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Spatial And Temporal Dimensions Of Entrepreneurial Activity In Uk Bookselling

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  • JULIE RATCLIFFE

    (Faculty of Management and Business, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)

  • GARY WARNABY

    (Faculty of Management and Business, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)

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This case considers entrepreneurial activity in the UK bookselling sector from the 1980s to the present. The early 1980s saw individual entrepreneurs within the UK bookselling sector having the entrepreneurial vision to develop new retail formats which have significantly altered the competitive landscape. The late 1980s/early 1990s saw the consolidation of these innovative retail formats and highlights the ways in which the 'rules of the game' have been significantly altered. The mid/late 1990s introduces the spatial element more overtly , outlining the development of book 'e-tailing' by a new breed of entrepreneurs. This has served to blur the traditional market boundaries, thereby facilitating the process of internationalisation. This process has taken two main forms: physical market entry, with particularly, US retailers grounding themselves in the UK through organic growth and/or acquisition; and the more intangible Internet presence, which has the potential to render traditional conceptualisation of this sector obsolete.

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  • Julie Ratcliffe & Gary Warnaby, 1999. "Spatial And Temporal Dimensions Of Entrepreneurial Activity In Uk Bookselling," Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 7(04), pages 389-405.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jecxxx:v:07:y:1999:i:04:n:s0218495899000236
    DOI: 10.1142/S0218495899000236
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