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the supplier/buyer (second party) can justify their actions by quantifying various
benefits. On the contrary, for those companies which find that the benefits brought
by delegating QR functions to the “second party’’ are insignificant, they tend to
avoid implementing QR.
8.5 CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND
FUTURE RESEARCH
This research conducts a cross-regional analysis on the perceptions of QR, the extent
of QR implementation (QRI) and the approach to channel coordination under QR
strategy in the textile and apparel industry in Hong Kong, France and the United
States. We collected the opinions and