Sustainable Fashion Product Innovation: Continuous Value of Apparel Products on Second-Hand Product Trading Platforms

Dynamic Capabilities for Continuous Product Innovation

In order to understand the organizational sources of continuous innovation, the paper provides an in– depth analysis of a leading company in the hearing aid industry, which showed impressive ability to develop and introduce innovation in the Nineties. Findings focus on three dynamic capabilities used by the innovator, and their resource-based nature. Discussion points to the generalization of t...

On Sustainable Product Development

Many tools and concepts in the field of Industrial Ecology are developed in this context, e.g., Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA), streamlined LCA, Design for Environment (DfE), ecological footprint, factor x, environmental space as well as the environmental management systems ISO 14001, EMAS and BS 7750 (Vellinga et al. (1997) give a good overview of different tools). These methods do not necessaril...

Sustainable value creation through new industrial supply chains in apparel and fashion

This paper explores the inter-organizational value creation, in apparel supply chain context, through circularity and digitalization for sustainability, by gathering evidences from vivid research experiences. It can be highlighted that inter-organizational value creation in both circularand digitalapparel supply chains largely builds upon a variety of collaborative initiatives, and among a rang...

Procurement as driver of sustainable product-service innovation

Recirculation: A New Concept to Drive Innovation in Sustainable Product Design for Bio-Based Products.

Bio-based products are made from renewable materials, offering a promising basis for the production of sustainable chemicals, materials, and more complex articles. However, biomass is not a limitless resource or one without environmental and social impacts. Therefore, while it is important to use biomass and grow a bio-based economy, displacing the unsustainable petroleum basis of energy and ch...