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Circular economy in the Italian fashion sector – a new, post-pandemic state of the art
Full text linkThe purpose of the present paper is to investigate the development of circular economy in the Italian Fashion-Luxury industry. The research takes into consideration 4 different tiers of the fashion supply chain, namely textile companies, brand owners, retailers and final consumers. Albeit being an exploratory research, the extensive coverage of the supply chain allows to check the consistency of the approaches used upstream with the requests coming from the market, as well as assessing the alignment in terms of maturity at the various tiers of the Supply Chain
Customer influence on supply chain management strategies: An exploratory investigation in the yacht industry
Full text linkPurpose: Customers influence companies’ operational strategies and supply chain (SC) processes. In this vein, signals coming from the market must be translated into proper strategies in terms of production and supply. The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding on how to transform customers’ expectations into SC decisions. The yacht industry, encompassing both technical and emotional peculiarities, becomes this study’s driven focus to interrogate the interrelationship between supply and demand. Design/methodology/approach: The study explores the luxury yacht industry through exploratory case studies conducted with eight companies operating in Italy. Findings: It was found that a wide range of factors influenced customers. That is to say, brand reputation, other brands’ involvement in the final product and emotional appeal were the most distinguishing characteristics identifying emotion-oriented customers. In this sense, companies serving such customers adjusted their SC strategies to channel a direct emotional impact. It was noticed that personalization was pivotal and companies were increasingly required to customize and create unique products to attract and further satisfy the customers. Thus, multiple sourcing strategies were often employed with an increasing number of suppliers to ensure that increasing material supply need would be met. As for performance-oriented companies, cost, quality and innovation capabilities emerged as key signals to be embedded in operations management. Companies serving performance-oriented customers were characterized by low product value and medium level of customization, and kept their core activities, including design and architecture, vertically integrated. In order to generate cost advantages without compromising product quality, single sourcing strategy was largely implemented. What the findings suggested is that the customization level and the product value were positively correlated. To illustrate, companies having more exclusive products were found allowing their customization and customer involvement in higher degrees. Originality/value: Due to a relatively unexplored nature of the phenomenon, this study opted for a method by which individual and collective reconstructions were explored in a not well-investigated area, that is, the luxury yacht industry
A classification model for formal high-end menswear retailers in Italy
Full text linkPurpose: Despite menswear is gaining a significant relevance in terms of retail sales, it represents a neglected topic within the academic literature. Therefore, this paper aims at providing a better understanding of the formal menswear market by developing a tailor-made classification model for the identification of retailers' clusters and at discovering the critical success factors (CSFs). Design/methodology/approach: This research looked at most formal high-end menswear retailers in Italy adopting a methodology based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process and multiple case studies. Thirty interviews were conducted with experts, managers and shopkeepers from case studies. Findings: The study develops for the first time a classification framework of formal high-end menswear retailers and a matching matrix to jointly analyse retailers' clusters and customer profiles in Italy. The results identify the CSFs pursued by menswear retailers and highlight the existence of four clusters of retailers (Differentiated Fashion Firms; Formal Menswear Leaders; Tailoring Firms and Luxury Brands) and seven customer profiles (Habitual Professionals, Special Events, Young People, Occasional Professionals, Foreigners, VIPs and Fashionistas). Originality/value: The formal high-end menswear represents one of the most traditional Italian heritage markets while being almost ignored in the academic literature. Thus, the value of this research lays in deepening our understanding of this market from the retailers' perspective, by providing for the first time a taxonomy of its players and contributing to identifying the CSFs and the main customer profiles
Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Luxury Cars: an empirical study
No full textLuxury cars represent an important segment of Luxury, and since vehicles are quite complex product with respect to “high-end furniture” “personal luxury goods” or “fine dining” they are quite peculiar from a business perspective. This research aims to understand whether there could be peculiar Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for luxury car manufacturers, and eventually know how they differ from the list of CSFs provided by literature for the general luxury market. Moreover, the study investigate whether there are possible distinct clusters of consumers which show a common pattern in valuing these CSFs. The study has been able to craft a new model where Critical Successful Factors for luxury cars are presented, meaning those characteristics essential for winning competition of other companies that also constitute as differentiators from the mass market vehicles. The validity of the model has has been tested on more than 400 real luxury car owners that confirmed the importance of the attributes included. Further analysis of the collected responses has allowed to identify five key factors that encapsulate the meaning of all the variables introduced. The factors identified are the following: technical aspects, social appeal, brand origin, uniqueness and innovation. Leveraging on these findings, it has been possible to structure the model in a new layout on two levels. On the first one there are only the five key factors and provide a macro perspective, while on the second level there is a group of CSFs for each factor describing luxury car characteristics with an additional level of detail. Interesting implications for academics as well as managers have been discussed, together with limitations and future suggestions for research
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business Luxury Supply Chain Management
No full textThis chapter focuses on supply chain management in the luxury sector. The concepts of supply chain and supply chain management are introduced first, with an overview of the most prominent scientific research works as well as industrial frameworks and methodologies; a discussion of luxury supply chain management in scientific literature follows. The central section of the chapter is dedicated to dissecting the anatomy of the typical luxury supply chain: first of all, it argues that there is simply no such a thing as ‘the typical luxury supply chain’, as the luxury industry is characterised by opposing trends; the section continues by illustrating how these opposing trends are moving companies into clusters which are internally homogeneous but significantly differing from one another. The chapter then illustrates some market trends that are increasing the complexity of supply chain management in luxury, followed by a brief discussion on how brands are reacting
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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