Operations Management in the Era of Fast Fashion: Technologies and Circular Supply Chains (Springer Series in Fashion Business) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811911762 ISBN 13: 9789811911767

Publisher: Springer, 2022

Synopsis

This book reports the latest business practices, operations models, technologies and circular supply chain structure of the fast fashion companies and provides many important managerial insights on the sustainable operations management in the fast fashion era. Sustainability is a timely topic in both the academia and the business world. In the fast fashion era, there are considerable criticisms about its environmental pollution generated in the manufacturing and post-consumption processes. Over the past decades, many fast fashion companies, such as H&M, Zara, and Uniqlo, have implemented different sustainable programs to mitigate the negative impacts to the environment. Nowadays, the industry is moving one step further by addressing zero landfill through 3Rs principle (i.e., reducing, reusing and recycling), and pursuit of the circular supply chains. This book aims to reveal the exploratory, qualitative empirical and quantitative analytical studies on how to achieve the goal ofbeing environmentally sustainable in the fast fashion era.

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About the Author

Hau-Ling Chan Division of Business and Hospitality Management, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Shuyun Ren School of Art and Design, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China 

Na Liu Business School, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing, China

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This book reports the latest business practices, operations models, technologies and circular supply chain structure of the fast fashion companies and provides many important managerial insights on the sustainable operations management in the fast fashion era. Sustainability is a timely topic in both the academia and the business world. In the fast fashion era, there are considerable criticisms about its environmental pollution generated in the manufacturing and post-consumption processes. Over the past decades, many fast fashion companies, such as H&M, Zara, and Uniqlo, have implemented different sustainable programs to mitigate the negative impacts to the environment. Nowadays, the industry is moving one step further by addressing zero landfill through 3Rs principle (i.e., reducing, reusing and recycling), and pursuit of the circular supply chains. This book aims to reveal the exploratory, qualitative empirical and quantitative analytical studies on how to achieve the goal ofbeing environmentally sustainable in the fast fashion era.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811911762
• ISBN 13: 9789811911767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: Chan Hau-Ling, Ren Shuyun, Liu Na