Available estimates of tariff equivalents of quotas and welfare calculations on the costs of MFA quotas for developing countries are based on the premise of perfect competition in both product and license markets. It is also assumed that the exporting countries which administer the MFA quotas...

The purpose of this study was to see how the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis-affected customer purchasing behavior in the Indian garment industry. The nationwide shutdown resulted in a significant shift in consumer buying habits.For fashion apparel brands and businesses to understand...

Over the past few months, the world has witnessed how COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the supply chain of the textile, apparel and fashion manufacturing (TAFM) industry in various unprecedented ways. As the global textile market is interconnected, this outbreak has a global impact due to travel...

With the fast-paced growth of e-commerce, it has been essential for both academicians and practitioners to understand how the ongoing shift to the online channel will impact the type and variety of products consumers purchase across the channels. Most of the literature examining the impact of...

The circular economy model enables businesses to incorporate regenerative manufacturing systems that use closed-loop resources to achieve economic and environmental sustainability. The work focuses on the circular economy’s competitive advantage from the multinationals apparel industry’s...

Purpose: The readymade garments (RMG) industry acts as one of the foremost vital catalysts for financial as well as social advancement of Bangladesh. Due to the harsh impact of COVID-19, RMG sector has been confronting a never-seen-before phenomenon. Since the supply chain has seriously been...

This study determined the influence of perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, trustworthiness, knowledge and competence as potential determinants of consumer-generated-content usage for apparel shopping in a sample of young adult consumers. The data was obtained from 455 young adult social...

Green consumption and pro-environmental behaviour have attracted considerable attention from academic marketing scholars. From the South Asian perspective, investigation on environmental awareness, social recognition, and self-image building through green consumption is very limited,...

Die Studie untersucht die globale Umweltinanspruchnahme unseres Konsums an Bekleidung. Sie zeigt die Emissionen von Treibhausgasgasen und Luftschadstoffen auf, die bei der Herstellung unserer Kleidung entstehen. Ein Schwerpunkt ist der Wasserverbrauch in trockenen Regionen für die Rohstoffe und...

The study highlights the importance of sales promotional tools on consumer buying behavior. The industry selected in the research is textile. The brands in the study are Khaddi, Gul Ahmed, Junaid Jamshed, Alkaram, Sana Safinaz and Bonanza Satrangi. The independent variables in the study are...

The prime objective of the research was to determine how the apparel manufacturing sector is embracing digitization and its leaders are preparing for the digital age? so we wanted to find out what type of leadership style is needed for digital leadership. The present study used a sample of 50...

AN EMERGING SHIFT OF THE COTTON-TEXTILE-APPAREL (CTA) value chain from China to East Africa has been influenced by China’s excess capacity, lower labor costs, duty-free incentives for exports to the US under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and its related Third-Country Fabric...

The online clothing businesses have seen a considerable rise in recent times, with a high and growing demand. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that play significant roles in creating purchase intention towards the online clothing products in Bangladesh. Secondary research...

There is a growing trend of global apparel companies adopting supply chain transparency starting with publishing the names, addresses, and other important information about factories manufacturing their branded products. This transparency is a powerful tool for promoting corporate accountability...

Consumption of luxurious products has three objectives namely the creation of identity, the sustainability of identity, and the presentation of socio-economic status (Wattanasuwan, 2005). With the change in Indian demographics, the absolute change in customer's tastes and preferences have been...

COVID-19, known as a pandemic, affects the global economy. ILO declared this virus as a labor market and economic crisis. This study has been conducted for understanding the effect of COVID-19 on the apparel industry and the apparel manufacturing workers. This is a descriptive study, following...

This research paper examines the holiday effects presence on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which is a major Indian stock exchange. The textile and clothing industry in India is one of the most important producers in the world, but also the second exporter of textile and apparel globally. The...

This dissertation examines the psychological determinants for reduced clothing consumption, which is understood as one example of urgently needed behavioural change to mitigate climate change. It investigates how these determinants can be addressed with an intervention strategy to achieve a...

Nowadays, Internet has become one part of Thai social life. People are using the internet to access or search information on the website. They also use e-commerce to buy or sell the products and services over the Internet by using the web browser. Now, people no need to go out to purchase the...

The purpose of this Research is to propose and test a model to better understand brand equity. It seeks to investigate the effects of this construct on consumers' responses using data from Khaadi consumers from different outlets located in Karachi. Sample size of 409 respondent collected and...

This dissertation examines the psychological determinants for reduced clothing consumption, which is understood as one example of urgently needed behavioural change to mitigate climate change. It investigates how these determinants can be addressed with an intervention strategy to achieve a...

We analyzed India's export competitiveness in the textiles and clothing (T&C) sector in the United States. The T&C industry is traditionally important for the Indian economy due to its significant contribution to export, employment, and industrial production. However, the competition in the...

Export oriented clothing sector in Bangladesh, popularly referred to as the Ready-Made Garments (RMG) industry is one of the heavily utilized sourcing hubs for the international clothing retailers and brands. Most of the international retail chains have a local sourcing office tasked with...

This paper presents a mathematical programming model for dynamic cell formation to minimize changeover-related costs (i.e., machine relocation costs and machine setup cost) and inter-cell material handling cost to cope with the volatile production environments in apparel manufacturing industry....

Purpose of the article: The Ready-Made Garment (RMG) industry remains the most crucial segment of Bangladesh's economy besides the agricultural sector in terms of foreign currency earning via export and employment generation. Several international studies predict that Bangladesh will be the next...

This paper estimates the impact of market access liberalization in high-income countries on sub-Saharan African exports. The methodology exploits the large reduction in trade barriers that was induced by three unilateral trade liberalization initiatives: (1) the dismantling of the Multi-Fiber...

Internet has played a significant role in our daily life from communicating to distant places through emails, video calls, online chats, social networking across the globe to playing games with others along with purchasing the goods or services through electronic media. There are several reasons...