2020
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241453
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Keystone actors do not act alone: A business ecosystem perspective on sustainability in the global clothing industry

Abstract: Global industries are typically dominated by a few disproportionately large and influential transnational corporations, or keystone actors. While concentration of economic production is not a new phenomenon, in an increasingly interconnected and globalized world, the scale of the impacts of keystone actors on diverse social-ecological systems continues to grow. In this article, we investigate how keystone actors in the global clothing industry engage in collaboration with a variety of other organizations to ad… Show more

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“…Indeed, inclusive, creative, and accelerated change will not occur at the speed needed as long as organizations lack the capabilities, purpose, metrics or desire to shift towards new pathways. We do, however, find emerging evidence of change at different scales, both in small enterprises and larger organizations, or so-called keystone actors in sustainability (Hileman et al 2020). As we begin to map and identify sustainability patterns, a lattice of positive changes can be observed, not sufficient to conclusively demonstrate transformation, but enough to illustrate how new practices and models can begin to replace some elements of existing regimes' unsustainable practices.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 67%
“…Indeed, inclusive, creative, and accelerated change will not occur at the speed needed as long as organizations lack the capabilities, purpose, metrics or desire to shift towards new pathways. We do, however, find emerging evidence of change at different scales, both in small enterprises and larger organizations, or so-called keystone actors in sustainability (Hileman et al 2020). As we begin to map and identify sustainability patterns, a lattice of positive changes can be observed, not sufficient to conclusively demonstrate transformation, but enough to illustrate how new practices and models can begin to replace some elements of existing regimes' unsustainable practices.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 67%
“…We collated information on 45 selected international 'Sustainable Fashion' initiatives, established 2000 to present. These consist of the fashion initiatives mentioned in the corporate sustainability reports published by the 16 businesses with more than $9 billion USD in market capital which Hileman and colleagues [13] identified as keystone actors of the textile fashion industry and the global initiatives for sustainable fashion reported on the map developed by the British Fashion Council [14]. We assessed information from the initiatives websites on their stated focus area(s), objective(s) and vision.…”
Section: Sustainability Initiativesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Fashion users, the social and cultural worlds they are part of and the nestedness of the material and non-material parts of their choices all play a vital role in controlling the 'return flow' of usable materials to the system. Yet very few sustainable fashion initiatives focus on fashion users, and none of the keystone actors assessed by Hileman et al [13] collaborates with user-focused initiatives.…”
Section: Materials 'Take-make-waste' Perspectives Miss the Powerful Role Of Usersmentioning
confidence: 99%
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