Search for dissertations about: "Fashion Management"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 65 swedish dissertations containing the words Fashion Management.

  2. 6. Dedicated Followers of Fashion : An Economic Geographic Analysis of the Swedish Fashion Industry

    Author : Atle Hauge; Anders Malmberg; Dominic Power; Louise Crewe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Social and economic geography; fashion industry; economic geography; branding; industrial system; symbolic value; cool; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : In fashion, as in the rest of the economy, the globalisation of taste, power and production now plays a major role. The industry is dominated by fashion capitals like Paris, London or New York, populated by star designers like Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld or Jean-Paul Gaultier and controlled through MNC giants like Prada, Gucci, DKNY and Dior, who together influence consumer preferences on a global scale. READ MORE

  4. 7. Managing management innovations: Contextual complexity and the pursuit of improvements in healthcare

    Author : Christian Colldén; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; complexity; action research; quality management; value-based health care; learning health systems; healthcare management; logics; psychiatry; quality improvement; management innovations; value configurations;

    Abstract : In a context characterised by complexity and conflicting demands, healthcare managers at a meso-level struggle to pursue improvements in the quality and efficiency of care operations. An influential approach on how to pursue improvements is quality management (QM). READ MORE

  5. 8. Local Fashionalities : Växbo Lin and WomenWeave

    Author : David Goldsmith; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Slow Fashion; Textiles; Sustainability; Local Fashion; Small Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Design Management; Sustainable Development; Textiles and fashion; Textiles and Fashion General ; Textil och mode generell ;

    Abstract : Global Fashion, via the logic of high-speed, large-scale industrial production and anachronistic high-volume consumption habits, causes significant social and environmental damage. Local Fashion is understood as part of the Slow Fashion movement that aims to change the functions of fashion so that they support or lead the quest to flourish within known human and planetary boundaries. READ MORE

  6. 9. Food and Fashion : Water Management and Collective Action among Irrigation Farmers and Textile Industrialists in South India

    Author : Anna Blomqvist (Jonsson); Jan Lundqvist; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Water in nature and society; Vatten i natur och samhälle;

    Abstract : In recent years, much ofthe political debate in the West, East aud South has focused on the decentralization of responsibilities from the state to private enterprises and NGOs. But what potential is there for local communities to create their own govenlance structures able to deal with issues up till recently seen as the responsibility of the state? In this thesis, answer to this question is sought by analyzing two case studies from the semi-arid Coimbatore-region in South India from an institutionai perspective. READ MORE

  7. 10. The Savage and the Designed : Robert Wilson and Vivienne Westwood as Artistic Managers

    Author : Clemens Thornquist; Pierre Guillet de Monthoux; Lisbeth Svengren Holm; Chris Steyaert; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : art management; design management; design methodology; design; fashion; intuition;

    Abstract : This work deals with the management of systematized and collaborative artistic design processes, driven by an auteur. It is a critique of the dominant design management discourse as it identifies three critical issues in the discourse leading to a dilemma in the management of such a collaborative auteur-driven process, (i) a static and institutionalized concept of identity, (ii) a focus on a predetermined direction, (iii) a predominant employment of deterministic design methods. READ MORE