Between 1913 and 1926, the aged British commercial institution, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), built four monumental department stores across Western Canada in Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, and Winnipeg. In this thesis extensive archival research on the buildings and the HBC's architectural policies is analyzed within the contexts of Canadian social history, and of Company business history. The HBC was making new advances into the department store field, and the stores were clad in a standardized style intended to create a particular image of the Company in contrast to its competitors. Popular in Britain at the time, this Edwardian Classicism emphasized the HBC's history as the official representative of the British Empire across the hinterlands, a history largely defunct by the turn of the century. The opulent style also helped to establish the stores as key cultural institutions and as palaces of consumption. After World War One the HBC also began to stress its specific historical role in the Canadian fur trade and the settlemehtof the nation, through the use of various other architectural features such as the display windows, art galleries and museums set up inside the new stores, and by the historical sites of Company buildings. The competition between historical themes -British Imperial and Canadian frontierist- evidenced in the HBC department stores were tied to social factors. Demographic changes and nationalist sentiment after WWI forced the HBC to recognize Canada's particular pluralist society, and to mediate its image as a purely British organization. Many staff members and customers had no ties to the Company or the Empire, so the HBC invented a tradition that the public could relate to and participate in. The codification of a representational strategy was complicated by the differing agendas of the Company's London Board and its Canadian management. The study of architectural issues such as urban context, style, and building use establishes how the modern HBC employed history through modes of representation in the built environment, to justify its claims to the loyalty of a diverse population of workers and customers. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002. / Bibliography: leaves 390-407.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1934. / Vita. On cover: Columbia university. Bibliography: p. 122-123.

The study is limited to a survey of the gift-wrapping departments of selected stores in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Denton.

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The problem was to determine the significance of various relationships between job-performance ratings and selected factors associated with the college curricula of junior executive trainees. Job-performance ratings were made by personnel directors and immediate supervisors of college graduates enrolled as participants in junior executive training programs in department stores in Texas.

by Lau Pui-yin & Lee Hon-cheung. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-92). / ABSTRACT --- p.iv / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.viii / ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.ix / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Retailing Trend in China --- p.1 / Research Objectives --- p.4 / Chapter II. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.5 / Primary Research --- p.5 / Secondary Research --- p.7 / Chapter III. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.8 / Chapter IV. --- ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS --- p.13 / Political Environment --- p.13 / Historical Environment --- p.14 / Geographical Environment --- p.16 / Socio- cultural Environment --- p.17 / Regulatory Environment --- p.18 / Regulations for FIDSs --- p.18 / Tax regime for the FIDSs --- p.20 / Co-operative Joint Ventures Approved by the Municipal Government --- p.23 / Demographic Environment --- p.25 / Population --- p.25 / Working Population --- p.32 / Illiteracy Rate --- p.33 / Economic Environment --- p.34 / Economic Performance --- p.34 / Income Level and Living Standard --- p.36 / Market Potential --- p.39 / Infrastructural Environment --- p.45 / A Concluding Comment --- p.48 / Chapter V. --- INDUSTRY ANALYSIS --- p.49 / Supplier --- p.49 / Buyer --- p.55 / Substitute --- p.62 / New Entrants --- p.66 / Intensity of Rivalry among Existing Competitors --- p.70 / Chapter VI. --- INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS AND FUTURE TRENDS --- p.79 / Chapter VII. --- RESEARCH LIMITATIONS --- p.85 / Chapter VIII. --- FUTURE RESEARCH AREAS --- p.87 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.88

by Lum Yee Chung, Richard. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves 71-73. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / PREFACE --- p.ix / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Why Japanese Department Stores Came in the 1980s --- p.2 / Statement of Problem --- p.3 / Research Questions --- p.3 / Significance of Study --- p.5 / Limitations of Study --- p.5 / Summary --- p.6 / References --- p.7 / Chapter II. --- INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT --- p.8 / Introduction --- p.8 / Opinions by Department Store Practitioners --- p.8 / Store Categories --- p.9 / Market Environment of the Retail and Department Store Industry --- p.11 / Summary --- p.15 / References --- p.16 / Chapter III. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.17 / Introduction --- p.17 / Approach of Study --- p.17 / Questionnaire Design --- p.18 / Sampling and Data Collection --- p.22 / Summary --- p.23 / References --- p.24 / Chapter IV. --- RESEARCH FINDINGS --- p.25 / Introduction --- p.25 / Background Information of Respondents --- p.25 / Criteria for Shoppers to Choose Department Stores --- p.28 / Shoppers' Opinions on Japanese Department Stores --- p.32 / Store Categories that Respondents Shop Most Often --- p.35 / Effectiveness of Advertisement --- p.37 / Idea on Product to Buy and Amount to Spend Before Entering a Store --- p.39 / Importance of Product/Services Other Than Traditional Merchandise in Department Stores --- p.41 / "Importance of Price, Quality, Brand Name and Discount" --- p.42 / Main Strengths and Weaknesses of Japanese Stores --- p.45 / Identifying the Heavy Shoppers and their Characteristics --- p.48 / Summary --- p.52 / References --- p.54 / Chapter V. --- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.55 / Introduction --- p.55 / Conclusions --- p.55 / Recommendations for Japanese Stores --- p.55 / Recommendations for Local Stores --- p.59 / Future Direction --- p.62 / References --- p.63 / APPENDIXES --- p.64 / Chapter Appendix 1 : --- Questionnaire - Studies on Japanese Department Stores --- p.64 / Chapter Appendix 2 : --- Questionnaire - Consumer Survey --- p.68 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.71

by Kong Chi Ho, Wong Wan Sze. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / PREFACE --- p.iv / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Project Objectives --- p.2 / Chapter II. --- BACKGROUND INFORMATION --- p.3 / US Department Stores --- p.3 / Overseas Expansion --- p.4 / Domestic Market Situation --- p.6 / Retailing in the Asian-Pacific Region --- p.7 / Overseas Expansion of Asian Department Stores --- p.9 / Retailing in Hong Kong --- p.9 / Why is Hong Kong Considered as an Alternative --- p.11 / Chapter III. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.12 / Internationalisation of Retailing --- p.12 / Trends in the Retail Market --- p.15 / Store Preferences and Store Trends --- p.16 / Bibliography --- p.19 / Chapter IV. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.20 / Chapter V. --- RESEARCH FINDINGS --- p.23 / Customer Survey --- p.23 / Interpretation of Findings --- p.34 / Interviews with Department Store Personnel --- p.36 / Chapter VI. --- RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.48 / Selection Criteria --- p.48 / Type of Store --- p.50 / Discount Store --- p.51 / Specialty Department Store --- p.53 / Potential Problems --- p.57 / Chapter VII. --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.59 / APPENDICES --- p.61