Artikel
Digital Transition by COVID‐19 Pandemic? The German Food Online Retail
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sharp increase in online trade. This article examines the impact of the pandemic on online grocery retail in Germany. Here we follow and refine the multi-level perspective by Geels, and examine to what extent and why the online grocery retail expanded during the pandemic. A particular focus is on the spatial expansion into rural areas. The study shows a general upswing in the grocery trade and disproportionately high growth in online grocery trade and identifies driving and limiting factors. While COVID-19 has opened a window of opportunity, our results indicate little transition of grocery to e-grocery. This finding can be explained by the sudden and temporary constellation at the level of the socio-technical regime during the pandemic. As a result, we argue for a rethinking the temporality of windows of opportunities and the related vulnerability of the innovations which need them.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie ; ISSN: 1467-9663 ; Volume: 111 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 543-560 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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COVID‐19
digitalisation
e‐commerce
e‐grocery
food retail
Germany
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dannenberg, Peter
Fuchs, Martina
Riedler, Tim
Wiedemann, Cathrin
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Veröffentlichung
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Wiley
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Hoboken, NJ
- (when)
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.1111/tesg.12453
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10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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- Dannenberg, Peter
- Fuchs, Martina
- Riedler, Tim
- Wiedemann, Cathrin
- Wiley
Time of origin
- 2020
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