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Zara, The Global Fast Fashion Pioneer From Spain, Hibah Ahmad
Zara, The Global Fast Fashion Pioneer From Spain, Hibah Ahmad
Journal of Global Awareness
Zara, a renowned fashion retailer, has gained a reputation for its innovative approach to global supply chain management. Zara is committed to providing affordable luxury clothing, home décor, accessories, and footwear. The company’s unique business model, characterizing them as “fast fashion,” allows them to continuously change their product lines to reflect the consumer market. Their incredibly fast turnaround time and affordable costs for modern and trendy pieces can create value for their customers while keeping inventory costs low. Overall, Zara’s supply chain practices reflect their success as a powerhouse in a highly competitive fashion industry.
The Digital Global Supply Chain: The Growing Case For Blockchain Technology Expansion Within Global Supply Chain, Jonathan Chichoni, Scott Webb
The Digital Global Supply Chain: The Growing Case For Blockchain Technology Expansion Within Global Supply Chain, Jonathan Chichoni, Scott Webb
Marriott Student Review
In a competitive global market place, technology adoption and application in supply chain is becoming increasingly important as companies seek to acquire competitive advantages. Since blockchain’s advent to the global stage of modern disruptive technologies, several questions remain unanswered pertaining to the benefits that blockchain adoption poses to global supply chains. I apply a typology analysis to a corpus of company filings, press releases and industry studies to better understand the reasons for which global supply chains industry wide are adopting blockchain technology and the specific benefits which they seek to exploit through the use of blockchain. I characterize the …
Pitfalls Of Over-Legalization: When The Law Crowds Out And Spills Over, Mark Kawakami
Pitfalls Of Over-Legalization: When The Law Crowds Out And Spills Over, Mark Kawakami
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
While some academics argue that enforcing voluntary corporate codes of conduct with private law backed sanctions can improve the working conditions of marginalized workers in the global supply chain, there are various risks associated with this "legalization" process. Relying on evidence from the fields of sociology, psychology, and evolutionary anthropology, this contribution will discuss how external incentives like threats of legal sanctions can actually be detrimental to the intrinsic motivations of companies that want to be socially responsible. This paper will also analyze how the crowding out effect and the spillover effect that come with legalizing otherwise voluntary norms could …