Sustainable product development processes in fashion: Supply chains structures and classifications

Fung, Yi Ning; Chan, Hau‐Ling; Choi, Tsan‐Ming; Liu, Rong

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107911

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“…In addition to reducing raw materials, natural resources can be reduced, and harmful chemicals used in production processes can be eliminated, such as dyes for finishing [49,51]. According to [58], Nike defined different goals to try to reduce waste, such as color dry technology which dyes fabrics without using water. Using this technology, the company was able to save more than 20 million liters of water and eliminate chemicals used in the dyeing process [59,60].…”

Section: Ce Initiatives Adopted By the Fashion Industrymentioning

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Can Fashion Be Circular? A Literature Review on Circular Economy Barriers, Drivers, and Practices in the Fashion Industry’s Productive Chain

2021

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Circular economy (CE) principles have gained prominence in the fashion industry since it is a highly polluting industry and requires sustainable changes. Even though there are several CE initiatives already in place within the fashion production chain, changes towards CE are still slow. This study seeks to identify the drivers, barriers, and practices that influence implementing circular economy concepts in the fashion industry production chain using a systematic literature review. The results show that some more barriers and criteria keep consumers away from circular fashion concepts than drivers. These barriers include fast fashion consumer culture, even though more consumers are environmentally conscious. This is because awareness has not reached large-scale populations, despite the world being more aware of social and environmental issues. Consumers still do not see ethical and ecological problems associated with the fashion industry and continue to be targeted for large fast fashion retailers that sell a misguided version of consumerism. This study contributes to both academia and new fashion business models that seek to become more sustainable since it presents opportunities for investments and the obstacles that must be overcome for reaching CE within this sector.

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Section: Ce Initiatives Adopted By the Fashion Industrymentioning

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Can Fashion Be Circular? A Literature Review on Circular Economy Barriers, Drivers, and Practices in the Fashion Industry’s Productive Chain

2021

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“…The light industry can significantly contribute to reducing cost, improving the market position, identifying new market opportunities, adding sustainable jobs, and reducing the impact on the environment by streamlining the number of resources used, and improving the percentage of water recycled and reused, improving the percentage of products sold and their packaging, improving materials that are reclaimed by category, reducing the number of stored materials, improving the percentage of materials used that are recycled, and reducing input materials. The estimates of the total direct and indirect emissions by the weight and the efficiency uses of materials used in textile production were presented in this study (Fung et al, 2020;Moorhouse, 2020;Todeschini et al, 2020;Wu & Li, 2020). adopting activities that are part of the CE can contribute to sustainable development, the so-called 11Rs, discussed here.…”

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Accentuating the interconnection between business sustainability and organizational performance in the context of the circular economy: The moderating role of organizational competitiveness

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Sustainability development has gained significant importance in the modern business environment. The primary objective is to conduct an explanatory and quantitative study of the impacts of the social, economic, and environmental dimensions on organizational performance, considering the moderating role of organizational competitiveness. Data were collected from Chinese, Italian, and Romanian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The questionnaires were distributed by applying simple random sampling techniques. The study sample size consists of 320 SME employees. Hierarchical regression was used to investigate the moderating impacts of organizational competitiveness on the relationships of the social, economic, and environmental dimensions and organizational performance. The regression analysis shows a positive relationship between the study variables. Small and medium-sized enterprises are focusing more on sustainable business practices.

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“…The results are shown in Table 9. In this process, group utility S j and individual regret R j were calculated according to Equations ( 7) and (8), where w i is the relative weight of the normalized RPNs in Table 2. The relative weight of the supply chain risks was included in Step 5 of the first HoQ (Figure 2).…”

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“…Its low prices and rapid product rotation encourage excessive consumption, leading to unsustainable practices in the supply chain, thereby bringing negative ecological and social impact [7]. These data have increased the consumer demand for sustainable fashion and shifted the attention of fashion brands on sustainable development [8,9]. Indeed, the integration of sustainable practices in sustainable fashion supply chains (SFSCs) has become an area of increasing concern due to global competition and tighter regulations [10].…”

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Deploying Resilience Enablers to Mitigate Risks in Sustainable Fashion Supply Chains

Hsu¹

2021

Sustainability

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The complex structure of supply chains makes them vulnerable to risk, so enhancing their resilience is an important goal. In particular, fashion supply chain research has identified two important issues that need to be addressed: sustainability and risk. However, investigation of these issues is relatively sparse and has primarily been independent with little combinatory research. Therefore, it is crucial to develop a risk mitigation method that can maximize the resilience of sustainable supply chains for fashion companies. The objective of this study is to develop an integrated quality function deployment approach and to mitigate supply chain risk by deploying resilience capabilities and resilience-enhancing features, thus ultimately providing the fashion industry with a useful approach for the development of resilient, sustainable supply chains. Using a fashion company as an example, the practicability of the proposed approach is verified. To strengthen resilience and thus mitigate key risks, it is found that the most urgent tasks are to reallocate the company’s resources, to carry out the real-time monitoring of risk on the spot, to share the risk responsibility, and to establish an incentive system. When these features are strengthened, agility and adaptability can be improved, and finally, the risks of supplier delays, natural disasters, political instability, and problematic supplier materials with the greatest impact can be alleviated. This study provides a new strategy for the fashion industry for the implementation of resilient, sustainable supply chains to mitigate risks.

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Sustainable product development processes in fashion: Supply chains structures and classifications

Cited by 65 publications

References 91 publications

Can Fashion Be Circular? A Literature Review on Circular Economy Barriers, Drivers, and Practices in the Fashion Industry’s Productive Chain

Can Fashion Be Circular? A Literature Review on Circular Economy Barriers, Drivers, and Practices in the Fashion Industry’s Productive Chain

Accentuating the interconnection between business sustainability and organizational performance in the context of the circular economy: The moderating role of organizational competitiveness

Deploying Resilience Enablers to Mitigate Risks in Sustainable Fashion Supply Chains

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