Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1The business of fashion -- The fashion industry: An overview -- The impact of technology -- Influential designers and global fashion brands -- Case study: Burberry -- Chapter summary -- Checklist -- Exercise -- Interview: Jamie Huckbody...

Crossing borders and boundaries: the changing role of operationsThis special issue of the International Journal of Operations & ProductionManagement presents a selection of papers that were presented at the 7thInternational EurOMA Conference in Ghent, Belgium, in June 2000.

This paper investigates the impact of Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) and Research and Development (R&D) grants on firms' R&D investment using data from Belgian R&D-active firms over the past decade. Our empirical analysis robustly reveals a non-negligible crowding-out effect between the...