Herausgeber*in: Better Buying Institute

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Asien, CSR-Maßnahmen, Einkaufspraktiken, Lieferketten

Kurzbeschreibung:

This tool offers a new perspective on buyer-supplier relationships by examining those relationships through the lens of partnership quality. Using just 12 subjective measures, the BBPI opens up new opportunities to learn about the impacts of purchasing practices by enabling suppliers in a range of industries and supply chain tiers to participate.

A total of 679 ratings were received during the 2021 ratings cycle. One hundred buyers were rated, including 94 buyers in the Softgoods category and 6 in the Hardgoods category (buyers that sell product types other than apparel, footwear, and household textiles). Most ratings were for Softgoods buyers (519 ratings), while the remaining were for Hardgoods buyers (160 ratings).

The suppliers that submitted ratings were from 50 different countries and regions, with nearly half of the ratings coming from the following areas: China (16.2% of all ratings), Taiwan (10.3%), the United States (9.9%), Hong Kong (6.3%), and South Korea (5.9%).

Key takeaways:

• Suppliers are under much pressure: many buyers never, rarely, or sometimes providing enough time, adequate visibility, stable business, and fair financials
• Many buyers are missing opportunities to improve their businesses by not seeking their suppliers’ ideas for product and process innovation
• Suppliers seem to currently have a low bar for what they consider an acceptable business relationship
• Buyer supply chains are further threatened by potential supply disruption, higher costs, and increased reputational risks.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2022

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 8 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende, Beschaffer*innen

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Herausgeber*in: Transparentem

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Asien, Bekleidungsindustrie, CSR-Maßnahmen, Löhne, Nachhaltigkeit, Sozialaudits, soziale Verantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

Audit deception is a serious impediment to identifying and remedying human rights abuses in global supply chains. This report compiles evidence from Transparentem’s past investigations of efforts to conceal labor rights violations from social auditors in the apparel industry in India, Malaysia, and Myanmar, as well as research from peer organizations and academics, which indicate that audit deception is a pervasive problem in apparel supply chains.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 44 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende, Beschäftigte in der Bekleidungsindustrie

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Herausgeber*in: Black in Fashion Council, Human Rights Campaign

Schlagwörter: CSR-Maßnahmen, Diskriminierung, Diversität, Nachhaltigkeit, People of Color (PoC)

Kurzbeschreibung:

Black professionals in fashion face widespread discrimination and prejudice – a testament to the fashion industry’s historically racist and exclusionary nature. In the current report, the results of the 2021 Black in Fashion Council (BIFC) Survey, which was coordinated by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in the Spring of the same year, are compiles and presented. In this survey 30 participants were asked to answer questions about their company’s current Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies and practices.

The four major criteria selected for this survey were: Workplace Nondiscrimination, Building an Inclusive Culture, Engaging the Black Community and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 21 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Herausgeber_in: Textile Exchange

Schlagwörter: Firmenbefragung, Strategien, Designstrategien, Unternehmensverantwortung, Unternehmenspraxis, CSRMaßnahmen, CSR-Maßnahmen, Corporate Social Responsibility, Positivbeispiele ÖkoMode 

Kurzbeschreibung:
As we were researching the Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report, we uncovered a rich and diverse set of stories from people who are really making a difference in textile sustainability. We decided to bring these together into this Insider Series, and the result is an uplifting read. The stories showcased here are an eclectic mix of industry leaders speaking from “inside” their organization. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 42 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download (nach Anmeldung)

Autor_in: Bruna Villa Todeschinia, Marcelo Nogueira Cortimigliaa, Daniela Callegaro-de-Menezesa, Antonio Ghezz

Schlagwörter: Nachhaltigkeit, Slow Fashion, Fair Trade, CSR, CSR-Maßnahmen, CSRMaßnahmen, Konsumalternativen, Kreislauf, Recycling, Fasertechnologie

Kurzbeschreibung:
New and existing companies are looking for ways to thrive in a competitive environment with innovative business models while respecting society and avoiding actions that harm the planet. Trends such as circular economy, fair trade, lowsumerism, and sharing economy are some of the many emerging entrepreneurial approaches that address this issue, but there is still a gap between what theory argues and the levels of environmental and social sustainability realized when theory is put into practice. In fact, most research on the topic of sustainable business models is still exploratory and does not fully acknowledge these emerging approaches, whose definitions, boundaries, and defining characteristics are still somewhat vague. This study seeks to contribute to the understanding of the inner entrepreneurial dynamics of innovative sustainable business models. In particular, we focus on the fashion business, a resource-intensive industry in which opportunities to reduce environmental impacts and to innovate business models abound. The aim of our research is to investigate innovative business models in the fashion industry that have sustainability as their defining characteristic, especially in terms of value proposition. In order to do that, we combine a systematic review of the literature with empirical research comprised of six interviews with specialists in sustainability, business model innovation, and the fashion industry, along with eight case studies on innovative fashion startups we define as ‘born sustainable.’ As a result, we propose a synthesizing framework that discloses trends and drivers of innovative and sustainable business models in the fashion industry. We also highlight opportunities and challenges for researchers and entrepreneurs interested in this topic. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 12 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: Kapitel aus Business Horizons

Für Studenten und Fakultätsmitglieder ist diese Studie kostenfrei unter verfügbar.

Autor_in: Yongjian Li, Xiukun Zhao, Dan Shi, Xiang Li

Schlagwörter: CSR, CSR-Maßnahmen, CSRMaßnahmen, Nachhaltigkeit, Lieferkette, Fast Fashion, Studie, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

This paper examines the impact of corporate social responsibility behavior on the sustainability performance of focal companies and their partners in fast fashion supply chains. The attributes of sustainability and the mechanism of sustainability governance of the fast fashion supply chain are also discussed. From the perspective of strategic corporate social responsibility, we first analyze the motives for adopting sustainability governance in fast fashion supply chains, and identify seven competitive sustainable attributes of the fast fashion product based on sustainable development theory. Then, by establishing a sustainability governance framework, we identify seven factors that affect the sustainability governance decision-making and evaluate the efficiency and legitimacy mechanism of sustainability governance from internal and external perspectives. Finally, we explore the application of the governance mechanisms via a case study based on H&M’s seven sustainability commitments. The findings suggest that the core influence and centrality of a corporation should be strengthened from the perspective of internal governance, and stakeholders should collaborate to achieve sustainability governance throughout the entire fast fashion supply chain from the perspective of external governance.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2014

Umfang: 14 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: Kapitel aus European Management Journal Volume 32, Issue 5: 35.95 €

Für Studenten und Fakultätsmitglieder ist diese Studie kostenfrei verfügbar.

Herausgeber: Gisela Burckhardt (Hg.) in Kooperation mit CCC und CorA

Schlagwörter: Unternehmensverantwortung, CSR, CSR-Maßnahmen, Wirkung, Transparenz, Freiwillig, Regulierung, extraterritorialer Menschenrechtsschutz, Gesetzgebung, freiwillig, Pflicht, Soziale Verantwortung, Transparenz, Verhaltenskodex, Greenwashing

Kurzbeschreibung: Der 250 Seiten umfassende Sammelband zum Thema Mythos CSR widmet sich der Frage von Unternehmensverantwortung zwischen Freiwilligkeit und Regulierung in globalen Lieferketten.

Der Band zeigt die Lücken bei der staatlichen Schutzpflicht in Deutschland/Europa auf und fragt nach der Wirkung von CSR Maßnahmen von Unternehmen auf die Arbeitsbedingungen. Auch das Thema Transparenz und Berichtspflichten von Unternehmen wird in mehreren Artikeln erläutert. Im letzten Kapitel werden aufgrund der erstellten Analyse die Forderungen an die Bundesregierung dargestellt, damit Unternehmen ihrer Sorgfaltspflicht und der Staat seiner Schutzpflicht nachkommen.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2011

Umfang: Sammelband, 250 Seiten, Kurzfassung 25 Seiten steht zum Download zur Verfügung

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Sprache: Deutsch

Inhalt: Unternehmensverantwortung – zwischen Freiwilligkeit und Regulierung, Staatliche Schutzpflicht und Rechtsschutz in Europa, insbesondere in Deutschland, Extraterritorialer Menschenrechtsschutz und Unternehmensverantwortung, Mangelnder Schutz der Betroffenen in ausgewählten Produktionsländern, Freiwillige CSR-Initiativen zur Umsetzung von Unternehmensverantwortung, CSR-Maßnahmen von Unternehmen und ihre Wirkungen, Transparenz - Eine Voraussetzung für Unternehmensverantwortung, Schlussfolgerungen und Vorschläge für Reformen

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