257 research outputs found
Legitimate vs illegitimate: the luxury supply chain and its doppelganger
No full textPurpose – The increase in international trade, the advances in technology, the growing importance
of the emerging markets are the main factors that have contributed to the explosion of counterfeiting
experienced in recent years, estimated to be valued at about 5-7 per cent of the world trade. The luxury
industry in Italy has been particularly hard hit and most brands nowadays are urgently looking for
demand-side and supply-side strategies to track and control the phenomenon. The aim of this paper is
to provide a supply chain view of counterfeiting and illegitimate trade phenomena, in a supply chain
risk management perspective, to define and illuminate the interaction of the legitimate and the
illegitimate supply chains.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper introduces the LISC model to represent and include
all the illegitimate trade phenomena under analysis such as pure counterfeiting, factory overruns, grey
and parallel market, supply chain infiltrations, product diversion and sale of stolen goods
Findings – The interrelations between legitimate and illegitimate supply chains are crucial to
approach counterfeiting issue and define which illegitimate trade paths are more harmful to companies
and customers.
Research limitations/implications – The first limitation of the work is that the illegitimate trade
categories defined in this paper mainly rely on data and phenomena collected from secondary sources
that have not yet been directly observed by the authors. The second one is that a specific focus on
high-end fashion industry was employed throughout this work: further analysis for evaluating the
applicability and the significance of the illegitimate trade in other industries is still pending. The final
limitation stems from the fact that it will be necessary to investigate the implications and the
applicability of the model to the illegitimate on-line trade.
Practical implications – During the course of the MI-FIDO project, the model and the selection
rules identified for illegitimate trade family classification were used as a basis for defining the rules for
anomalies detection to be included in a “track and trace” system developed the project team currently
under with a major Italian fashion brand.
Originality/value – To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first work that attempts to present a
concise and systematic approach to luxury illegitimate trade from a supply chain perspective.
Understanding which legitimate-illegitimate supply chain interactions are the most damaging will
help fashion luxury and other industries to battle the counterfeiting phenomenon more effectivel
Still in fashion?: a study on Facebook usage
No full textThe authors investigate the current state and future prospects of Facebook usage
by means of data that they have collected using a survey at an Italian University. The authors
show that usage is unaffected by how long users have used Facebook. The authors also
examine a number of plausible determinants eventually showing that age, network size, and
perceived usefulness all play an important part in explaining usage. Surprisingly, perceived
privacy does not
Legitimate vs illegitimate: the fashion supply chain and its doppelganger
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The responsiveness of Italian plants: determinants and dimensions
No full textThe responsiveness of Italian plants: determinants and dimension
Interview with Nick Papadimitriou
Get PDFNick Papadimitriou is a British author, whose widely acclaimed novel Scarp was published in 2013. He is also the author of Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barnet, Finchley and Hendon (2009). Papadimitriou designed the Middlesex County Council website in 2007, and in the same year he helped provide material for Will Self’s The Book of Dave. in 2009, John Rogers made a film on Papadimitriou’s life and thought, called The London Perambulator. From 2009 to 2011, along with Rogers, Papadimitriou hosted Ventures and Adventures in Topography, a radio show on Resonance FM. Papadimitriou calls his walks and writing ‘deep topography,’ and is in turn described by his professional colleagues as a ‘deep topographer’, distinguishing his field of research and literature from ongoing trends of psychogeography.
This interview was conducted on a rainy afternoon, in a small café at Golders Green, near Hampstead Heath, in London
The responsiveness of italian small-to-medium sized plants: dimensions and determinants
No full textThis paper presents a quantitative study carried out on more than 200 manufacturing plants located in Italy. The study aimed to explore whether small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Italy are more responsive than large enterprises and determine what are the levers that these enterprises would employ to achieve their responsiveness. Logistic responsiveness has been considered a key driver of competitiveness. Several studies have suggested that company’s size is a major determinant of responsiveness and that SMEs have both strengths and weaknesses that influence their ability to promptly react to customer needs. The evidence of this study indicates that SMEs are more responsive than large companies in terms of delivery. This performance advantage is mainly the result of a rather narrow product range and a simpler product structure that allows SMEs to enjoy shorter manufacturing and assembly lead times. On the other hand, this study also shows that SMEs perform worse than large enterprises with respect to longer set-up times
The anti-counterfeiting potential of RFID technologies in the fashion supply chain
No full textThe aim of this paper is to explore the potential of RFID technology in identifying and preventing illegitimate
trade throughout the fashion supply chain via item-level traceability in the context of the Made-in-Italy Fashion
Identity and Originality (MI-FIDO) project. We review the literature on illegitimate trade, fashion supply chain
management, and RFID anti-counterfeiting. We introduce LISC, a supply chain-based illegitimate trade
classification model that enables us to track counterfeiting, factory overruns, parallel trading, and the sale of
stolen goods and to assess the impact of each such event on companies, as well as to assess the potential of RFID
technology in thwarting these events. Finally, we present the case of Versace Group: the Firm recently launched
an anti-counterfeiting initiative with the ultimate goal of creating a “Fashion Passport” to track and certify the
authenticity their garments. The results show significant potential for RFID technology to fight illegitimate trade
in the fashion industry especially for high ticket value items
"Asset Poverty in The United States: Its Persistence in an Expansionary Economy"
Get PDFFrom this paper's Preface, by Dr. Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, President: Economic growth and a rising stock market in the 1990s gave the impression that everyone was accumulating wealth and asset poverty rates were declining. The impression was supported by the official, income-based poverty measure, which exhibited a sharp decline. According to Senior Scholar Edward N. Wolff and Research Scholar Asena Caner, poverty measures should include wealth as well as income. Their study of asset poverty in the United States between 1984 and 1999 focuses on the lower end of the wealth distribution and shows that asset poverty rates did not decline during the period studied, and that the severity of poverty increased. It also shows that asset poverty is much more persistent than income poverty.
The Course and Predictors of Patient Participation in Inpatient Occupational Therapy: Understanding the Impact on Outcomes and Implementation Barriers
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
Patient participation (engagement) is a keystone of patient-centered care. This study provided evidence to support how active participation in occupational therapy would enhance patient outcomes at discharge and 1 yr postinjury. We also identified barriers to patient participation in rehabilitation.
Primary Author and Speaker: Alex Wong
Contributing Authors: Christina Papadimitriou, Arielle Goldsmith, Katrina Christopher, Gale Whiteneck, Anne Deutsch, Eric Lenze, Allen W. Heinemann</jats:p
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