Research and Development Costs in Retail Trade

Radojko Lukic (), Srdjan Lalic () and Dragana VOJTESKI Kljenak ()
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Radojko Lukic: Faculty of Economics, Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Srdjan Lalic: Faculty of Economics, Brcko, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragana VOJTESKI Kljenak: Faculty of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship, Serbia

Management and Economics Review, 2016, vol. 1, issue 2, 170-182

Abstract: Research and development expenses are crucial business performance factors for all enterprises, including trading companies. The size and structure of these expenses depend largely on the nature of a company's activities. Due to such importance and specificity, the research focus of this article is on R&D expenses in trading companies with particular emphasis on retail companies. Their share in the sales revenue of trading companies is increasingly important and determined by many factors, such as innovation, size, location, product categories, and others. Due to varying intensity of influence of these and other factors, research and development expenses in commercial companies differ among countries, trade types (wholesale, retail, wholesale and retail), retail formats (store types) and product categories. Understanding the factors of these differences is important for efficient management of research and development costs in trade, particularly retail companies. They are the focus of research in this work.

Keywords: significance and strategy; innovation; brand and knowledge; intangibles and capitalization; online retailing and information technology; control. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L81 M42 Q32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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