ABSTRACT

Strategic Fashion Management: Concepts, Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage is a highly accessible book providing a unique look into the strategic drivers of the dynamic and ever-growing fashion industry. Derived from the knowledge gap in quality strategic fashion management literature, this book blends theory with a variety of examples and uses 18 case studies to help bring to life contemporary topics faced by senior executives.

The analysis is highly global in nature and aims to accelerate the strategic skills required to navigate the industry and contribute to a firm’s growth. Using copious examples from across the world, this book provides in-depth discourse and progressive theoretical concepts and strategies which readers will be able to apply immediately to their studies or practices.

The book is particularly suitable for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying fashion management or marketing, as well as those on MBA and international business courses who wish to understand more about the fashion ecosystem. It is also designed to serve as an important reference for executives who are interested in conceptualising strategic issues that are pertinent to the industry.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

Why did this book come about?

chapter 1|15 pages

The business environment

Industry dynamics and value drivers

chapter 2|9 pages

Emerging markets

A new paradigm

chapter 3|15 pages

Strategy

Creating and capturing a competitive advantage

chapter 5|13 pages

Brand management

Leveraging the fundamentals

chapter 6|15 pages

Innovation-driven growth

The formula for success

chapter 7|23 pages

Mergers and acquisitions

Deal strategy, execution and integration

chapter 8|10 pages

Management and leadership

Approaches, styles and activities

chapter 9|16 pages

Culture and inclusion

Capabilities, diversity and action

chapter 10|9 pages

Work-life harmony

Strategies for successful assimilation

chapter 11|16 pages

The future of fashion

A new reality