Innovation and Market-Driven Management in Fast Fashion Companies

Innovation and Market-Driven Management in Fast Fashion Companies

In hyper-competitive markets, innovation is critical for the growth of marketdriven companies. An examination of case studies of highly competitive global companies in the fast fashion sector, reveals that detailed understanding of the market, deriving from direct management of their stores, enables Zara, Gap and H&M to develop an innovation management capability. This is a fundamental competit...

Market-Driven Management in Fashion and Luxury Industries

The Market-Driven Management requires that the continuous attention to customers is combined to constant and direct competition in all reference markets. The Market-Driven Management, in the specific context of companies competing in the fashion and luxury industries can be traced back to three main factors: a growing attention to brand equity; the reinforcement of the direct relationships with...

Supply Chain Management in Fast Fashion

Coevolution in management fashion: an agent-based model of consultant-driven innovation.

The rise of management consultancy has been accompanied by increasingly marked faddish cycles in management techniques, but the mechanisms that underlie this relationship are not well understood. The authors develop a simple agent-based framework that models innovation adoption and abandonment on both the supply and demand sides. In opposition to conceptions of consultants as rhetorical wizards...

Promoting Innovation in Hospitality Companies through Human Resource Management Practices

In this study, we investigate how hospitality companies can promote incremental and radical innovation through human resource management practices (i.e., selection and training). Data from 196 independent hotels and restaurants operating in the People’s Republic of China show that hiring multi-skilled core customer-contact employees and training core customer-contact employees for multiple skil...