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Qualification as corporate activism : How Swedish apparel retailers attach circular fashion qualities to take-back systems

Corvellec, Hervé LU orcid and Stål, Herman (2019) In Scandinavian Journal of Management 35(3).
Abstract
This paper explains how corporations can develop market-based activities to influence environmental policies. The empirical focus is on how Swedish apparel retailers qualify take-back systems for used clothes and textiles as steps toward creating circular fashion. An analysis of the qualities that retailers attach to take-back systems shows how qualification helps corporations feature fashion as potentially sustainable and able to develop circular material flows, with the aim to enroll staff, customers, and other stakeholders in new behaviors and patterns of responsibility. We apply the notion of corporate activism to demonstrate how corporations use qualification to engage in market-based activities with the aim of influencing the... (More)
This paper explains how corporations can develop market-based activities to influence environmental policies. The empirical focus is on how Swedish apparel retailers qualify take-back systems for used clothes and textiles as steps toward creating circular fashion. An analysis of the qualities that retailers attach to take-back systems shows how qualification helps corporations feature fashion as potentially sustainable and able to develop circular material flows, with the aim to enroll staff, customers, and other stakeholders in new behaviors and patterns of responsibility. We apply the notion of corporate activism to demonstrate how corporations use qualification to engage in market-based activities with the aim of influencing the regulatory agenda. (Less)
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Corporate political action, corporate activism, Qualification, Take-back systems, Apparel
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Scandinavian Journal of Management
volume
35
issue
3
article number
101046
pages
9 pages
publisher
Elsevier
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  • scopus:85063584564
ISSN
0956-5221
DOI
10.1016/j.scaman.2019.03.002
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From waste management to waste prevention. Closing implementation gaps through sustainable action nets
Signs of the future show the way
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English
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2019-03-20 15:40:22
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