... conditions Concern with overseas labour conditions (in this project) Enforcement capacity Coercive Encouraging Source(s): Authors’ own Labour and human rights Textiles and apparel Supply chain Value chain Due diligence Strategic enforcement While the fashion industry...

...Alex Rudniy; Olena Rudna; Arim Park Purpose This paper seeks to demonstrate the value of using social media to capture fashion trends, including the popularity of specific features of clothing, in order to improve the speed and accuracy of supply chain response in the era of fast fashion...

...Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana; Jung E. Ha-Brookshire Purpose This study investigates the relationships between knowledge management capabilities (KMC), supply chain agility (SCA) and disruption mitigation performance (DMP) in the U.S. fashion retail industry (FRI) during turbulent times...

...Jin Su; Nancy Nelson Hodges; Huicheng (Jeff) Wu; Md Arif Iqbal Purpose The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the global textile and apparel supply chain from the perspectives of industry professionals within the two leading...

... lockdown. Findings The research findings suggest that, at the time this research was undertaken, these retailers were focussed on regaining profit, protecting their supply chains and producing “safe” designs whilst cutting back and becoming more risk averse. These actors suggested that, in contrast...

... in the holistic approach for managing and sustaining multiple suppliers of a company based on performance. Supply chain Supplier selection Order distribution Supplier evaluation Supplier monitoring Fast fashion Murat Caner Testik can be contacted at: murat.testik@gmail.com , mtestik...

..., offset the carbon footprint, build a transparent, sustainable supply chain and avoid animal cruelty. Originality/value There is a lack of research focusing on the whole supply chain and sustainability when investigating sustainable practices and topic trends. This study fills a part of the gap...

... implications – The main social implications of this work concern first the role of consumers, who may vary greatly in the degree of awareness they exercise when buying, and second the close connections between organized crime and the counterfeiting supply chain. Originality/value – Counterfeiting has...

... – Rich narrative data shows that the apparel supply chain has changed. The small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) have had more success in managing the upstream rather than the downstream, supported by their move towards a more design driven system. This willingness has been motivated by their wish...

...Professor Ian Phau and Min Teah; Alessandro Brun; Antonella Moretto Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the organisation of the quality department and the management of the supply chain (SC) used by luxury companies to achieve quality requirements. Design/methodology/approach...

...Katelyn Fulton; Seung‐Eun Lee Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify retailers selling sustainable apparel goods on the internet and examine their sustainable initiatives in the supply chain based on the United Nation's Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), one of the most widely used...

... duty rates. TPLs were implemented to help US firms obtain imports from materials that were in short supply. But they created another outlet to export textile products from Mexico to the USA. Free trade Apparel Textile industry Corporate strategy Supply chain USA The US textile...

...Robert Redfern; Caroline L. Davey Textile industry supply chains take raw materials through several processes before reaching the consumer. At the start of a supply chain the consumer seems far away and the degree to which the raw material plays a part in the consumer product is difficult to gauge...