Sectoral assessment of the Turkish textile industry for the diffusion of sustainable production approach

Abstract

The major objective of this study was to conduct a sectoral assessment for the textile industry and develop recommendations in order to successfully diffuse sustainable production approach within this sector in Turkey. Three scale analyses (micro, meso, and macro) were conducted by means of survey studies taking into account (i) the textile producer firms' capacities and awareness, (ii) standards and demands of retailer companies as well as (iii) the existing institutional framework, strategies, supports, and incentives. Survey study covered 76 textile producer firms, 10 retailer companies (e.g. multinational corporations), and 17 institutions. The results of survey studies indicate that sustainable production approach is not adapted in the majority of the producer firms. Meanwhile, retailer companies have recently started to focus on the supply management issues putting stress on sustainable production approaches as integral parts of their corporate social responsibility policies. Moreover, there is a considerable movement and institutional intention in public and other relevant institutions in relation to the development of activities in line with the sustainable production approach. To the best of authors' knowledge, this study is the first ever activity in Turkey on sustainable production with a sector-specific dimension.

Sustainable manufacturing adoption in textile industries: A systematic state‐of‐art literature review and future research outline

“…Industries that adopt sustainability practices gain an advantage in this competitive market. SM adoption plays an important role in the development of textile manufacturing sectors in developed and developing countries (Alkaya & Demirer, 2015; Amutha, 2017; Tanapongpipat et al, 2008; Zabaniotou & Andreou, 2010). Every textile industry tries to adopt sustainability practices in all aspects of manufacturing.…”

Cleaner production practices at company level enhance the desire of employees to have a significant positive impact on society through work

“…More explicitly, various processes in the garments manufacturing industry e.g. selection of raw material ( Amindoust and Saghafinia, 2017 ; Avadí et al., 2020 ; Daksa Ejeta et al., 2020 ), suppliers ( Daksa Ejeta et al., 2020 ; Morali et al., 2016 ; Sela et al., 2020 ), cotton harvesting ( Afzal et al., 2020 ; Sluijs and Roth, 2020 ; Wanjura et al., 2019 ), spinning ( Fockink et al., 2020 ; Shao and Ma, 2019 ; Singh and Kumar, 2019 ), weaving ( Baydar et al., 2015 ; El-Gohary et al., 2013 ; Hossain et al., 2018 ), dry and wet processing ( Alkaya and Demirer, 2015 ; Fresner, 1998b ; Kiran-Ciliz, 2003 ; Zhang et al., 2016 ), washing ( Dumitrescu et al., 2008 ; Maryan and Montazer, 2013 ), bleaching ( Baban et al., 2010 ; Narayanaswamy and Scott, 2001 ), dyeing ( Al-Yousfi, 2004 ; Bhuiyan et al., 2018 ; Chen et al., 2017 ; Gong et al., 2018 ; Haji and Naebe, 2020 ; Long et al., 2014 ; Ozturk et al., 2015 , 2014 ; Pisitsak et al., 2018 ; Schramm, 1998 ; Silva et al., 2018 ; Xiao et al., 2017 ; Yukseler et al., 2017 ), printing ( Chen and Long, 2018 ; Ibrahim et al., 2015 ; C. Li et al., 2018 ; Tong et al., 2012 ), treatment of emissions/waste-water ( Ali et al., 2016 ; Liang et al., 2018 ) and packaging/finishing processes ( Ali et al., 2016 ; Benli and Bahtiyari, 2015 ; Manring and Moore, 2006 ; Ozturk et al., 2016 ) can be positively abridged and streamlined with the implementation of CPP at company level ( Alkaya and Demirer, 2015 ; de Oliveira et al....…”