November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 31m
English
One of the key SCM trends within the mid-market high street sector has been the vertical disintegration and outsourcing of the production function to a global network of independent subcontractors. The expansion of free trade following elimination of the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) – which governed the global trade in textiles and garments between 1974 and 2005, and imposed quotas on the amount developing countries could export to developed countries – resulted in a greater number of apparel producers across a wider variety of countries (Abernathy, Volpe and Weil, 2006). It was shown in Chapter 2 that the extent of outsourcing is strongly related to the ...
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