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Author: David Birnbaum
Publisher: Fashiondex
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780974101101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide for buying and producing in the clothing industry at the lowest cost, utilizing the tool Full Value Cost Analysis (FVCA).
Author: Elena Karpova
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-02-25
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1501338676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart one. Embarking on a global adventure -- Introduction to globalization -- Consumers, consumption, and well-being -- Textile and apparel supply matrix -- Sustainability in textile and apparel industries -- Part two. The global supply chain -- Textile and apparel trade: barriers, regulations, and politics -- Illegal and unethical trade activity -- Selecting locations for global sourcing -- Selecting vendors for global sourcing -- Part three. Trading partners -- Europe and the European Union -- The Americas and the Caribbean Basin -- Asia and Oceania -- The Middle East and Africa.
Author: Daniel F. Spulber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-07-02
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1139467115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalization has fundamentally changed the game of business. Strategic frameworks developed for the analysis of purely domestic business necessarily fall short in the international business context. Managers and business students require alternative approaches to understand and cope with these far-reaching changes. We must learn to think globally in order to succeed. Global Competitive Strategy shows how we can do this by providing a unique set of strategic tools for international business. Such tools include the 'star analysis' that allows strategy makers to integrate geographic information with market information about the global business environment. Also introduced is the 'global value connection' that shows managers how to account for the gains from trade and the costs of trade. Aimed at MBA students taking courses in international strategy, consultants and practising managers with responsibility for strategic development, this 2007 book offers a comprehensive strategic framework for gaining competitive advantage in the global marketplace.
Author: Nikolay Anguelov
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-09-04
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1498712231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food. But not clothes. Although the clothing industry is the second largest polluter after agriculture, most consumers do not think of clothes as a source of environmen
Author: Pietra Rivoli
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-11-24
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1118950143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business. Tracing a T-shirt's life story from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory and back to a U.S. storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the political and economic forces at work in the global economy. Along the way, this fascinating exploration addresses a wealth of compelling questions about politics, trade, economics, ethics, and the impact of history on today's business landscape. This new printing of the second edition includes a revised preface and a new epilogue with updates through 2014 on the people, industries, and policies related to the T-shirt's life story. Using a simple, everyday T-shirt as a lens through which to explore the business, economic, moral, and political complexities of globalization in a historical context, Travels encapsulates a number of complex issues into a single identifiable object that will strike a chord with readers as they: Investigate the sources of sustained competitive advantage in different industries Examine the global economic and political forces that explain trade patters between countries Analyze complex moral issues related to globalization and international business Discover the importance of cultural and human elements in international trade This story of a simple product illuminates the many complex issues which businesspeople, policymakers, and global citizens are touched by every day.
Author: Suzanne Berger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1317469704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal Taiwan examines the impact of globalization on the industry and economy of Taiwan since the spectacular growth of the 1990s. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with firms in Taiwan, China, the United States, Japan, Europe, and other areas, the book analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Taiwanese firms at a time when they face new competition from powerful global leaders and new producers in China. The contributors cover topics of enormous importance for Taiwan as well as the rest of the world, including transformations in the international economy, technological advances that enabled modularization and fragmentation of the production system, contract manufacturers, regionalization, and links with Chinese industry. The book addresses such questions as: Can Taiwanese companies be maintained and expanded with the same corporate strategies and public policies as in the past? Can these strategies still work for other countries? If changes are required, what resources can be mobilized in the public and private sectors? As massive relocation of manufacturing and services moves plants and jobs to low-wage countries like China and India, what will remain at home in societies like Taiwan?
Author: Tim Connor
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 187587061X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roman Grynberg
Publisher: Cameron May
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 749
ISBN-13: 1905017103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an important contribution towards promoting an understanding of the economic implications of preferential rules of origin in textiles and clothing and their impact on international trade in these sectors. For the authors, it has been hard to contest that the design of garment rules of origin in both US and EU preferential arrangements is specifically aimed at protecting domestic textile interests, and only peripherally and incidentally at assisting the developing country beneficiary of the preference arrangement. The articles in this book aim to bring together works that are an exceptional analysis in their own right and studies commissioned by the Commonwealth at the request of developing countries. Apart from the articles, the book contains key legal documents that pertain to rules of origin and trade in textiles and clothing to assist the reader.
Author: Christian Barry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008-07-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0231512961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProgressive governments in poor countries fear that if they undertake measures to enhance real wages and working conditions, rising labor costs would cause wealthier countries to import from and invest elsewhere. Yet if the world trading system were designed to facilitate or even reward measures to promote labor standards, poor countries could undertake them without fear. In this book, Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy propose ways in which the international trading system can support poor countries in promoting the well-being of their peoples. Reforms to the trading system can lessen the collective-action problem among poor countries, increasing their freedom to pursue policy that better serves the interests of their people. Incorporating the right kind of linkage between trading opportunities and the promotion of labor standards could empower countries, allowing them greater effective sovereignty and enabling them to improve the circumstances of the less advantaged. Barry and Reddy demonstrate how linkage can be made acceptable to all players, and they carefully defend these ideas against those who might initially disagree. Their volume is accessible to general readers but draws on sophisticated economic and philosophical arguments and includes responses from leading labor activists, economists, and philosophers, including Kyle Bagwell, Robert Goodin, Rohini Hensman, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger.
Author: Andrea Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-06-25
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1350197009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNewcomers to the fashion industry often base costings on the sum of a style's fabric, trims and labor-and to that they simply add their markup. However, every other activity of the business erodes that markup, and they find themselves with an unsustainable profit-or a loss. This guide will help you avoid these pitfalls to guarantee a sustainable profit. Apparel Costing details traditional and current costing methods for the fast-paced and e-commerce-focused fashion marketplace. You will learn industry-specific product/style costing that can be applied to garments produced both locally and globally. You'll also learn how to calculate line item percentages on indirect cost factors, such as factory sourcing, overhead, administration and product development. Key topics include: Target Market Pricing; Variable vs Fixed Costs; Direct vs Indirect Cost Factors; Cost-Based vs Value-Based Costing; Domestic vs International Production Costing; Effect of Sourcing on Costing; Sustainability in Costing; Fast Fashion vs. Slow Fashion
