Qualification as corporate activism : How Swedish apparel retailers attach circular fashion qualities to take-back systems
Corvellec, Hervé LU
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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- author
- Corvellec, Hervé
LU
and Stål, Herman
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019-08-09
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Corporate political action, corporate activism, Qualification, Take-back systems, Apparel
- in
- Scandinavian Journal of Management
- volume
- 35
- issue
- 3
- article number
- 101046
- pages
- 9 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85063584564
- ISSN
- 0956-5221
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.scaman.2019.03.002
- project
- From waste management to waste prevention. Closing implementation gaps through sustainable action nets
- Signs of the future show the way
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- cbf8cb51-1797-410a-98e6-861c91d6ab5b
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