Title :
Building Country Image and Upgrading China´s Apparel Industry
Author :
Hongmei, Xi ; Jingyu, Wang
Author_Institution :
Manage. Sch., Shanghai Inst. of Foreign Trade, Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Country image, dimensioned by innovation, workmanship, design and prestige has become one of the competitive sources when products are sold in global markets. The paper examines the relationship between country image building and industrial upgrading, and explores ways to establish country image through apparel industrial upgrading efforts such as process upgrading, product upgrading, functional upgrading and intersect oral upgrading. Apparel industry is characterized by global production and regional clustering. Firms in China should leverage their linkages of global production networks to improve design, marketing and innovation capabilities, and at the same time integrate domestic apparel clusters into entire value chain and produce for internal markets. Successful apparel industrial upgrading in China will lead to country image building which helps Chinese brands go global.
Keywords :
globalisation; innovation management; production planning; China; apparel industry; country image; design; domestic apparel clusters; global markets; global production networks; industrial upgrading; innovation; marketing; regional clustering; value chain; workmanship; apparel industry; brand; country image; global production network; industrial upgrading;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kunming
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8829-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICIII.2010.415