Journal Evaluation - Design Innovation and Fashion Cycles

Journal Evaluation

A complete citation for the journal article

Pesendorfer, W. (1995). Design Innovation and Fashion Cycles. Design Innovation and Fashion Cycles, 85(4), 771-792.

Strategy for finding the journal article

Finding a journal that I felt would best fit my research question was not easy and by far the hardest to find out of my three evaluations. I started off by trying to find a journal using the database I shared in class, but I did not find any relevant information. From there I went to JSTOR.org, a link from the UNC library website this was very useful and I was finally able to come across a journal I felt I could work with, Design Innovation and Fashion Cycles.

Rationale for selection of the journal article

Not only did the title stand out to me when I stumbled across it, but I also read over the introduction paragraph and it seemed to fit my research question. The publisher of this article is an American economic association. So from that I could tell that I was not dealing with a small publishing company that did not know the knowledge that was being printed.

General evaluation of the journal article

This article is intended for those who look at fashion as something enjoyable and want to take that joy to another level. The audience reading this article is those who would like to learn more about the process of getting the fashion designs noticed, priced, and out on the market. The purpose of this article is to inform what methods are used to do so and what type of cycles fashion operates in. “A monopolist periodically creates a new design. Over time the price of the design falls as it spreads across the population” (Page 771). Creating a cycle that continues time and time again.

Example strategies used to search within the journal article

Throughout the article there were titles and subtitles that were very helpful in search of finding information for my research question. I used this strategy in search of information through the entire article and this led me to bits and pieces of information that I was able to put together to come up with answers to my question. All the searches I conducted became very useful as I was able to find a lot of information that was relevant for my research paper.

A brief summary of the information yielded by the journal article

Over all the information that I have learned was very relevant and helpful towards answering my research question. This article shared the strategies and the cycle of the fashion world and what is expected form it.

A revised draft of your research question

I didn’t have to change my research question.