Article ID: CBB429005129

Global and Local: Retail Transformation and the Department Store in Britain and Japan, 1900–1940 (Summer 2018)

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Department stores are often seen as transformative of both retail and wider social practices. This article offers a compara- tive analysis of department stores in early twentieth-century Britain and Japan to assess the extent to which there were uni- versal qualities defining the operation, practices, and experi- ence of department stores and to explore the ways in which they might be seen as transforming retailing in the two coun- tries. Despite similarities in their origin, organization, and service to customers, we highlight the greater diversity of British department stores and their incremental development. Japanese stores were a far more powerful force for change because they formed part of a concerted and conscious program of modernization.

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Authors & Contributors
Stadler, Christian
Parker, Traci
Whittington, Richard
Berghoff, Hartmut
Doherty, Anne Marie
Baden, Joel S.
Concepts
Business history
Modernization
Retail Trade
Comparison
World War II
Business enterprises
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Taisho period (Japan, 1912-1926)
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Japan
Germany
Europe
Canada
Institutions
Hobby Lobby (Firm)
W.H. Smith and Son
Tiffany and Company
Wal-Mart (Firm)
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
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