Beyond “Global Production Networks”: Australian Fashion Week’s Trans-sectoral Synergies
Weller, Sally Anne (2007) Beyond “Global Production Networks”: Australian Fashion Week’s Trans-sectoral Synergies. Working Paper. Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria.
Abstract
When studies of industrial organisation are informed by commodity chain, actor network or global production network theories and focus on tracing commodity flows, social networks or a combination of the two, they can easily overlook the less routine trans-sectoral associations that are crucial to the creation and realisation of value. This paper shifts attention to identifying the sites at which diverse specialisations meet to concentrate and amplify mutually reinforcing circuits of value. These valorisation processes are demonstrated in the case of Australian Fashion Week, an event in which multiple interests converge to synchronize different expressions of fashion ideas, actively construct fashion markets and enhance the value of a diverse range of fashionable commodities. Conceptualising these interconnected industries as components of a transsectoral fashion complex has implications for understanding regional development, world cities, production location and the manner in which production systems ‘touch down’ in different places.
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Item type | Monograph (Working Paper) |
URI | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/15955 |
DOI | Working Paper No. 33 |
Subjects | Historical > FOR Classification > 1402 Applied Economics Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) |
Keywords | global production networks, Australian Fashion Week, fashion markets, fashion commodity |
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