Print Email Facebook Twitter Innovation characteristics of fashion focal companies related to the strategy towards implementation of sustainability in their supply network Part of: Knowledge Collaboration & Learning for Sustainable Innovation: 14th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) conference and the 6th Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU) conference· list the conference papers Title Innovation characteristics of fashion focal companies related to the strategy towards implementation of sustainability in their supply network Author Van Bommel, H.W.M. Date 2010-10-27 Abstract The need to pay attention to social and environmental aspects in the supply network of companies is hardly discussed anymore. But how a good strategy and related activities can be selected and implemented is a question that remains. Strategies and activities found in practice seem to be based on ad hoc decisions and not systematic and rational choices. Based on a qualitative literature research in environmental, social/ethical and logistics/operations management journals a conceptual framework for analyzing was developed and will be published soon. The framework integrates innovation and cooperative characteristics of the focal company and its supply network. This paper presents the first results from a survey that was held under 91 fashion/clothing companies in the Netherlands in the spring of 2010. The sector was selected because it is a known global industrial supply network, faces many sustainability aspects and many competing initiatives for managing these sustainability aspects are in place. The first results show that 75% of the respondents do not own the production phase of the supply network so for controlling this phase on sustainability aspects they depend on others. The respondents think that the personal conviction of the management and the government with regulations are the most dominating factors influencing the attention paid to social and environmental aspects in the supply network. The programmes/initiatives known best by the respondents are Oekotex 100 and the Fair Wear Foundation. Nearly all of them use or will use Oekotex 100 and only some participate in the Fair Wear Foundation programme. The scores given to thirty (innovation) statements in the questionnaire will be used to characterise the innovation power of the focal company and its supply network. These results will be related to the activities/programmes joined by this company later. Subject innovationfashionsustainabilitysupply network To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:69ff771e-97a6-4e95-b861-d7a0c299dc28 Part of collection Conference proceedings Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 Van Bommel, H.W.M. Files PDF 194_Bommel.pdf 78.41 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:69ff771e-97a6-4e95-b861-d7a0c299dc28/datastream/OBJ/view