International Sourcing and Sustainable Development through Industrial
Upgrading : The Case of Inter Organizational Control Practices developed
by French Clothing Retailers
Hugues Poissonnier
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Abstract
In this paper, the problem...
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International Sourcing and Sustainable Development through Industrial
Upgrading : The Case of Inter Organizational Control Practices developed
by French Clothing Retailers
Hugues Poissonnier
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Abstract
In this paper, the problem of sustainable development in the context of inter-organizational
relationships is investigated.
To do so, we focus our analysis on the link between international
sourcing practices and industrial upgrading opportunities offered to the suppliers and study the
case of the apparel industry which is one of the most globalised ones with different operations
being spread around different locations.
The importance of textiles and clothing for the trade
development of developing countries has been indeed widely described.
In a context of great competition, in which time, price and quality of the products are more and
more important, sourcing practices have evolved during the recent years.
Those evolutions can
be described in terms of sou
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