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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255022203321

Autore

Iwasaki Yoko

Titolo

Industrial Organization in Iran : The Weakly Organized System of the Iranian Apparel Industry / / by Yoko Iwasaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

981-10-4579-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (102 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Economics, , 2191-5504

Disciplina

302.35

Soggetti

Development economics

Industrial organization

Small business

Trade

Business

Commerce

Development Economics

Industrial Organization

Small Business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Outlook for Iran’s Apparel Industry -- 3 Characteristics of Apparel Producing Organization -- 4 Apparel Producing in Iran -- 5 Distribution Network of Bonak-dārs -- 6 The Apparel Producing Center after “Import Liberalization” -- 7 Conclusion -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on Iran to explore the question of how the nature of industrial organizations and the whole system they constitute can exert a great influence on an industry’s competitiveness and resilience. The author examines what happens if firms and companies participating in the manufacturing and distribution process of a certain product are not organized to a high degree and operate independently. The book begins with an inquiry into the historical environment of Iran’s apparel industry, which has never been stable. It then reveals the specific practices that enable firms to maintain their independent business, and



argues that the elastic state of the production and distribution system has worked for the survival of self-reliant member firms. The typical Iranian apparel firm persists in maintaining independent operations regardless of its size, a practice that is inimical to the development of long-lasting business relations with other firms as well as to vertical integration between firms, in all stages from production to distribution. A distinguishing feature of Iran’s apparel industry is that the member firms are barely organized compared with their counterparts in advanced industrialized countries. Despite such a weakly organized system, generally small-scale but self-reliant Iranian firms courageously persist in the face of the market’s difficulties. Superficially, it appears that Iran’s apparel market is being filled with Chinese goods, but the reality is somewhat different. Apparel firms that are currently doing business with China but are ready to terminate it at any time are taking advantage of newly emerging opportunities to ensure the survival of their own businesses. Reopening those businesses for domestic operations remains an ever-present possibility for them.