Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-93).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991.

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by Wong Chin-nang, Yan Man-fai, Yen Sui-chi. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves [29]-[31] / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Summary --- p.5 / Chapter II. --- GROWTH POTENTIAL OF CONVENIENCE STORE --- p.6 / Degree of Market Saturation --- p.6 / Summary --- p.8 / Chapter III. --- CONVENIENCE STORE 一 EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN THE RETAIL BUSINESS --- p.9 / "Traditional Stores, Supermarkets and Convenience Stores" --- p.9 / Life Cycle of Retailing Institutions --- p.11 / Dalrymple's Theory on Retail Outlets --- p.11 / Economic Growth and Convenience Stores --- p.12 / Summary --- p.12 / Chapter IV. --- GROWTH AND EXPANSION --- p.14 / Internal Development --- p.15 / Acquisition --- p.16 / Joint Development --- p.18 / Joint Ventures --- p.19 / Franchising --- p.19 / Licensing --- p.19 / Agents --- p.20 / Internal Reorganization --- p.20 / Summary --- p.20 / Chapter V. --- FRANCHISING --- p.22 / Definition of Franchising --- p.22 / Overview of Franchising --- p.24 / United States --- p.24 / United Kingdom --- p.25 / Australia --- p.25 / Growth and Expansion through Franchising --- p.26 / Advantages --- p.26 / Disadvantages --- p.27 / Future Development of Franchising --- p.27 / Summary --- p.29 / Chapter VI. --- CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOUR SURVEY --- p.30 / Proposition --- p.31 / Demographic Factors --- p.31 / Preference of Various Retail Outlets --- p.31 / Retail Outlet Choice --- p.32 / Survey Objective --- p.33 / Methodology --- p.33 / Sampling Design and Coverage --- p.33 / Data Analysis Method --- p.34 / Results and Analysis --- p.34 / Result Summary --- p.34 / Detail Result Analysis --- p.35 / Transaction Amount --- p.35 / Shopping Frequency --- p.35 / Items Purchased --- p.35 / Salient Factor for Retail Outlet Selection --- p.36 / Discussion and Implication --- p.37 / Limitation and Restriction --- p.38 / Sampling Error --- p.38 / Summary --- p.39 / Chapter VII. --- SURVEY ON ACCEPTANCE OF FRANCHISING --- p.40 / Proposition --- p.40 / Attitude Towards Franchising --- p.40 / Monetary Reward as Motivation Factor --- p.41 / Non-monetary Reward as Motivation Factor --- p.41 / Survey Objective --- p.42 / Survey Methodology --- p.42 / Coverage and Sampling Design --- p.42 / Survey Method --- p.43 / Survey Findings --- p.43 / Attitude Towards Franchising --- p.43 / Monetary Reward as Motivation Factor --- p.45 / Non-monetary Reward as Motivation Factor --- p.46 / Limitation of the Research --- p.48 / Sample Error --- p.48 / Sample Size --- p.49 / Summary --- p.49 / Chapter VIII. --- IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.50 / Implications of the Two Surveys --- p.50 / Recommendations --- p.51 / Change People's Attitude on Franchising --- p.51 / Appeal to Younger Generation --- p.51 / Search for Other Potential Franchisees --- p.52 / Internal Development --- p.53 / Summary --- p.53 / Chapter IX. --- CONCLUSION --- p.54 / APPENDIX / TABLE / FIGURES / BIBLIOGRAPHY

M.Com. (Business Management) / With the coming of deregulation, many service station operators and oil companies have had high expectations from convenience stores. They saw it as an extra revenue stream. The reality is proving much tougher. To be successful one has to have the right location, external image and internal layout. Unfortunately very few oil companies went about setting up their convenience store franchises in accordance with franchise disciplines in the first place. Many of them insufficiently developed their pilot operations and set up as many shops in as short a time as possible, with proliferation of their convenience stores as the driving force. The idea at the time was to capture as big a share of the market as was possible, before competition moved in. In many of these stores there was a lack of research into the target market, there was insufficient training and information for the dealers/operators and product range was haphazard. These problems themselves were exacerbated as the number of stores grew. The objective of this study is to analyse TOTAL's convenience store location decision making process, external image and internal layout.

Modern storage systems are designed to manage data without considering the dynamicity of user or resource requirements. This design approach does not consider the complexities of the dynamically changing runtime application behaviors as well as the unique features of underlying resources. To this end, this dissertation studies how resource and functional partitioning strategies can improve efficiency and flexibility of object stores. This dissertation presents a series of practical and efficient techniques, algorithms, and optimizations to realize efficient and flexible object stores. The experimental evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of our design choices and strategies to make object stores flexible and resource-aware. / Ph. D.