Restructuring Strategies: Global Pressures, Local Responses

Ian Taplin and Jonathan Winterton

Chapter 7 in Organizational Strategy and Technological Adaptation to Global Change, 1998, pp 99-119 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Globalization, coupled with deregulation, with the ending of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (M FA) has presented clothing manufacturers in the high-wage countries with intensified competition from enterprises in the low-wage economies. The globalization of economic activity (Taylor and Thrift, 1986) revealed the vulnerability of labour-intensive mass production industries to imports from low-wage economies, since Taylorist production is easily replicated in newly-industrialized countries (Dicken, 1992). Clothing manufacture in the high-wage economies, often viewed as a ‘sunset industry’, is undergoing rapid restructuring through factory closures and company downsizing, while enterprises in the newly-industrialized low-wage countries are attracted to garment manufacture by the relatively low barriers to entry. While the outcome is an intensification of the new international division of labour, the local responses to the changes in the global clothing marketplace involve a range of restructuring processes within the clothing industries in high-wage economies.

Keywords: Former Soviet Union; Short Lead Time; Clothing Industry; Labour Intensive Industry; Market Fragmentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14602-4_8

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