Part-Time Urban Policy Faculty, Nebahat Tokatli was published in the Journal of Economic Geography. Tokatli’s first article is titled, Toward a better understanding of the apparel industry: a critique of the upgrading literature. In this article Tokatli makes the claim that the concept of upgrading, as conventionally conceived by the students of the apparel industry, has serious limitations.
The second article published by the Journal of Economic Geography is titled, Doing a Gucci: the transformation of an Italian fashion firm into a global powerhouse in a ‘Los Angeles-izing’ world. In this article Tokatli examines the 1990s transformation of the Italian firm Gucci from near bankruptcy into a global powerhouse as the owner of world’s third most valuable fashion brand.
