Identifying industrial clusters based on the analysis of business ties: A case of the textile industry

To present great environmental pressure from energy consumption during textile production, this paper calculates the energy footprint (EFP) of Shaoxing’s textile industry, from 2005 to 2018. Moreover, this study analyzes the relationship between Shaoxing’s textile industry energy consumption and economic development by using decoupling theory. Furthermore, the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index decomposition method was employed to investigate the main factors that affect the EFP of Shaoxing’s textile industry. Research results show the following: (1) The growth rate of the total output value of Shaoxing’s textile industry was greater than the growth rate of the EFP, from 2005 to 2007. Thus, the decoupling state showed a weak decoupling, and EFP intensity decreased. (2) The EFP and economic growth were mainly based on the strong decoupling of Shaoxing’s textile industry from 2008 to 2015 (except for 2011), and EFP intensity declined further. (3) Economic recession in the textile industry was severe in Shaoxing, from 2016 to 2018, and the EFP also showed a downward trend. The state of decoupling appeared as a recessive decoupling (2016) and a weak negative decoupling (2017 and 2018), and EFP intensity first increased and then decreased. (4) The total effect of the factors affecting the EFP of the textile industry in Shaoxing demonstrated a pulling trend, and industrial scale played a significant role in driving the EFP. The energy consumption intensity effect contributed the largest restraint. This paper fills in the gaps in the environmental regulation means and methods of pillar industrial clusters in specific regions.

Download Full-text

The Strategic Study on Shanghai Holding Group Leading the Development of Industrial Clusters

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.796.229 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 796 ◽

pp. 229-233

Author(s):

Han Yan Liu ◽

Chang Kuan Gao ◽

Shou Zhong Hu

Keyword(s):

Textile Industry ◽

Industrial Clusters ◽

Clothing Industry ◽

Improvement Strategy ◽

Cluster Development ◽

Leading Role ◽

Cluster Strategy ◽

Changing Times ◽

Strategic Study ◽

Leading Enterprises

Shanghai textile holding group (Shangtex for short) is one of the leading enterprises in the Shanghai textile industry ,as well as the largest state-owned enterprise, it plays a central role as a "bellwether" in the whole industry. In this paper , the study on the leading role of Shangtex suggests that it is an inevitable choice to make Shangtex as the leader to guide the development of cluster strategy if Shanghai textile clothing industry wants to tag on the changing times,submit to the trend of industries development, go on the routing of industrial cluster, and enhance the overall competitiveness. so that it can drive the common development of the whole Shanghai textile clothing industry. secondly, through the quantitative evaluation and status analysis about the degree of cluster development of the Shangtex, we make further improvement strategy for cluster development of Shangtex.

Download Full-text

Novel Stage Decorations-A New Branch of Textile Industry

Scientific American ◽

10.1038/scientificamerican11051910-358a ◽

1910 ◽

Vol 103 (19) ◽

pp. 358-358

Author(s):

Arthur H. J. Keane

Keyword(s):

Textile Industry

Download Full-text

Collective Resource Mobilisation for Economic Survival within the Kurdish and Turkish Communities in London

BORDER CROSSING ◽

10.33182/bc.v6i2.492 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 219-239

Author(s):

Olgu Karan

Keyword(s):

Small Business ◽

Textile Industry ◽

Economic Capital ◽

Small Business Owners ◽

Coffee Shop ◽

Business Ownership ◽

Economic Survival ◽

Collective Resource ◽

Resource Mobilisation ◽

Depth Interviews

This paper proposes a new conceptual framework in understanding the dynamics within the Kurdish and Turkish (KT) owned firms in London by utilising Charles Tilly’s work concerning collective resource mobilisation. Drawing on 60 in-depth interviews with restaurant, off-licence, kebab-shop, coffee-shop, supermarket, wholesaler owners and various community organisations, the paper sheds light upon the questions of why and how the KT communities in London moved into, and are over represented and why Turkish Cypriots are absent in small business ownership. The re-search illustrates that members of the KT communities aligned in their interests to become small business owners after the demise of textile industry in the midst of 1990s in London. The interest alignment in small business ownership required activation of various forms of capital and transposition of social, cultural and economic capital into one another.

Download Full-text