This paper is aimed at making recommendations to establish a stewardship to embody the responsibilities and morality that will prevent the automation risks faced by Least Development Countries (LDCs) due to transition toward digital modernity. Recent studies reveal that law qualified individuals in developed countries will face the risks of jobs that are highly subject to automation. This indicates that corresponding risks will be seen in LDCs. The rise of digitalization may override developing country's opportunities to elevate itself from a low-income country to a middle or high-income country. In the aftermath of World War Ⅱ, western society tried to support LDCs in maintain the principles of a free world system and contribute to reducing poverty through market oriented development. Since the end of Cold War, defense of the free world has lost its significance but economy is getting more important political instrument. Advancement of automation technologies might aggravate opportunities for developing country's economic growth and international society needs the alternative principles.
This study conducted a case study of Kojima district in Japan, which underwent a rise and fall through the past booms, disruptive innovation, international politics, and changes in government policy. Today, the district has successfully regenerated, and the regeneration is linked to fashion localism. This study aimed to explore how the Kojima district sustained community-based fashion business and analyzed the factors that contributed to its regeneration from the slow fashion viewpoint. This study employed a case study analysis, using the storytelling approach, and established an analytical framework based on keywords derived from slow fashion, namely localism, quality, and value. The results indicate that the strategies of business leadership, improvement in quality, a willingness to address new challenges, success in authenticating strategies, clustering fashion business, path dependency, and maintaining workers and the fashion business community contributed to promoting a series of industrial structural adjustments in Kojima and sustaining the community-based fashion business.
Environmental problems at the global level have become a critical issue in today’s fashion industry. However, small-and medium-sized fashion business (SMFBs) encounter barriers in promoting green business owing to finances, professional expertise, knowledge, and technology. Therefore, innovative ideas are vital for SMFBs to effectively address constraints to compliance. The purpose of this research is to analyze how SMFBs develop the interactive nature of value propositions based on the case studies of the Onomichi Denim Project and the REKROW and addresses what elements are associated with value propositions based on the human-centered perspectives. This study collected data through face-to-face and remote interviews, and a review of the previous literature, including magazines, websites, and videos. This study identified four value elements contributing to value propositions: environmental value, embedded social value, synergetic value, and educational value. These elements developed through various forms of interaction, such as a unique co-production system embedding social ties and the establishment of a production-oriented circular economy. The study proposed value creation through value proposition as a strategy crucial to managing SMFBs.
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