英文摘要 |
One of the main operating concerns for large-scale multi-unit retail properties is effectively utilizing leasable floorspace, so as to maximize retail agglomeration economies. This agglomeration of various tenants in retail properties should be based on the core and periphery theory regarding spatial economies. Vendors generating increasing returns tended to be allotted more space, while retail and service providers generating constant returns were allotted smaller floor area. The core and periphery theory can be used to dominance of the retail space market in Taiwan over the last decade, during which period large-scale American-style shopping centres entered the market to compete with existing department store chains. Based on a database of 45 large-scale retail centres, the results reveal the representative core and peripheral retail categories of the market in Taiwan. Moreover, the results reveal that department stores continue to dominate the mainstream multi-unit retail space market in Taiwan. Large-scale shopping centres were not able to cooperate with department stores becoming anchors like western regional shopping centres. Unable to capture the mainstream market, shopping centres thus began to adjust their leasing strategies and reposition to less significant sub-market segmentations. |