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Fast Fashion Apparel Supply Chains

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In this chapter, we develop an oligopoly model for fashion supply chains in the case of differentiated products with the inclusion of environmental concerns and with supply chain network link time consumption functions. Each fashion firm seeks to maximize its profit, with generalized cost components, as well as to minimize its emissions throughout its supply chain with the latter criterion being weighted in an individual manner by each firm. A case study illustrates both the generality of the modeling framework as well as how the computational scheme can be used in practice to explore the effects of changes in the demand functions; in the total generalized cost and the total emission functions, as well as in the weights.

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  1. Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

    Anna Nagurney & Amir H. Masoumi

  2. Pamplin School of Business, University of Portland, Portland, OR, USA

    Min Yu

  3. College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, USA

    Ladimer S. Nagurney

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Nagurney, A., Yu, M., Masoumi, A.H., Nagurney, L.S. (2013). Fast Fashion Apparel Supply Chains. In: Networks Against Time. SpringerBriefs in Optimization. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6277-4_6

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