The garment industry and retail have been prominently submitted, to a continuous adaption process to the new tendencies of the international business environment, being confronted with numerous challenges emerged from the necessity to satisfy the consumer's polyvalent behavior, in continuous...

One of the major themes in the contemporary society — greatly affected by hyper-competition, globalization and rapid change in the behavior of demand agents (buyers) — consists of theoretical debates and practical challenges raised in relation to the concept of brand. There seems to be no...

While vertical firms dominate the fashion markets worldwide since years, only little research is done on vertical alliances between non-vertical retailer and manufacturing companies in this sector. These paper analyses vertical alliances from the perspective of 98 traditional fashion retailers...