Sustainable supply chain management of clothing industry—current policy landscape and roles and limitation of multi-stakeholder initiatives
(2021) In Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management p.199-213- Abstract
High environmental and social impacts arisen from long and complicated global supply chain of clothing industry has been long recognized. However, a thorough review of the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) policy development pertaining to clothing industry at the EU level indicates that legislative measures specifically addressing SSCM of clothing industry is currently lacking. Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) emerged as a non-legislative governance measure engaging various stakeholders, and its role to fill in the governance gap has been highlighted in, among others, the global supply chains of clothing industry. Interviews with nine Swedish brand representatives participating in three selected MSIs—Sustainable Apparel... (More)
High environmental and social impacts arisen from long and complicated global supply chain of clothing industry has been long recognized. However, a thorough review of the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) policy development pertaining to clothing industry at the EU level indicates that legislative measures specifically addressing SSCM of clothing industry is currently lacking. Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) emerged as a non-legislative governance measure engaging various stakeholders, and its role to fill in the governance gap has been highlighted in, among others, the global supply chains of clothing industry. Interviews with nine Swedish brand representatives participating in three selected MSIs—Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Sweden Textile Water Initiative and Textile Exchange—on one hand elucidate tangible contributions of the three case MSIs to the brands’ SSCM measures. We meanwhile also observe the trend of various MSIs to consolidate their efforts and harmonise their activities, and that the discourse within the MSIs tend to be dominated by a few large brands. The outcome of such discourse, such as standards which in light of current lack of legislative measures could serve as default global standards, may become a suboptimal compromise from sustainability standpoint. The paper closes with potential future way forward to enhance sustainability of clothing supply chain.
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- author
- Machek, Dominika ; Heinz, Caroline and Tojo, Naoko LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Brand’s perception, Clothing industry, EU, Government interventions, Multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI), Privatisation of standards, Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), Sweden, Textiles
- host publication
- EcoDesign and Sustainability I
- series title
- Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
- pages
- 15 pages
- publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85096023315
- ISSN
- 2194-055X
- 2194-0541
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-6779-7_15
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1364da59-1dfd-4691-ac40-cf1ebf13f506
- date added to LUP
- 2020-12-08 13:24:14
- date last changed
- 2024-06-27 02:48:40
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abstract = {{<p>High environmental and social impacts arisen from long and complicated global supply chain of clothing industry has been long recognized. However, a thorough review of the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) policy development pertaining to clothing industry at the EU level indicates that legislative measures specifically addressing SSCM of clothing industry is currently lacking. Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) emerged as a non-legislative governance measure engaging various stakeholders, and its role to fill in the governance gap has been highlighted in, among others, the global supply chains of clothing industry. Interviews with nine Swedish brand representatives participating in three selected MSIs—Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Sweden Textile Water Initiative and Textile Exchange—on one hand elucidate tangible contributions of the three case MSIs to the brands’ SSCM measures. We meanwhile also observe the trend of various MSIs to consolidate their efforts and harmonise their activities, and that the discourse within the MSIs tend to be dominated by a few large brands. The outcome of such discourse, such as standards which in light of current lack of legislative measures could serve as default global standards, may become a suboptimal compromise from sustainability standpoint. The paper closes with potential future way forward to enhance sustainability of clothing supply chain.</p>}},
author = {{Machek, Dominika and Heinz, Caroline and Tojo, Naoko}},
booktitle = {{EcoDesign and Sustainability I}},
issn = {{2194-055X}},
keywords = {{Brand’s perception; Clothing industry; EU; Government interventions; Multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI); Privatisation of standards; Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM); Sweden; Textiles}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{199--213}},
publisher = {{Springer Science and Business Media B.V.}},
series = {{Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management}},
title = {{Sustainable supply chain management of clothing industry—current policy landscape and roles and limitation of multi-stakeholder initiatives}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6779-7_15}},
doi = {{10.1007/978-981-15-6779-7_15}},
year = {{2021}},
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