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Turkishization of a Chinese apparel firm: fast fashion, regionalisation and the shift from global supplier to new end markets

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  • Shengjun Zhu
  • John Pickles

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This paper cautions against fetishising geographical proximity in analyses of fast fashion apparel production networks. Using a detailed case study of one former state-owned domestically oriented Chinese apparel producer, we show how initial advantages as a large low-cost exporter have—with increased costs and competition from southeast Asia—led to deepened relations with, and learning from, its Turkish partners to develop a cost competitive export profile based on fast-fashion-at-a-distance, which in turn has been leveraged into new domestic end markets in China, a process we (and the firm) call ‘Turkishization’.

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  • Shengjun Zhu & John Pickles, 2015. "Turkishization of a Chinese apparel firm: fast fashion, regionalisation and the shift from global supplier to new end markets," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 8(3), pages 537-553.
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