Textiles, Fashion and Sustainability

Miguel Angel Gardetti Ph.D. He has been the head of the Center for Study of Corporate Sustainability (IESC) since its foundation in 2002, and he also holds the same position at the Center for Study of Sustainable Luxury. He is head professor in MBA and master’s programs both in Argentina and abroad. He has provided training within frameworks of executive education and in house programmes to CEOs and Corporate Managers both from domestic and multinational companies in Argentina and Latin America.As to Luxury and Sustainability topics, he lectured at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), one of the top Business Schools in Europe. Moreover, he was a speaker in Identidad Uruguay, an event organised by the Universidad de Empresa (Montevideo), with a lecture on Fashion, Luxury, and Sustainability. He was the creator of the Best Performance in Sustainable Luxury in Latin America Award (at present evolving towards the Award in Sustainable Premium and Luxury at a global level). He developed also several publications in the area of ​​sustainable luxury.He was a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body –the Board of the Argentine Chapter of The Global Compact- for two consecutive terms. He was co-founder of the Global Compact Chair in Argentina, and he was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact. He has also coordinated tasks for the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation (private sector arm of the World Bank), the Netherlands Development Organisation, the United Nations (New York), and the World Resources Institute (USA.)

• Table of Contents Editorial: Tied into a Single Garment of DestinyDavid Cooperrider and Ronald Fry, Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, Case Western Reserve University, USA IntroductionMiguel Angel Gardetti and Ana Laura Torres, The Sustainable Textile Centre, Argentina Environmental Impacts in the Fashion Industry: A Life-cycle and Stakeholder FrameworkAnika Kozlowski, Michal Bardecki and Cory Searcy, Ryerson University, Canada Stakeholder Expectations for Environmental Performance within the Apparel Industry: The Urgency of Business ResponseMarsha A. Dickson, Yazbehl Waters and Dilia López-Gydosh, University of Delaware, USA American Seams: An Exploration of Hybrid Fast Fashion and Domestic Manufacturing Models in Relocalised Apparel ProductionAnuj Desai, Nedal Nassar and Marian Chertow, Yale University, USA How to Earn Money by Doing Good! Shared Value in the Apparel IndustryJulia Schmitt and Uta Renken, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany An Investigation into the Financial Return on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Apparel IndustryLynda L. Moore, Indrani de Silva and Sara Hartmann, Simmons School of Management, USA Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the Apparel Industry: The Case of manomamaHanna Plieth, HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany; Angelika C. Bullinger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and University of Pennsylvania, USA; Erik G. Hansen, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany