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Factors driving online apparel shopping in South Africa [PDF]
The Retail and Marketing Review, 2016 This article seeks to examine factors that affect consumer attitudes and intentions towards online apparel shopping in South Africa. This is achieved by testing Monsuwé et al.’s (2004) expanded version of the well-known Technology Acceptance Model, which
G J Lee, T Barnes
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Global Labour Journal, 2013 Ensuring a healthy working environment in the apparel sector is advocated by various multi-stakeholder initiatives and retailers because of apparent concerns for the health and welfare of workers.
Kanchana Ruwanpura
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue +2 more
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Engineering ReportsThe study explores how digitalization together with lean manufacturing techniques influences operational performance within the apparel sector while highlighting Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) as a critical indicator of performance.
Bülent Koç, Selin Hanife Eryürük
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Female Earnings in the Apparel Industry Post-MFA: Evidence From Pakistan
SAGE Open, 2020 One of the major worries vis-à-vis the phasing out of the multifiber arrangements (MFA)/agreement on textile and clothing (ATC) in 2005 was that the textile and apparel (T&A) production would shift from the developed to the developing countries and have ...
Jabbar Ul-Haq +3 more
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Axioms, 2021 The apparel and textile industry are known as a key sector in the structure of many economies around the world. In particular, the influence of foreign outsourcing manufacturers on textile supply chains has been recognized for decades.
Chia-Nan Wang +2 more
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Agile Integrated Facilities Maintenance Approach to Apparel Sector
Procedia Manufacturing, 2018 Abstract Facilities managers in apparel sector face numerous uncertainties due to the unpredictable nature of facilities maintenance. In this context, apparel industry practitioners urge for an effective facilities maintenance strategy to minimize uncertainty and opt to adopt strategic changes in maintenance approaches in recent past.
Chamini Thenuwara, Y.G. Sandanayake
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Sector Wide Solutions for the Sports Shoe and Apparel Industry in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2009 This document sets out sector-wide solutions for the sports shoe and apparel industry in Indonesia. These solutions are put forward by Oxfam Australia, the Clean Clothes Campaign and a network of labor rights groups worldwide (which include consumer ...
Clean Clothes Campaign
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Circular Business Models in Textiles and Apparel Sector in Slovakia
, 2020 The circular economy is characterized as regenerative economy that aims to preserve the greatest value of products and materials. Currently, the transition to the circular economy is not only a necessity, but it gradually becomes a social and economic ...
F. Daňo, P. Drábik, E. Hanuláková
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