Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • harvard-cite-them-right
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Local fashion value chains: Success factors and competitive advantages
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business. (Textile Management)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2015-6275
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business. (Textile Management)
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business. Tampere University of Technology. (Textile Management)
Tampere University of Technology.
2016 (English)In: Textiles: Inseperable from the human environment, 2016, p. 631-638Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Sustainable development
The content falls within the scope of Sustainable Development
Abstract [en]

Globalization had forced fashion companies to move their manufacturing to low cost bases. However, in the recent times several challenges like poor transparency, ethical issues, high transportation costs, long lead times, etc. have motivated major reshoring initiatives. Steadily the fashion companies in the west are relocating back their production and are motivated by trends of greater product customization, supply chain transparency and digital technologies. In addition, several initiatives have been launched to support this development, for example the US initiatives: [TC]2 “Reshoring Fashion Initiative” and “Apparel Made for You”. However detailed scholarly discussion on what enables success of such local fashion value chain models are limited. This paper explores the drivers, critical success factors and competitive advantages in designing such local fashion value chains by drawing inferences from a European initiative called “fromRolltoBag”. An action research is employed to collect empirical data through observations and interviews with the project stakeholders. Results show that the competitive success lies in designing a consumer-driven, digitally-enabled fashion value chain, enabled by the strategy of differentiation through: (i) advanced digitalization of design and manufacturing operations, (ii) flexible, integrated and agile operations, and (iii) enhanced customer experience/interaction with the extended product-service system.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016. p. 631-638
Keywords [en]
Local manufacturing, consumer-driven, digital fashion, competitive advantage, critical success factor
National Category
Economics and Business
Research subject
Textiles and Fashion (General)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-10552ISBN: 978-83-928618-5-0 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-10552DiVA, id: diva2:953861
Conference
90th Textile Institute World Conference, 25-28 April Poznan, Poland
Projects
fromRolltoBag
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 644114Available from: 2016-08-18 Created: 2016-08-18 Last updated: 2017-05-02Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(642 kB)1897 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 642 kBChecksum SHA-512
085468fce95658781dbb059455089dabcdbf6f9f222132cf6f239e291ea222f5d7d9cd9b91739b91d615c53482e9fb6710a96e33a431373f9c0150495a69eb29
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Authority records

Pal, RudrajeetLarsson, Jonas

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Pal, RudrajeetLarsson, Jonas
By organisation
Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business
Economics and Business

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 1897 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 5121 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • harvard-cite-them-right
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf