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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

Qualification as corporate activism : How Swedish apparel retailers attach circular fashion qualities to take-back systems

Author

  • Hervé Corvellec
  • Herman Stål

Summary, in English

This paper explains how corporations can develop market-based activities to influence environmental policies. The empirical focus is on how Swedish apparel retailers qualify take-back systems for used clothes and textiles as steps toward creating circular fashion. An analysis of the qualities that retailers attach to take-back systems shows how qualification helps corporations feature fashion as potentially sustainable and able to develop circular material flows, with the aim to enroll staff, customers, and other stakeholders in new behaviors and patterns of responsibility. We apply the notion of corporate activism to demonstrate how corporations use qualification to engage in market-based activities with the aim of influencing the regulatory agenda.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2019-08-09

Language

English

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volume

35

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • Corporate political action
  • corporate activism
  • Qualification
  • Take-back systems
  • Apparel

Status

Published

Project

  • From waste management to waste prevention. Closing implementation gaps through sustainable action nets
  • Signs of the future show the way

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0956-5221