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Lava: Is Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr) Inevitability Or Fashion? The Role Of The Network For Encouraging Business To Truly Commit To Sustainability, Zivile Stankeviciute, Asta Savaneviciene Prof Dr
Lava: Is Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr) Inevitability Or Fashion? The Role Of The Network For Encouraging Business To Truly Commit To Sustainability, Zivile Stankeviciute, Asta Savaneviciene Prof Dr
Case Studies
LAVA is a Sustainable Business Association of Lithuania, which brings together companies and organisations committed to implement and follow responsible and sustainable business practices. The Association was formed out of the ”National Network of Responsible Business Enterprises” (NNRBE), which had been active in Lithuania since 2005. From 30 August 2013 LAVA continues the work of NNRBE. Although LAVA operates more than 10 years, ir currently brings together only 34 business and non-business organizations. The core issues are as follows: how to spread the notion about corporate sustainability in Lithuania?; how to attract organizations truly to commit to sustainability? how to …
A Closer Look At Csr Practices In Sustainable Fashion: A Guideline For Apparel Brands, Elline Deogracias, Tracie Tung, Natale Zappia
A Closer Look At Csr Practices In Sustainable Fashion: A Guideline For Apparel Brands, Elline Deogracias, Tracie Tung, Natale Zappia
CSU Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change
While it might be greenwashing that impedes consumers' eco-consumption, the researchers posit that this gap is also due to fashion brands’ weak CSR communication and inconsistent understanding of CSR activities. This study aims to 1) determine the ease with which consumers can navigate sustainable fashion brand websites to find corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, and 2) construct a framework that clearly identifies CSR activities, CSR dimensions, and the business operation stages at which they occur. Website content analyses were conducted on 27 sustainable fashion brands in the United States to investigate their CSR activities. A framework was proposed to better …
The Future Of Fashion: Corporate Social Responsibility And Essential Marketing Strategies, Taite Jorgensen
The Future Of Fashion: Corporate Social Responsibility And Essential Marketing Strategies, Taite Jorgensen
CMC Senior Theses
This paper analyzes how fast fashion has impacted future trends of the fashion industry. Due to globalization, the fast fashion industry has been able to create new norms of over-consumerism and international labor. Because of this, the fast fashion industry is able to mass produce in a way consumers have never seen before, in addition to making it all at extremely low prices. However, fast fashion brands are only able to mass produce cheap goods through unethical methodologies; these methodologies include unsustainable materials and practices, inhuman labor conditions and wages, and by making sizes that exclude bigger bodies. Consumers are …
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: The Case Of The Fashion Industry, Karina Zhao
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: The Case Of The Fashion Industry, Karina Zhao
Honors Scholar Theses
This paper examines the nature of corporate social responsibility (CSR), with a focus on corporations within the fashion industry. First, I discuss the evolution of CSR from its origin in the 1930s until present day, along with global trends that have risen in respect to emerging economies, industry sectors, and regulatory change. Then, I summarize factors that motivate firms to prepare and provide CSR reports – i.e., the determinants of voluntary disclosure of CSR reports. In addition, I discuss to what extent these reports are regulated and assured across the globe, as an increasing number of corporations participate in disclosing …