The Puppet Show: Changing Buyer-Supplier Relationships within Clothing Retailing

Modeling and Analysis of the Motivations of Fast Fashion Consumers in Relation to Innovativeness

“…This result is in parallel with the statement Generation Y would prefer a higher number of lowquality, cheap and fashionable clothes [50], which are actually fast fashion products. Specifically, it can be stated that fast fashion products are preferred by fashion conscious but low income people that are not able to afford high quality fashionable products.…”

Shifts in Value Chain Governance and Upgrading in the European Periphery of Automotive Production: Evidence from Bursa, Turkey

“…This suggests that the shift of design responsibility to suppliers is a means for lead firms to extend their power (see also Tokatl| et al, 2008). In this regard, the upgrading of Turkish suppliers in design and product development seems more likely to be a result of lead-firm strategies to peripheralise their traditionally core activities (Schrank, 2004), and hence does not imply that suppliers are encroaching on the core competences of their customers (see also Crewe and Davenport, 1992;Tokatl| et al, 2008). It would seem instead that asymmetric power relations are being maintained in the global automotive industry, and that lead firms continue to have a major influence on the type of upgrading strategies that are open to their suppliers.…”

Developing the fashion industry in Africa: The case of Johannesburg

“…Several studies confirm the importance of understanding the uneven nature of power relationships in the global clothing economy, in particular between the dominant players of the world's largest retailers and brand marketers on the one hand, and of geographically dispersed manufacturers on the other hand (Crewe and Davenport, 1992;Crewe and Forster, 1993;Gereffi, 1999;Bonacich and Appelbaum, 2000;Gereffi et al, 2002;Hassler, 2004). Large retailers and branded marketers and manufacturers without factories essentially control global networks through their capacity to shape consumption via mass brand names (Dicken and Hassler, 2000;Rosen, 2002;Hassler, 2003aHassler, , 2003bTokatli and Kizilgun, 2004).…”