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http://dx.doi.org/10.5850/JKSCT.2014.38.2.137

Study on Practical Evaluation for Sustainability in Textile and Fashion Companies  

Syn, Hye-Young (Human Ecology & Research Institute, Ewha Womans University)
Geum, Key-Sook (Dept. of Textile Art & Fashion Design, Hongik University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles / v.38, no.2, 2014 , pp. 137-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
The practice of sustainability is an important subject to integrate into the management, product planning, manufacturing by textile and fashion companies as well as consumption by end-users. This study shows an evaluation scale designed to assess the practical cases in order to suggest efficient and systematic methods to fulfill the practice of sustainability in textile and fashion companies. First, companies should practice environmental sustainability to use eco-friendly material and cleaner production, protect the environment, and save natural resources. Second, social sustainability is required to fulfill social responsibility and ethical needs. Third, companies should perform various innovative activities, transparency in management, fair competition and economic contribution in the local community in order to maintain economic sustainability to survive in industry. Finally, cultural sustainability should be fulfilled by textile and fashion companies as part of the intellectual-cultural industry in a way that increases the importance of ethnic and cultural diversity. Textile and fashion companies should fulfill four environmental, social, and economic cultural sustainable subjects in a balanced method to accomplish sustainability. The concerns and practices of environmental sustainability are comparatively highly rated due to the analysis of the evaluation scale. However, cultural sustainability (a need of the times) is poorly rated and needs more attention. Therefore, the evaluation scale can be used as a standard tool to fulfill the sustainability of companies and brands from the viewpoint of improving poor and insufficiently sustainable items as well as balancing sustainability management.
Keywords
Sustainability; Cultural sustainability; Rating scale;
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