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Year |
Author(s) | Title | Publisher and Journal | Download |
Pickles' office? |
Topic |
2007 |
Adhikari, Ratnakar and Yumiko Yamamoto | The Textile and Clothing Industry: Adjusting to the post-quota world | In Industrial Development for the 21st Century: Sustainable Development Perspectives. New York: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2006 |
Abernathy, Frederick H., Anthony Volpe and David Weil | The Future of the Apparel and Textile Industries: Prospects and Choices for Public and Private Actors | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 2207-2232. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Arnold, Dennis | Free Trade Agreements in Southeast Asia | Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp 195-216. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Bair, Jennifer | Regional Trade and Production Blocs in a Global Industry: Towards a Comparative Framework for Research | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, Issue 12. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Conway, Patrick | Global Implications of Unraveling Textiles and Apparel Quotas | unpublished. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Gereffi, Gary | The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development | Geneva: ILO | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Hess, Martin and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung | Whither Global Production Networks in Economic Geography Past, Present, and Future | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, pp. 1193-1204. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Pickles, John | Trade Liberalization, Upgrading and Regionalization in the Global Apparel Industry | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, Issue 12, pp. 2201-2206. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Pickles, John, Adrian Smith, Milan Bucek, Poli Roukova, Robert Begg | Upgrading, Changing Competitive Pressures and Diverse Practices in the East and Central European Apparel Industry | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, Issue 12, pp. 2305-2324. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Stop CAFTA Coalition | Monitoring Report: DR-CAFTA in Year One | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | ||
2006 |
Weil, David | Lean Retailing and Supply Chain Restructuring: Implications for Private and Public Governance | Paper prepared for “Observing Trade: Revealing International Trade Networks,” Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2006 |
Cammet, Melani | Development and the Changing Dynamics of Global Production: Global Value Chains and Local Clusters in Apparel Manufacturing | Competition and Change, Vol. 10, No. 1, Mar, pp. 23-48. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2006 |
Dunford, Michael | Industrial Districts, Magic Circles, and the Restructuring of the Italian Textiles and Clothing Chain | Economic Geography, Vol. 82, No. 1, Jan, pp. 27-59. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2006 |
World Bank | Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan after the End of the Multi-Fiber Agreement: Impact, Challenges and Prospects | Report No. 35376 MNA, Social and Economic Development Sector Unit, Middle East and North Africa Region. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Appelbaum, Richard | The End of Apparel Quotas: A Faster Race to the Bottom? | University of California, Santa Barbara: Global & International Studies Program. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Appelbaum, Richard | TNCs and the Removal of Textiles and Clothing Quotas | Center for Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Buelens, Christian | Trade Adjustments following the Removal of Textile and Clothing Quotas | CEPS Working Documents, May. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
International Trade Centre | Source-it: Global Material Sourcing for the Clothing Industry | Geneva: UNCTAD-WTO. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Smith, A., Pickles, J., Begg, B., Roukova, P., Bucek, M. | utward Processing, EU Enlargement and Regional Relocation in the European Textiles and Clothing Industry: Reflections on the European Commission's Communication on 'The Future of the Textiles and Clothing Sector in the Enlarged European Union | European Urban and Regional Studies, January, 12(1): 83-91. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Bair, Jennifer | Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward | Competition and Change, Vol. 9, No. 2: 153-180. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Barrie, Leonie | The Clash over CAFTA-just-style's Analysis of the Central American Free Trade Agreement | Aroq Limited: www.just-style.com, March. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Giuliani, Elisa, Roberta Rabellotti and Meine Peter Van Dijk | Clusters Facing Competition: The Importance of External Linkages | Aldershot: Ashgate. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Hashim, Danish | Post-MFA. Making the Textile and Garment Industry Competitive | Economic and Political Weekly, 8 January. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2005 |
Kaplinsky, Raphael | Globalization, Poverty and Inequality | Polity Press. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Appelbaum, Richard | Assessing the Impact of the Phasing-out of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on Apparel Exports on the Least Developed and Developing Countries | Center for Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Birnbaum, David | Garment Sourcing: Past, Present and Future | www.just-style.com | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Birnbaum, David | Winners & Losers 2005: Supplement to Birnbaum's Strategic Sourcing Report | The Fashiondex, Inc. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2004 |
Flanagan, Mike | How Retailers Source Apparel-Why what Concerns Buyers isn't always What Concerns Sellers: Management Briefing | Aroq Limited: www.just-style.com, January. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2004 |
Knappe, M. | Trade in Textiles and Clothing Eastern Europe and Developing County Clothing Manufacturers and Competitiveness after 2005. | A Presentation to the Conference on Global Apparel/Clothing Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Trade Liberalization and Production Networks in the New European Clothing Industry. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 14 October. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Mayer, G | Not Totally Naked: Textiles and Clothing Trade in a Quota Free Environment | Geneva: UNCTAD. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Nordås, H.K. (WTO) | The Global Textile and Clothing Industry post the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing | Discussion Paper No. 5, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
US International Trade Commission | Textiles and Apparel: Assessment of the Competitiveness of Certain Foreign Suppliers to the U.S. Market | (Investigation No. 332-448, sent to USTR in June 2003) Publication 3671, January 2004. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2004 |
US International Trade Commission | Comparative Assessment of the Competitiveness of the Textile and Apparel Sector in Selected Countries | Chapter 3. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Hughes, Alexandra and Suzanne M. Reimer | Geographies of Commodity Chains | Oxford and New York: Routlege. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Kessler, Judi A. | Free Trade and Garment Work: the Impact of NAFTA on Service and Manufacturing Jobs in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry | International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, Vol. 28, Num. 2, June, 308-328. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Rees, Kathleen and Jan Hathcote | The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry in the Age of Globalization | Global Economy Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Article 4. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2004 |
Schrank, Andrew | Ready-to-wear development? Foreign investment, technology transfer, and learning by watching in the apparel trade | Social Forces, Vol. 83, No. 1, Sep, pp. 123-156. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
2003 |
Flanagan, Mike | Apparel Sourcing in the 21st Century, the 10 Lessons so far | Aroq Limited and Clothesource Limited: www.just-style.com. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Global reconfigurations |
2003 |
Gibbon, Peter | The African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Global Commodity Chain for Clothing | World Development, Vol. 31, Num. 11, Jun, pp. 1809-1838. | No |
Global reconfigurations | |
| Kalish, Ira | Quotas End, Uncertainty Continues: Understanding the Impact of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing | Deloitte. | Yes |
Global reconfigurations | ||
2004 |
Guerrieri, Paolo and Carlo Pietrobelli | Industrial Districts' Evolution and Technological Regimes: Italy and Taiwan | Technovation, Vol. 24, pp. 899-914. | No |
Inter-Industry upgrading | |
2003 |
Palpacuer, Florence and Aurelio Parisotto | Global production and local jobs: can global enterprise networks be used as levers for local development? | Global Networks, Vol. 3, Num. 2, pp. 97-120. | No |
Inter-Industry upgrading | |
2007 |
Collins, Jane | The Rise of a Global Garment Industry and the Reimagination of Worker Solidarity | Special Issue of Critique of Anthropology in memory of William Roseberry, forthcoming. | No |
Labor | |
2006 |
Appelbaum, Richard and Nelson Lichtenstein | A New World of Retail Supremacy: Supply Chains and Workers' Chains in the Age of Wal-Mart | International Labor and Working-Class History, 70 (Fall). | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Labor |
2006 |
Arnold, Dennis | Labour in Cambodia Post-MFA | Oxfam International, unpublished consultancy document, July. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Labor |
2006 |
Arnold, Dennis and Kevin Hewison | Exploitation in Global Supply Chains: Burmese Migrant Workers in Mae Sot, Thailand | Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2005, pp. 319-340. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Labor |
2006 |
Chang, Dae-oup | Globalising the Factory and Informalising Labour: Overview of the Informalisation of Work in Asia | Asia Monitor Resource Centre: Asian Labour Update, No. 58, January-March. | Yes |
Labor | |
2006 |
Fair Labor Association | The Expiration of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) and its Consequences for Global Labor Standards | 2005 Annual Public Report/Feature Issue, October. | Yes |
Labor | |
2006 |
Womyn's Agenda for Change | Impact of the end of MFA on Workers in Cambodia | Phnom Penh. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Labor |
2006 |
Appelbaum, Richard | The Sweatshop Epidemic: Is There a Cure? | New Labor Forum, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 112-148, Summer. | No |
Labor | |
2006 |
Collins, Jane | Globalizing Firms and Small Communities: The Apparel Industry's Changing Connection to Rural Labor Markets | Rural Sociology, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 281-310. | No |
Labor | |
2006 |
Collins, Jane | Redefining the Boundaries of Work: Apparel Workers and Community Unionism in the Global Economy | Identities, Vol. 13, pp. 9-31. | No |
Labor | |
2006 |
Dreier, Peter and Richard Appelbaum | Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor | The Nation On-Line, June 1. | No |
Labor | |
2005 |
Dhanarajan, Sumi | Managing Ethical Standards: When Rhetoric Meets Reality | Development in Practice, Vol. 15, No. 3 & 4, June. | Yes |
Labor | |
2005 |
International Labour Organization | Changing Patterns in the World of Work | DTP-95th Session Report 1(C). | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Labor |
2005 |
International Labour Organization | Promoting Fair Globalization in Textiles and Clothing in a Post-MFA Environment | Geneva: Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Promoting Fair Globalization. | Yes |
Labor | |
2005 |
Thai Labour Campaign | The MFA Phase-out and Thai Workers” | unpublished. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Labor |
2005 |
The MFA Forum | MFA Forum: Past, Present and Future | Yes |
Labor | ||
2005 |
Asia Monitor Resource Centre | Supply Chains | Asian Labour Update, No. 54, January-March. | No |
Labor | |
2005 |
Hale, Angela | The phase-out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement from the perspective of workers | In Hale, A. and Wills, J. (eds) Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 210-233. | No |
Labor | |
2005 |
Hale, Angela and Jane Wills | Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective | Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. | No |
Labor | |
2005 |
Yimprasert, Junya and Petter Hveem | Race to the Bottom: The Exploitation of Burmese Migrant Workers in the Thai Garment Industry | Oslo: Norwegian Church Aid. | No |
Labor | |
2004 |
BSR Group | Managing the Transition to a Responsible Post-MFA global Garment Industry | Research Briefing for the BSR Conference 2004, November. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Labor |
2004 |
Ferenschild, Sabine and Ingeborg Wick | Global Game for Cuffs and Collars: The Phase-out of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing Aggravates Social Divisions” | Suedwind Texte 14. | Yes |
Labor | |
2004 |
Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS) | Corporate Social Responsibility & the Apparel Sector Buyer survey results | International Finance Corporation and The World Bank. | Yes |
Labor | |
2004 |
Oxfam International | Trading Away Our Rights: Women working in global supply chains | Oxford: Oxfam International. | Yes |
Labor | |
2004 |
Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD | Trade, Offshoring of Jobs and Structural Adjustment: The Need for a Policy Response | Paris: TUAC Discussion Paper. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Labor |
2004 |
Weil, David | What Drives Employment in the Global Textile and Apparel Industries? | Sloan Industry Studies Annual Meeting, April 19-21, Atlanta, GA. | Yes |
Labor | |
2004 |
Appelbaum, Richard | Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of Enforcing Global Labor Standards | In Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson (eds) Critical Globalization Studies. NY: Routledge. | No |
Labor | |
2004 |
Asia Monitor Resource Centre | Multi-fibre Arrangement | Asian Labour Update, No. 52, July-September. | No |
Labor | |
2004 |
Asia Monitor Resource Centre | A Critical Guide to Corporate Codes of Conduct, Pranjal Tiwari, Chang Dae-oup and Ed Shepherd (eds.) | Hong Kong: Asia Monitor Resource Centre. | No |
Labor | |
2004 |
Chari Sharad and Gidwani V. | Geographies of Work | Introduction to Special Issues of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 475-484. | No |
Labor | |
2004 |
Chari, Sharad | Fraternal Capital: Peasant Workers, Self-Made Men and Globalization in Provincial India, | Delhi: Permanent Black. | No |
Labor | |
2003 |
Appelbaum, Richard | Would a Social Clause in Trade Treaties Hurt or Help International Workers' Rights? | PEWS Newsletter, Fall. | No |
Labor | |
2003 |
Collins, Jane | Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry | The University of Chicago Press. | No |
Labor | |
2000 |
International Labour Organization | Labour Practices in the Footwear, Leather, Textiles and Clothing Industries | Report for discussion at te Tripartitie Meeting on Labour Practices in the Footwear, Leather, Textiles and Clothing Industries, Geneva: International Labour Office, 16-20 October. | Yes |
Labor | |
2005 |
Ahmad, Munir | Textile and Clothing Trade Post the Quota Regime: An Essential Agenda for Sustaining Apparel Exports of Developing Economies | Presentation: UNCTAD Meeting on Strengthening the Participation of Developing Countries in Dynamic Sectors in World Trade: Trends, Issues and Policies, Geneva: 9 February. | Yes |
State | |
2005 |
Rangaswami, Viji | A Stitch in Time: Helping Vulnerable Countries Meet the Challenges of Apparel Quota Elimination | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Policy Outlook, October, | Yes |
State | |
2005 |
The Asia Foundation | The Phase-out of the Multi-fiber Arrangement: Policy Options and Opportunities for Asia | Yes |
State | ||
2005 |
Shafaeddin, S. M. | Towards an Alternative Perspective on Trade and Industrial Policies | Development and Change, Volume 36, Number 6, November, pp. 1143-1162(20). | No |
State | |
2004 |
Abernathy, Frederick H., Anthony Volpe and David Weil | The apparel and textile industries after 2005: prospects and choices | draft ms. | Yes |
State | |
2004 |
Amin, Magdi M. | Use of Value Chain Analysis to Support Investment Climate Reform | World Bank Group, Private Sector Forum, 20 April. | Yes |
State | |
2006 |
Abecassis-Moedas, Céline | Integrating design and retail in the clothing value chain. An empirical study of the organisation of design | International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 412-426. | No |
Technology and design | |
2006 |
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul, Claude Comtois and Brian Slack | The Geography of Transport Systems | New York: Routledge. | No |
Technology and design | |
2004 |
Dickson, Marsha A. and Li Zhang | Supplier-retailer relationships in China's distribution channel for foreign brand apparel | Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 201-220. | No |
Technology and design | |
2007 |
Wells, Don | `Best Practice' in the Regulation of International Labor Standards: Lessons of the US-Cambodia Trade Agreement | Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, February (forthcoming). | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2007 |
Tokatli, Nebahat | Asymmetrical Power Relations and Upgrading Among Suppliers of Global Clothing Brands: Hugo Boss in Turkey | Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 67-92, January. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2007 |
Tokatli, Nebahat | Networks, Firms and Upgrading within the Blue-jeans Industry: Evidence from Turkey | Global Networks, Vol. 7, No. 1. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2006 |
Evans, Yara and Adrian Smith | Surviving at the Margins? Deindustrialization, the Creative Industries, and Upgrading in London's Garment Sector | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, Issue 12, pp. 2253-2269 | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
FIAS | Lesotho: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Lesotho's Apparel Sector | AccountAbility, Discussion Draft, March. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
FIAS | Market Diversification of the Lesotho Garment Industry | AccountAbility, April. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS) | Lesotho: The Competitiveness of Regional and Vertical Integration of Lesotho's Garment Industry | AccountAbility, Discussion Draft, April. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Francia, Joseph H | Philippine Trade in Garments, Textile, Yarn and Fabric and Other made up Textile Materials: 2004-2005 | UNDP, draft, unpublished. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Harvey, Ros | International Labor Standards in the Private Sector Workplace | Better Factories Cambodia: Power Point Presentation, unpublished. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Neidik, Binnur and Gary Gereffi | Explaining Turkey's Emergence and Sustained Competitiveness as a Full-Package Supplier of Apparel | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, Issue 12. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Nuon, Veasna | Business as Usual? Governing the Supply Chain in Clothing Post MFA Phase out. The Case of Cambodia | Paper for the ISS Conference: The Impact of Global Production Systems on Trade Union Strategies, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, May 10-11. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Palpacuer, Florence | The global sourcing patterns of French clothing retailers: determinants and implications for suppliers' industrial upgrading, | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, Issue 12, pp. 2271-2283. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Scott, Allen J. | The Changing Global Geography of Low-Technology, Labor-Intensive Industry: Clothing, Footwear, and Furniture” | World Development Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 1517-1536. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2006 |
Smith, Adrian and Y. Evans | Creative destruction: de-industrialisation or a ‘fashion capital for the creative industries' in London | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, Issue 12, pp. 2325-2344. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Tewari, Meenu | Adjustment in India's Textile and Apparel Industry-Reworking Historical Legacies in a Post-MFA World | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, Issue 12, pp. 2325-2344. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
Tewari, Meenu | Is Price and Cost-competitiveness enough for Apparel Firms to Gain Market Share in the World without Quotas? A Review | Global Economy Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 4. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2006 |
World Trade Organization | Bangladesh successful in post-quota period, WTO reports | Emerging Textiles, Country Report. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2006 |
Yamagata, Tatsufumi | The Garment Industry in Cambodia: Its Role in Poverty Reduction through Export-Oriented Development | Institute of Developing Economies, Discussion Paper No. 62. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2006 |
Bair, Jennifer and Enrique Dussel Peters | Global Commodity Chains and Endogenous Growth: Export Dynamism and Development in Mexico and Honduras | World Development, 2: 203-221. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Bargawi, Omar | Cambodia's Garment Industry- Origins and Future Prospects | ESAU Economic and Statistics Analysis Unit, London: Overseas Development Institute, ESAU Working Paper 13, October. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Cambodia Development Research Institute | Cambodia's Garment Industry Post-2005: Situational Analysis and Strategic Responses at Factory and Association Level | Annual Development Review: 2004-05, Phnom Penh: CDRI, pp. 62-77. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2005 |
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, ITGLWF, SACTWU and LaRRI | The Future of the Textile and Clothing Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa | International Conference, Cape Town, October 10-11. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Magder, Dan | Egypt After the Multi-Fiber Arrangement: Global Apparel and Textile Supply Chains as a Route for Industrial Upgrading | Institute for International Economics, Working Paper Series, No. 05-8, August. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Palpacuer, Florence, Peter Gibbon and Lotte Thomsen | New Challenges for Developing Country Suppliers in Global Clothing Chains: A Comparative European Perspective | World Development, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 409-430. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2005 |
Pickles, John and Adrian Smith | Technologies of Transition: Foreign Investment and the (Re-) Articulation of East Central Europe into the Global Economy | In David Turnock (ed.). Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: a Collection of Essays in Memory of Professor Francis ''Frank'' Carter. Ashgate, pp. 21-37. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2005 |
Russian Federation | Investment Climate Assessment Preliminary Concept Note | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Salm, Andy | Botswana Textile and Apparel Sub Sector Study: Discussion Draft | Background study to the World Bank-BIDPA Botswana Export Diversification Study. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
USAID | Measuring Competitiveness and Labor Productivity in Cambodia's Garment Industry | United States Agency for International Development. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2005 |
Wattanapruttipaisan, Thitapha | Background Note on the Impact of Quota Phasing out on Textiles and clothing Production and Trade | Bureau of Economic Integration, ASEAN Secretariat, BEI Studies Unit, Paper No. 01/2005. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
De Neve, Geert | Weaving for IKEA in South India: Subcontracting. Labour Markets and Gender Relations in a Global Value Chain | In Assayag, Jackie, C.J. Fuller (eds), Globalizing India. London. Anthem, pp. 89-115. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Giuliani, Elisa, Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti | Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Lessons from Latin American Clusters | World Development, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 549-573. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Hassler, Markus | Global Markets, local home-working: Governance and inter-firm relationships in Balinese clothing industry | Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 31-43. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Hassler, Markus | Governing Consumption: buyer-supplier relationships in the Indonesian retailing business | Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Hassler, Markus | “Raw Material Procurement, industrial upgrading and labor recruitment: intermediaries in Indonesia's clothing industry | Geoforum, Vol. 35, Num. 4, Jul, pp. 441-451. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Thoburn, John T., Khalid Nadvi, Chris Edwards and Markus Eberhardt | Challenges to Vietnamese firms in the global garment and textile value chain | In Elisa Giuliani, Roberta Rabellotti and Meine Pieter van Dijk (eds.) Clusters Facing Competition: the Importance of External Linkages. Ashgate. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2005 |
Van Dooren, Robine and German Zarate | The insertion of rural areas into the global markets: a comparison of garment production in Yucatan and La Laguna, Mexico | Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 35, Num. 3, Aug, Pages: pp. 571-592. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Russian Federation: Investment Climate Assessment Preliminary Concept Note | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | ||
2004 |
De Coster, Jozef | The Apparel Industry in the Ten EU Accession States: Management Briefing | Aroq Limited.: www.just-style.com. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2004 |
EU | The Challenge of 2005: European Textiles and Clothing in a Quota Free Environment | High Level Group Report and First Recommendations, June. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Kingdom of Cambodia, Ministry of Commerce | Cambodia's Garment Industry: Meeting the Challenges of the Post-Quota Environment | TA Report for the ADB. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Smith, Adrian | Regions, spaces of economic practice and diverse economies in the ‘new Europe' | European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 11, pp 9-25. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2004 |
Smith, Adrian, John Pickles and Robert Begg | Response to the Commission of the European Communities Communication on ‘The Future of the Textiles and Clothing Sector in the Enlarged European Union | (COM(2003) 649 final). | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2004 |
Watkins, Alfred and N. Agapitova | Creating a 21st Century Innovation System for a 21st Century Latvian Economy | World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3457, November. | Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Bonaglia, Federico | Meeting the Challenge of Private Sector Development. Experience from the Mekong Sub-region | OECD. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Chari, Sharad | Provincializing Capital: The Work of an Agrarian Past in South Indian Industry | In Comparative Studies in Society and History. 46: 760-785 Cambridge University Press. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Knutsen, Hege M. | Industrial Development in Buyer-driven Networks: The Garment Industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka | Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 4 No. 5. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Nadvi, Khalid et. A. | Challenges to Vietnamese Firms in the World Garment and Textile Value Chain, and the Implications for Alleviating Poverty | Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Vol. 9, No. 2, June. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Priti Ramamurthy | Why is buying a 'Madras' cotton shirt a political act? A feminist commodity chain analysis | Feminist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, Sep, pp. 734-769. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2004 |
Tokatli, Nebahat | Upgrading in the Global Clothing Industry: Mavi Jeans and the Transformation of a Turkish Firm from Full-package to Brand-name Manufacturing and Retailing | Economic Geography, Vol. 80, No. 3, July, pp. 221-240. | No |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases | |
2003 |
Bair, Jennifer and Gary Gereffi | Upgrading, Uneven Development and Jobs in the North American Apparel Industry | Global Networks Vol. 3, No. 2: 143-169. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2003 |
Begg, Robert, John Pickles, and Adrian Smith | Cutting it: European integration, trade regimes and the reconfiguration of East-Central European apparel production | Environment and Planning A, Vol. 35, pp. 2191-2207. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2003 |
Gereffi, Gary | The International Competitiveness of Asian Economies in the Global Apparel Commodity Chain | International Journal of Business and Society, Vol. 4, Num. 2, July, pp. 71-110. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2003 |
Smith, Adrian | Power relations, industrial clusters and regional transformations: pan-European integration and outward processing in the Slovak clothing industry | Economic Geography, Vol. 79, pp. 17-40. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2003 |
Smith, Adrian, Robert Begg, Milan Bucek, and John Pickles | Global trade, European integration and the restructuring of Slovak apparel exports | Ekonomicky Casopis (Slovak Journal of Economics). Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 731-748. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
2003 |
USAID | Economic and Employment Impacts on the Dominican Republic of Changing Global Trade Rules for Textiles and Apparel | Trade Developments, submitted by Nathan Associates, Inc., June. | Hardcopy |
Yes |
Upgrading/competitiveness - Country cases |
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