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1. Traditional fashion and textile supply chain: Concept to consumer -- 2. Challenges in the traditional fashion and textile supply chain -- 3. Fundamental Concepts of Lean and Agile Manufacturing -- 4. Lean Concept in Fashion and Textile Manufacturing -- 5. Standardized work in fashion industry. .

This book highlights the concepts of lean manufacturing that help to achieve the objectives of sustainability in a global competitive atmosphere. Lean can help to lower the manufacturing cost in the rising labour and material cost market. Lean is based on various fundamental concepts such as Kaizen, Kanban, Zidoka, 5S and Six Sigma, which aim at reducing process waste for efciency and productivity that are discussed in this book. In addition, the technological changes such as introduction of Internet technologies and Industry 4.0 are taken care by the lean concepts, which are also addressed in this book.

This book highlights the technology of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and its application in textile and garment manufacturing and supply chain management. It discusses the history, technology, and workings of RFID and types of RFID systems. It compares differences, advantages, and disadvantages of RFID and barcode technologies. It also covers application of RFID technology in textile and fashion manufacturing, supply chain, and retail, and RFID-based process control in textile and fashion manufacturing. It covers various applications of RFID starting from fibre manufacturing through yarn and fabric manufacturing; fabric chemical processing; garment manufacturing and quality control; and retail management. It offers case studies of RFID adoption by famous fashion brands detailing the competitive advantages and discusses various challenges faced and future directions of RFID technology.

Part One: Introduction -- 1. Fashion waste management problem and sustainability: A developing country perspective -- 2. Hazards of fashion and textile waste: Approaches for effective waste management -- Part Two: Waste management technologies in manufacturing -- 3. Management of spinning and weaving wastes -- 4. Management of wastes in garment manufacturing -- 5. Technologies for the management of wastewater generated in wet processing -- 6. Management of air quality -- Part Three: Retail and consumer waste management technologies -- 7. Packaging waste and their management technologies -- 8. End of life clothes and their management -- 9. Organizations and standards related to textile and fashion waste management and sustainability -- Part Four: Other waste management technologies -- 10. Automotive waste management technologies -- 11. Waste management in coated and laminated textiles -- 12. Management of protective clothing waste -- 13. Management of textile leather waste -- Part Five: Recycling-redesigning and degradation of composite products and bioplastics -- 14. Redesigning of fashion supply chain -- 15. Waste management strategies in fashion and textiles industry: Challenges are in governance, materials culture and design-centric -- 16. Fashion brands approach toward waste management -- 17. Recycling of plastics and composites materials and degradation technologies for bioplastics and biocomposites -- Index.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to find the studies conducted on women leadership in higher education (WLHE) in the past 20 years to understand as to how the trend has changed over the past two decades around the world and particularly in Vietnam for women leaders in higher education institutions.


Design/methodology/approach
This paper used a systematic review of 93 articles published in the past 20 years in WLHE. The articles were classified based on the country of research and the research methods used.


Findings
The study concluded that most of the research in WLHE had been done in the USA and Canada, with a dearth of literature on WLHE in Asia, and only six studies so far have been done in Vietnam, with only two studies being done before 2017. Vietnam is gaining importance in research in WLHE may be because of the increased female labour participation rate and growth in the gross domestic product.


Practical implications
This study provided some recommendations at the societal, institutional and individual levels, which can help in women empowerment and help women take up the leadership roles.


Originality/value
Although a variety of reviews have been conducted focusing on different areas in higher education, there is a small number of literature review studies in the field of women leaders in higher education, especially in Vietnam and Asia. Hence, the current study will add this missing part to the growing body of literature in WLHE.

PurposeThis paper aims to identify and discuss selected reasons for social media disengagement (SMD). Drawing upon two-factor theory, it is argued that the determinants of consumer disengagement may be different from those that enable consumer engagement. Accordingly, extrinsic factors of social media experiences (SMEs), subjective norms (SN), perceived anonymity (PA) and perceived credibility (PC) trigger previously engaged consumers to terminate their interactions with the brand on social media.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative survey targeting young members from one of the largest social media communities in Vietnam was used in 2018. A total of 387 completed questionnaires were used for data analysis using covariance-based structural equation modeling.FindingsResults reveal that PC is the main driver of SMD. Moreover, PA, SME and SN are indirectly related to SMD via PC.Practical implicationsThe study provides some strategic recommendations for brand managers to re-design user interaction with social media brand pages to improve consumer retention and minimize consumer disengagement.Originality/valueWhile consumer engagement with social media has received much attention from practitioners and academics, a research gap exists around the "dark side" of consumer engagement in which consumers can disengage from their relationship with brand on social media. This disengagement can lead ultimately to the termination of the relationship between the consumer and the brand. This research contributes to marketing literature by providing empirical evidence for relevant constructs driving consumer disengagement from the brand's social media pages.

PurposeBlockchain-based traceability technology (BTT) is an emerging digital technology that claims to have the potential to fulfil the demand for traceability to safeguard fruit safety. Drawing on the technological, organisational and environmental (TOE) framework, this study aims to investigate the perceived facilitators and barriers that influence the behavioural intentions of multiple stakeholders in the Vietnamese fruit supply chain (i.e., farmers, trading enterprises and consumers) to adopt BTT.Design/methodology/approachThis study utilised a qualitative approach of semi-structured in-depth interviews with 60 stakeholders in the Vietnamese fruit supply chain to achieve the research objectives. NVivo 12 was employed to analyse the collected data using content and thematic analysis.FindingsThe findings identify several perceived facilitators that motivate BTT adoption. These include trust, transparency, business performance, the formation of alliances, consumer awareness of food safety and ethical agricultural practices, fruit branding and the pivotal role of farmers' cooperatives. Meanwhile, the perceived barriers to BTT adoption include a lack of digital literacy amongst the stakeholders, poor organisational culture, the high cost of traceability-enabled products and data privacy and security governance.Practical implicationsThis study suggests that technology awareness and perceived facilitators and barriers should be incorporated into the design and deployment of blockchain-based traceability technology in the agri-food supply chain in developing countries.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is the first qualitative paper that attempts to fill the research gap of understanding the perceived facilitators and barriers that influence the intentions of multiple stakeholders in the fruit supply chain to adopt BTT in the context of a developing economy.