2025 Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 69-76
The overseas expansion of distribution industries (retail, food service, and service sectors) has been limited in scale compared to that of manufacturing industries, with a notable lack of statistical data and disclosed information. This scarcity has been identified as a hindrance to research in this field. The traditional approach to addressing this issue has been to conduct interview surveys with individual companies. While interviews provide valuable insights, they also present significant limitations. Moreover, the actual conditions under which such surveys are conducted have rarely been clarified. Accordingly, this paper examines the factors contributing to the lack of information on the overseas expansion of distribution industries while systematically analyzing the effectiveness and limitations of commonly used interview surveys, particularly based on the author's own experiences.
