Managing Retail Consumption

<i>Managing Retail Consumption</i> locates retailing in its social context and develops the position that retailing can be regarded as a site of consumption, identity creation and pleasure.  It develops a consumption perspective, which provides a balanced approach between management and the social sciences.  The consumption perspective considers the way retail sites are created or manipulated with a view to understanding the interplay between the provider’s requirements and the consumer’s ability to manage, structure and edit their repertoire of responses.