Circular Approaches and Business Model Innovations for Social Sustainability in the Textile Industry

Beyer, Katja; Arnold, Marlen Gabriele

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22018-1_19

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“…Sustainability in the global textile and apparel industry is becoming ever more vital. This industry, characterized by long, complex, and global value chains, and embracing a wide range of stakeholders and interest groups, is confronted with sustainability challenges due to prevalent linear production and consumption patterns [17]. Next to environmental impacts such as water pollution, chemicals, waste accumulation or rainforest destruction, the industry is also responsible for social harm and crises across the world including human rights abuses, child labor or worker discrimination [18].…”

Section: Theoretical Background 21 Sustainability In the Apparel Inmentioning

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Country Differences in Determinants of Behavioral Intention towards Sustainable Apparel Products

Jung

Kim

2021

Sustainability

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Increased demands for sustainable apparel products require research to understand better how to encourage sustainable buying behavior effectively, especially in the understudied areas of cross-cultural research. This study, which includes respondents from the UK, US, and China (total n = 711) who completed an online survey, explores determinants of behavioral intention toward sustainable apparel products (SAP). This paper contributes to examine both consumer characteristics (shopping values, consciousness of sustainability, perceived consumer effectiveness, and environmental knowledge) and marketing perspective (evaluation criteria of SAP) determinants for encouraging sustainable apparel consumption behaviors. Significant country differences also emerged, indicating the positive impact on behavioral intention to sustainable apparel products across three countries. Results of structural equation modeling analysis demonstrated there were differences and similarities in the effect of consumers’ characteristic factors and marketing perspective factors on SAP behavioral intention among three countries. The results validate that differentiated marketing strategies in the sustainable apparel industry are required when targeting global consumers to boost sustainable apparel consumption and successfully help to remedy the crisis facing our planet and further generation.

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Section: Theoretical Background 21 Sustainability In the Apparel Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Country Differences in Determinants of Behavioral Intention towards Sustainable Apparel Products

Jung

Kim

2021

Sustainability

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“…The current situation in Europe and the United States strongly suggests that industrial processes will undergo an ecological transition, and the textile industry will be increasingly called upon to play a relevant role. CE approaches for the textile industry [9], the design of new generations of yarns [10], fabrics, and garments, using regenerated wool and sustainable materials, the design of textile products improving health and wellness [11], the development of ecofriendly/sustainable processes for fabric manufacturing [12], and the ideation of smart and bio-materials are just some of the keywords for the future of textiles. Such research fields could also embrace recent trends in artificial intelligence methods for the purpose of modelling and simulating circular textile processes [13], for sorting or selecting raw materials [14], for traceability of the textile and clothing supply chain [15], and many more.…”

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Special Issue on Innovative Textiles in the Era of Circular Economy

Furferi

2021

Applied Sciences

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This work presents the Special Issue on Innovative Textiles in the Era of Circular Economy, published in the Applied Sciences Journal. Such an issue was introduced to promote papers related to the textile field aiming at the development of a range of sustainable processes, technologies, products, and actions for the improvement of human well-being and social equity. Works proposed in this Special Issue are aimed at significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological shortcomings related to the development of textile products.

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Social sustainability in an evolving circular fashion industry: identifying and triangulating concepts across different publication groups

Beyer

Arnold

2022

NachhaltigkeitsManagementForum

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Sustainability and the concept of circular economy are two of the most prominent approaches in the fashion industry to meet global challenges. Advocated by different interest groups, these concepts primarily follow an environmental and economic perspective on sustainability. In turn, the social dimension of sustainability has not been extensively explored. Performing a comparative discourse analysis, this study triangulates data from three different perspectives and unveils social sustainability-related aspects in documents related to two specific companies as well as in academic and stakeholder publications in the fashion context. We use LeximancerTM to reveal and visualize the scope and frequency of socially relevant concepts in more than 550 publications. Based on this, results show that the two fashion companies have gradually been communicating more about social sustainability-related aspects as opposed to academic and stakeholder publications. Overall, single social sustainability-related values exclusively appear in each of the publication groups, whereas others seem to reflect a mutual influence among the different players. Yet, pivotal social sustainability-related issues are missing. This corroborates scholars assuming a neglected role of the social dimension of sustainability in general and calling for a greater elaboration on social aspects in the conceptualization of a circular economy. Our results also call for a deeper follow-up analysis of communications, practices and strategies of different actors in their respective social contexts.

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Circular Approaches and Business Model Innovations for Social Sustainability in the Textile Industry

Cited by 6 publications

References 96 publications

Country Differences in Determinants of Behavioral Intention towards Sustainable Apparel Products

Country Differences in Determinants of Behavioral Intention towards Sustainable Apparel Products

Special Issue on Innovative Textiles in the Era of Circular Economy

Social sustainability in an evolving circular fashion industry: identifying and triangulating concepts across different publication groups

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