Firm Entry and Institutional Lock-in: An Organizational Ecology Analysis of the Global Fashion Design Industry Export

@techreport{wentingfrenken08, abstract = {Few industries are more concentrated than the global fashion industry. We analyse the geography and evolution of the ready-to-wear fashion design industry by looking at the yearly entry rates following an organizational ecology approach. In contrast to earlier studies on manufacturing industries, we find that legitimation effects are local and competition effects are global. This result points to the rapid turnover of ideas in fashion on the one hand and the global demand for fashion apparel on the other hand. We attribute the decline of Paris in the post-war period to 'institutional lock-in', which prevented a ready-to-wear cluster to emerge as vested interested of haute couture designers were threatened. An extended organizational ecology model provides empirical support for this claim.}, author = {Wenting, Rik and Frenken, Koen}, citeulike-article-id = {2836941}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ideas.repec.org/p/egu/wpaper/0801.html}, keywords = {demography, fashionindustry, institutions}, month = {January}, posted-at = {2008-05-27 10:30:46}, priority = {0}, title = {Firm Entry and Institutional Lock-in: An Organizational Ecology Analysis of the Global Fashion Design Industry}, url = {http://ideas.repec.org/p/egu/wpaper/0801.html}, year = {2008} }

TY - RPRT ID - wentingfrenken08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2836941 N2 - Few industries are more concentrated than the global fashion industry. We analyse the geography and evolution of the ready-to-wear fashion design industry by looking at the yearly entry rates following an organizational ecology approach. In contrast to earlier studies on manufacturing industries, we find that legitimation effects are local and competition effects are global. This result points to the rapid turnover of ideas in fashion on the one hand and the global demand for fashion apparel on the other hand. We attribute the decline of Paris in the post-war period to 'institutional lock-in', which prevented a ready-to-wear cluster to emerge as vested interested of haute couture designers were threatened. An extended organizational ecology model provides empirical support for this claim. TI - Firm Entry and Institutional Lock-in: An Organizational Ecology Analysis of the Global Fashion Design Industry KW - demography KW - fashionindustry KW - institutions AU - Wenting, Rik AU - Frenken, Koen PY - 2008/01// UR - http://ideas.repec.org/p/egu/wpaper/0801.html ER -