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Innovazione, reti di comunicazione e di competenze. Elda Cecchele, Roberta di Camerino e gli artigiani della campagna veneta
Inguanotto, Irina; Tattara, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
fashion clothing and accessories in the 50s and 60s. The Laboratorio supplied many important Italian stylists, in particular … international fashion demand from the very well known firm Roberta di Camerino. In this network the Laboratorio was a knowledge … transimitter, a positive interpreter of the fashion demand and an active finance intermediator. In some occasions Elda Cecchele …
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Elda Pavan Cecchele: biografia di una tessitrice (1915-1998)
Inguanotto, Irina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
eighthies of last Century. She produced very elegant textiles for famous Italian fashion designers, as Giuliana di Camerino …
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Preventing Factory Fires through Contracts: Case study of Garment Factories in Bangladesh
Sato, Hideki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Following a multi-decade history of lethal fires in the Bangladeshi garment industry, Sato (2012) proposed a contract framework that encourages manufacturers to adopt measures that reduce loss of life. Apart from the humanitarian imperative, the manufacturer has an incentive to sign the contract...
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An Expository Analysis on Environmental Compliance of Indian Leather Industry
Roy, Chandan Roy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Indian Leather industry is recognized as the most promising foreign exchange earning sector since early ‘70s of the previous century. In terms of percentage share, leather export earnings accounted for 8% of the total foreign exchange earning sector, even in 1998-99, when the first...
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Consumption style among young adults toward their shopping behavior:an empirical study in Pakistan
Azam, Rehan; Muhammad, Danish; Syed Akbar, Suleman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
females are more shopping influenced, fashion conscious, recreational, and confused over-choice as compare to males whereas …
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Creative accounting in the British Industrial Revolution: Cotton manufacturers and the ‘Ten Hours’ Movement.
Toms, Steven; Shepherd, Alice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, accounting was enlisted by the manufacturers’ interest to resist demands, led by the ‘Ten hours’ movement, for limiting the working day. In contrast to much of the prior literature, which...
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Trade sustainability impact assessment (SIA) on the comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada: Final report
Kirkpatrick, Colin; Raihan, Selim; Bleser, Adam; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Commissioned by the European Commission, the Final Report for the EU-Canada Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) provides a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of trade liberalisation under CETA. The analysis...
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The globalisation in the clothing sector and its implications for work organisation: a view from the Portuguese case
Moniz, António; Paulos, Margarida Ramires - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The clothing sector in Portugal is still seen, in many aspects as a traditional sector with some average characteristics, such as: low level of qualifications, less flexible labour legislation and stronger unionisation, very low salaries and low capability of investment in innovation and new...
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The anti-red shift – to the 'Dark Side': Colour changes in Flemish luxury woollens, 1300 - 1550
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This study documents, though it cannot fully explain, the striking shift in the spectrum of colour patterns in woollen textiles, from those of the Black Death era in the mid to late fourteenth century to those of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century, in the southern Low...
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Were British Cotton Entrepreneurs Technologically Backward? Firm-Level Evidence on the Adoption of Ring-Spinning.
Ciliberto, Federico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
I study the slow adoption of ring-spinning in Great Britain's cotton industry at the end of the 19th century, which has been used as evidence of British entrepreneurs' declining efficiency and conservatism (Musson [1959], Aldcroft, [1964], Lazonick [1981, 1981b]). To this purpose I use...
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