Purpose: Green supply chain management (GSCM) research is so far dominated by studies focusing on manufacturing companies, while research on retailers is missing. The purpose of this study is to assess the interaction between green in-store activities (environment-related infrastructure and retail in-store processes), GSCM and environmental and economic performance outcomes.Design/methodology/approach: The paper builds on empirical evidence gathered from 190 responses by Croatian food retailers to a self-administered survey. The identified relationships in the conceptual model are tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling.Findings: The results reveal a positive relation between green in-store activities and GSCM in food retailing regarding environmental and economic performance. The relevance of these relationships accrues from the positive association between GSCM and food retailers’ environmental performance, which in turn drives economic performance. It is noteworthy that green supply chain practices drive environmental and then also economic performance.Research limitations/implications: The study extends the application of GSCM to retailing and, therefore, broadens its scope. However, the data collected are based on one country and, thus, should be extended to assess the impact of green retailing practices in the supply chain on environmental and economic performance in other countries.Originality/value: This study, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, is the first empirical analysis on the relationship between green in-store activities and GSCM in the context of food retail. This important link to customers has rarely been explored. Further, the representative sample of food retailers in Croatia is unique as generally data from Central and Eastern European countries are still rare. Finally, the operationalization of GSCM practices into three constructs as green logistics, green purchasing and cooperation with suppliers’ offers conceptual contributions to the GSCM field.

Non-catastrophic weather risk is gaining importance as climate change becomes more pronounced and economic crisis forces companies to strengthen their cost control. Recent literature proposes weather derivatives as flexible weather risk mitigating tools. Only a handful of studies analysed the feasibility of weather derivatives in industries other than agriculture and energy. The purpose of this paper is to review available weather risk management solutions in retail, present weather derivatives as non-catastrophic weather risk management tools, empirically demonstrate the process of designing weather derivatives and assess their effectiveness as risk mitigating tools in retail. Empirical analysis is performed on beverage sales in 60 large food stores in Croatia, and performance of monthly temperature put options during the summer season is examined. For weather sensitivity analysis of sales, the method of panel regression was used. Results show that weather has a statistically significant effect on beverage sales and that weather derivatives prove to be effective in beverage sales uncertainty reduction. Their effectiveness differs between covered periods and cities.

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Nowadays, the value acquired by customers during shopping can be perceived in two dimensions: utilitarian and hedonic. In order to identify online group buying behaviour of young adult consumers, research was conducted among university students in Poland. The purpose of the research was to profile group buyers in Poland regarding their demographic and behavioural (hedonic or utilitarian) characteristics. Results of the performed statistical data analysis show some significant associations in group buying behaviour, while it is not possible to hypothesise regarding demographic characteristics of the respondents and their motivation for group buying. Further on, one of the contribution of this research lies in performed factor analysis by which it is possible to give more precise insights in online group buying behaviour according to hedonic or utilitarian buying behaviours.

The paper presents legal and economic aspects of the transfers of football players. Transfer rules in sports are problematic because they may result in unbalanced competition, social and financial fraud, disproportionate restrictions on the freedom of movement of players, excessive transfer fees and discrimination on the basis of nationality. The aim of the paper is to synthesize relevant knowledge and provide an overview of relevant regulatory framework regarding the player transfers in the European Union. The free movement of people and sports professionals is a key component of player transfers, and in order to confirm this, three prominent cases which shaped the transfer system were studied: the Bosman case, the Lehtonen case, the Bernard case and the Royal Antwerp case. Court ruled that sport is to be included to the list of activities covered by the Community Law as it qualified as an economic activity, particularly where it generates a profit or a paid service. Accomplished legal freedoms of players resulted in accompanying economic benefits, hence paper portrays economic aspects of transfers as well and chronologically analyses transfer market.