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Few industries are more concentrated than the global fashion industry. We analyse the geography and evolution of the … ready-to-wear fashion design industry by looking at the yearly entry rates following an organizational ecology approach. In … are global. This result points to the rapid turnover of ideas in fashion on the one hand and the global demand for fashion …
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presents results of franchising in the world fashion industry and examines the situation in Croatia and North Macedonia. As a …-providing companies. In the fashion and retail sectors, franchising is deeply embedded and represents one of the most obvious answers and … fashion brands in the region through franchising, especially their international expansion. Thus, we have investigated the …
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This book traces the development of the fashion industry, providing insight into the business and, in particular, its … interrelations with copyright law. The book explores how the greatest haute couture fashion designers also had a sense for business … the peculiarities of the fashion industry as a means of demonstrating the importance of intellectual property protection …
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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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Many successful franchise chains directly own a positive fraction of stores --- a structure referred to as plural form. We propose that this ownership structure is chosen as a commitment not to expropriate franchisees. The theoretical model is based on an empirical analysis of contract and...
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The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising …
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Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial and crisis implications and its perceived large expansion. But financial globalization has taken different forms over time. This paper examines two important concurrent dimensions of financial...
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This paper investigates whether privatization in emerging economies has a significant indirect effect on local stock market development through the resolution of political risk. We argue that a sustained privatization program represents a major political test that gradually resolves uncertainty...
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This paper examines global (mature market) and regional (emerging market) spillovers in local emerging stock markets. Tri-variate VAR GARCH(1,1)-in-mean models are estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs) in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The models capture a range of...
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This paper examines global (mature market) and regional (emerging market) spillovers in local emerging stock markets. Tri-variate VAR GARCH(1,1)-in-mean models are estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs) in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The models capture a range of...
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