The effects of Sino-US and Sino-EU safeguard agreements on US, Chinese and world cotton and textile sectors are investigated using a partial equilibrium model. The effects are compared to a free trade scenario under the provisions of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. The two safeguard...

As an attempt to address the gap in the literature on linking the history of textile industry in India to the current policies and structure of the industry, this paper develops a synthesis of various studies that discuss about the historical and contemporary issues in Indian textile industry....

The current dynamic environment demands all organizations to change – both radically and incrementally. Sustainable development cannot happen without innovations. It is very essential for an organization to change the way it operates and also change the products and services it provides....

Concentrating on three Dutch cities that once had an important textile industry, this study discusses the reasons for the decline of the industry and the responses by firms and other relevant actors. Reasons and responses differed between cities. Therefore, general explanations of the decline of...

This paper examines the main measures taken to stimulate textile workers during the years of “War Communism” and the New Economic Policy and identifies the dynamics of the roles of the main elements of the labour stimulation system (compensation, coercion, and commitment). We discover what...

It is common knowledge that the nature of products is a crucial determinant of firms’ innovative activities. Thus products which are fairly unchanging in nature and embody low levels of innovations are viewed as being largely the result of process innovation as opposed to product innovation...

Vellore Arthi, Brian Beach and W. Walker Hanlon (2022) investigate the effect of the Lancashire Cotton Famine on mortality, accounting for the migration response to the downturn. They use difference-in-differences to estimate the effect of the cotton famine on mortality. To account for the...