Fiber, Fingers, and Code: Manufacturing Software and Seamlessness in the Garment Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 152747641989736
Author(s):  
Anne Pasek ◽  
Nicole Starosielski
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Garment Industry ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Design Element ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Commodity Production ◽  
Embodied Communication ◽  
Manufacturing Software ◽  
Industrial Software

This article describes how software is imagined and used to disrupt garment industry practices. Drawing from interviews, fieldwork, and discourse analysis of marketing from two companies, Stoll and Resonance, we argue that software is integral to the creation of a new kind of designer, a “digital craftsman,” that directly interfaces with a new kind of supply chain. This interaction is defined by its “seamlessness”—what we describe as both an emergent technical design element and an imaginary of software-enabled manufacturing free from friction between sites of concept development and its material execution. Counter to this imaginary, we mobilize the “tactile grammar” of seams to foreground the role of embodied communication and labor practices in shaping software-defined industrial futures. Studying the connections between fiber, fingers, and code, this article opens up new lines of inquiry into industrial software and into the links between media production and larger spheres of commodity production.

The Role of Contracts in the Organic Supply Chain: 2004-2007

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Dimitri ◽  
Lydia Oberholtzer ◽  
Michelle Wittenberger
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain

Capitalisms

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
Commodity Production ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Small Producers ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth century onwards, and argues that capitalism was neither a monolithic entity nor exclusively an economic phenomenon confined to the West. Looking at regions as diverse as England, South America, Russia, North Africa, and East, South, West, and Southeast Asia, the book explores the plurality of developments across time and space. The chapters analyse aspects such as historical conjunctures, commodity production and distribution, circulation of knowledge and personnel, and the role of mercantile capital, small producers, and force—all the while stressing the necessity to think beyond present-day national boundaries. The book argues that the multiple histories of capitalism can be better understood from a trans-regional, intercontinental, and interconnected perspective.

Optimal innovation investment: the role of subsidy schemes and supply chain channel power structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 107291
Author(s):  
Chaofan Li ◽  
Qiliang Liu ◽  
Pin Zhou ◽  
Hongjun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Channel Power

Research on the influence of relation embeddedness on innovation performance of manufacturing supply chain alliances using expert fuzzy rule –intermediary role of shared mental model

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Guo Lifang ◽  
Cui Yuwen ◽  
Wu Yamin ◽  
Ma Jiaqi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Fuzzy Rule ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Shared Mental Model ◽  
Rule Based System ◽  
Manufacturing Supply Chain ◽  
Intermediary Role

The innovation and development of manufacturing supply chain alliance is an important way for enterprises to meet the increasing market demand and maintain the competitive advantage. From the perspective of embeddedness, the research model of relation embeddedness on innovation performance of manufacturing supply chain was constructed based on AMOS. Shared mental model was selected as intermediary variable to study the influence of relation embeddedness, shared mental model and innovation performance of manufacturing supply chain alliances. Expert fuzzy rule based system is utilized for measuring the performance of manufacturing supply chain alliances. The conclusion shows that relation embeddedness is significantly positive shared mental model and innovation performance. Shared mental model is positively affects alliance innovation performance and plays a part of intermediary role between relational embedding and alliance innovation performance. Practice implicates that enhance the level of relation embeddedness can promote the formation of shared mental model and improve the innovation performance of manufacturing supply chain alliance.

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