clothing market liberalisation. A number of analysts at national and international institutions have provided their assessments … level. Given the economic importance of the textile and clothing sector in some OECD and non-OECD countries and the … textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure …

A general outline of the functional and spatial characteristics of the clothing industry in Southern California is … region? Will it succeed in making the transition to the status of a major world center of fashion? I argue that the Southern … California clothing industry is potentially capable of rising to the latter challenge, though it remains strongly over …

imports from these countries, particularly of clothing, and would have little impact on prices, incomes or jobs in Australia. …

In this paper I intend to model a firm decision of entrance into a profitable fashion market where fashion results from … fashion market and that ii) when incumbent firm accommodates the other firm a la Cournot there is no pure strategy Nash … equilibrium. The properties of the model seem to be in accordance with the persistence in time of fashion brands. …

An expanded model of value in cooperative games is presented in which value has either a linear or a proportional mode … (1989, 1992) value have a linear mode and an input basis. The egalitarian value (Kalai and Samet (1985)) has a linear mode …

that offshore outsourcing of Mode 1 services raises no new analytical issues, contrary to what many fear. Thus, it leads to …Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to refer to … argue that clarity requires distinguishing among these various phenomena and define outsourcing explicitly as the services …

Outsourcing grew rapidly during the 1990s and has now become an accepted dimension of corporate strategy. While … outsourcing continues to grow in importance, the nature and focus of outsourcing is evolving. Historically, most outsourcing took … services, outsourcing is becoming increasingly cross- national and global. The growth of international outsourcing has …