Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: Volume 8 Issue 3

The European clothing industry: Meeting the competitive challenge

Ian M. Taplin, Jonathan Winterton

This paper examines earlier and more recent patterns of restructuring that have occurred as a consequence of import penetration. It focuses upon work reorganization, job losses…

The UK clothing industry: Extinction or evolution?

R.M. Jones, S.G. Hayes

To provide an opinion as to the demise or metamorphosis of the UK clothing industry within the wider European context. Recently conducted research, along with a range of pertinent…

Organizational foundations of export performance: The case of the Turkish apparel industry

Binnur Neidik

To provide an overview of the organizational changes Turkish apparel firms have undertaken in the 1990s and early 2000s and to show how these changes affect sector's export…

Structural change: The dominant feature in the economic development of the German textile and clothing industries

Ulrich Adler

The textile and clothing industries are good examples to analyse emerging industrial trends in international co‐operation and to map the globalisation effects on outward…

International competitive change and strategic behaviour of Italian textile‐apparel firms

Simone Guercini

In the 1990s the trend of textile and apparel manufacturing in Italy differed considerably from other European countries with high labour costs. The examination of the peculiar…

Final demise or regeneration?: The Dutch case

Michiel Scheffer, Marieke Duineveld

This paper examines the impact of the increasing global competition on the Dutch apparel industry and the changes in the whole apparel supply chain. The restructuring of the Dutch…

Blockbusters: The Five Keys to Developing Great New Products

Ronald E. Goldsmith