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The turbulence of environmental change is a constant challenge for the modern retailer. It acts as a Jeckyl and Hyde change agent in that it presents opportunities for the entrepreneurial firm or is ever threatening for the reactive enterprise. The law of natural selection which dictates that firms ‘adapt to this turbulence or die’, is a reality. The firm must work within parameters of ever increasing environmental change and its ability to anticipate this change becomes a prerequisite for survival. Mathur argues that markets are not a given, that it is firms which dictate the market environment through their generic …