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Chrysalis of crisis: Covid-19 as a catalyst for awakening power and justice in a luxury fashion supply chain by Hakan Karaosman; Donna Marshall; Verónica H. Villena is a Business, Management and Accounting article available to read on EtoBox.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how supply chain actors in an Italian cashmere supply chain reacted to dependence and power use during the Covid-19 crisis and how this affected their perceptions of justice. Design/methodology/approach The research took a case study approach exploring issues of dependence, power and justice in a multi-tier luxury cashmere supply chain. Findings The authors found two types of dependence: Craftmanship-induced buyer dependence and Market-position-induced supplier dependence. The authors also identified four key archetypes emerging from the dynamics of dependence, power and justice during Covid-19. In the repressive archetype, buying firms perceive their suppliers as dependent and use mediated power through coercive tactics, leading the suppliers to perceive interactional, procedural and distributive injustice and use reciprocal coercive tactics against the buying firms in the form of coopetition. In the restrictive archetype, buying firms that are aware of their dependence on their suppliers use mediated power through contracts, with suppliers perceiving distributive injustice and developing ways to circumvent the brands. In the rela

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Author

Hakan Karaosman; Donna Marshall; Verónica H. Villena

Publisher

Emerald

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)