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The textile industries are generally seen, within the advanced industrial countries, as traditional industries, i.e. as industries with structural weaknesses. They are viewed as being unable to cope satisfactorily with the deep changes occurring in their competitive environment and, thus, as typical examples of industries going through passive and painful adjustment processes. While the adjustment processes have indeed been difficult and have raised many problems in terms of job losses, failures and capital losses, the image thus conveyed is also false, because it ignores the transformations which have taken place, within those industries, as concerns materials, techniques, products, markets, etc., and which have profoundly affected their organization and structure.
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Boussemart, B., De Bandt, J. (1993). The Textile Industry: Widely Varying Structures. In: Müller-Warmuth, W., Schöllhorn, R. (eds) Progress in Intercalation Research. Studies in Industrial Organization, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1733-3_8
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