Professor Andrew Alexander
University of Surrey
Professor, Business & Management
United Kingdom
My co-authors include
Professor Harmen Oppewal
Professor Christoph Teller
My Publications
Cadbury and the rise of the supermarket: innovation in marketing 1953–1975
Business History
November 2017
Sleeping with the enemy for the greater good
Industrial Marketing Management
January 2016
Decision-making authority in British supermarket chains
Business History
February 2015
Store Managers – The Seismographs in Shopping Centres
European Journal of Marketing
November 2014
Helping Yourself
Cultural and Social History
September 2011
Past, present and future directions in the study of the history of retailing
Journal of Historical Research in Marketing
August 2010
Consumer Behaviour and the Life Course: Shopper Reactions to Self-Service Grocery Shops...
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
June 2010
The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain
June 2009
Retail Innovation and Shopping Practices: Consumers' Reactions to Self-Service Retailing
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
September 2008
Format development and retail change: supermarket retailing and the London Co-operative...
Business History
June 2008
Location planning in charity retailing
International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management
June 2008
Ethnicity and Consumption
Journal of Consumer Culture
March 2008
British co-operative societies as retail innovators: Interpreting the early stages of t...
Business History
January 2008
Rediscovering consumer‐producer involvement
European Journal of Marketing
November 2006
Consumer perceptions of corporate social responsibility in town shopping centres and th...
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
July 2006
Interlocking directorates and the knowledge transfer of supermarket retail techniques f...
The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research
July 2006
‘Fair play for the small man’: Perspectives on the contribution of the independent shop...
Business History
January 2006
Consumer Misbehavior: The Rise of Self-Service Grocery Retailing and Shoplifting in the...
Journal of Macromarketing
June 2005
An Efficient Pursuit? Independent Shopkeeping in 1930s Britain
Enterprise & Society
June 2005
Promoting Retail Innovation: Knowledge Flows during the Emergence of Self-Service and S...
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
May 2005
Selling Self-Service and the Supermarket: The Americanisation of Food Retailing in Brit...
Business History
October 2004
Food access and dietary variety among older people
International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management
February 2004
Retailing and consumption: evidence from war time Britain
The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research
January 2002
The Evolving Culture of Retailer Regulation and the Failure of the ‘Balfour Bill’ in In...
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
November 2000
Reasons for retailers’ involvement in town centre management
International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management
September 2000
Banks, grocers and the changing retailing of financial services in Britain
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
July 2000
Retailers’ financial support for town centre management
International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management
August 1999
Action and reaction: competition and the multiple retailer in 1930s Britain
The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research
January 1999
Structural and Spatial Trends in British Retailing: The Importance of Firm-Level Studies
Business History
October 1998
Town centre management in the UK: A review, synthesis and research agenda
The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research
January 1998
Following the script: Optical Character Recognition Technology and the British Town and...
History and Computing
October 1997
Strategy and strategists: evidence from an early retail revolution in Britain
The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research
January 1997
