Fashion Rental: Smart Business or Ethical Folly?

Faldo's folly or Monty's Carlo

The Ryder Cup is arguably the most prestigious and most exciting golf tournament in the World. It is a team event contested once every 2 years between 12 golfers from Europe and 12 golfers from the United States of America. For the 12 singles matches on the final Sunday, each captain selects the order in which his players tee off. In 2008, after an eventual US victory, the sporting press was hu...

Sustainability in Fashion Business Operations

Under the global trend of sustainability, many companies selling fashion products have to reshape their operational strategies. Over the past few years, we have witnessed many fashion companies going green by re-engineering their business processes and establishing their formal sustainability programs. Many important topics, such as closed-loop supply chain management, corporate social responsi...

Sexual behavior at work: Fun or folly?

Sexual behavior at work (e.g., sexual jokes and propositions) has been largely portrayed as offensive and harmful. The current research represents the first studies to test whether this is typically the case. Study 1 surveyed manufacturing and social service workers (N = 238) about their psychological well-being, work withdrawal, and exposure to sexual behavior at work. Respondents indicated ho...

Smart Fashion and Learning about Digital Culture

In this paper we summarize our results of analysing different construction materials and programming languages in robotic workshops and present a solution how to enhance the “Handy Crickets” technology to be used for a different application domain namely smart fashion. Smart fashion proved to be a topic equally attractive for girls and boys. We describe our experiments in workshops with childre...

Virtual Goods: Insanity or Just a Smart Business Model?