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This chapter investigates how Vietnamese export-oriented garment suppliers are coping with challenges from international integration. Garments are the largest manufactured export item of Vietnam, and the abolition of the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA) has resulted in increased international competition.
A companion paper entitled “Meeting the challenge of China: the Vietnamese garment industry in the post-MFA era” has been published in Global Networks (2011), co-authored with Kaoru Natsuda and John Thoburn. The paper is based on an earlier version of this chapter, but differs significantly as it uses additional data and information, and focuses on the Vietnamese garment industry in relation to the challenges posed by competition from China.
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Goto, K. (2013). Globalization and Development Strategies of Vietnamese Garment Suppliers: Production-Distribution Networks and Enterprise Performance. In: Sakata, S. (eds) Vietnam’s Economic Entities in Transition. IDE-JETRO Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137297143_5
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