Retailing 4.0 and Technology-Driven Innovation: A Literature Review

The paper analyzes the contribution of technology for boosting innovation within the retail industry. The study focuses on the main areas of innovation for retailers, both in the relationships with suppliers and the final demand. With reference to vertical relationships (for supplying activities), the key innovation areas are those of technology based interaction tools, joint management of supplying activities, and E-sourcing. In the relations with consumers, technology is stimulating innovation on checkout technologies, dynamic in-store pricing, electronic and mobile payments, augmented reality, artificial intelligence-supported devices, and self-service technologies

Positioning Teacher Candidates as Self-Regulated, Critically Thinking Learners and Teachers in an Elementary Writing Course With a Tutoring Component

Few interventions attempt to foster teacher candidates\u27 self-regulated learning and teaching roles concurrently. This chapter explores 12 education majors\u27 development of self-regulated, critical thinking skills related to learning and teaching as they participated in an elementary writing methods course with a tutoring component. The instructor of the course devised and offered a four-step model of intervention to stimulate the teacher candidates\u27 self-regulatory dispositions. The teacher candidates perceived their responses to context-specific questions created by the instructor as most beneficial to their development of self-regulated attributes