From manufacturing garments for ready-to-wear to designing collections for fast fashion: Evidence from Turkey

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 146-162

  Tokatli, Nebahat ^a   Kizilgün, Ömür ^b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; EXPORT; GARMENT INDUSTRY; MANUFACTURING; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE FLOW;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TURKEY; USSR;

EID: 65949095643     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4081     Document Type: Article

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