245 research outputs found
Design Dynamics. Navigating the new Complex Landscape of Omnichannel Fashion Retail
The fashion industry is entering the dynamic global competitive market, promoting various actions prioritising design, creativity, sustainability, and technological advancement as pivotal factors. At the same time, it is reimagining its business models to adapt to the changing landscape. The rise of pervasive connectivity, intuitive interfaces and innovative interaction channels has triggered a revolution in fashion retail, reshaping customer behaviour and expectations. The traditional retail framework has evolved into a fully interconnected omnichannel system. This transformation is characterised by the proliferation of physical and virtual channels and touch points and by the adoption of a more flexible and integrated approach.
In this dynamic context, design plays a central role, possessing the ability to impart meaning to the production and distribution system. Design-led innovation represents an incremental form of innovation that injects a nuanced range of meaning into the marketplace, extending beyond tangible objects, including discourses, expressions, narratives, visual images, symbols, metaphors, and spaces.
The book analyses the multifaceted nature of the fashion retail experience through the lens of the design discipline, aiming to contextualise the evolution of retail within increasingly complex processes, networks and interconnections, both theoretically and practically. The focus is on retail design, delving into the new skills required and the valuable tools needed to apply them in inherently multidisciplinary contexts. Ultimately, the aim is to navigate the intricate terrain of retail evolution and shed light on the evolving role of design in this multifaceted sector
Fashion industry: an innovative path towards sustainability
The fashion industry is a worldwide multibillion-dollar enterprise devoted to the business of making and selling clothes and accessories. Luxury and fast fashion markets are just two of the many possible markets that could be made by segmenting the fashion industry. Although being considered opposite, both of them base their way of doing business and making profits on linear economyâs principles such as the âtake-make-wasteâ business model or the traditional linear supply chain. Hence, sustainability in all its three dimensions (environmental, economic, and social) is still not considered the guiding core value at the basis, or at the centre, of the executive and operational decision-making process of the majority of fashion firms all over the world. This choice is easily observable in the detrimental environmental and social impacts generated by the actors involved in the various step along the entire textile and clothing value chain, from the raw material production and extraction until the final disposal by the end-consumers. Exactly the clothing waste management and the lack of recycling or closed loop (where scraps or discarded items are reintroduced as inputs in a new lifecycle, thus avoiding the need of new virgin resources) processes during end-life stage of fashion items are among the issues that the fashion should fix to become more sustainable in the near future. These are efforts asked to both upstream and downstream fashionâs involved actors, which substantially consist of a business (and consumption) process innovation that can occur through the adoption of sustainable or circular business models such as resale, rental, remaking or repair. In the proposed work all the above mentioned topics are recalled through a deeper analysis
Sustainability in design: now! Challenges and opportunities for design research, education and practice in the XXI century
Copyright @ 2010 Greenleaf PublicationsLeNS project funded by the Asia Link Programme, EuropeAid, European Commission
Transitioning the Fashion Industry towards Sustainability
A growing body of literature addresses fashion industry's sustainability problems including resource depletion, toxic emissions, and unfair labour practices. The impacts of these sustainability problems only multiply with the ever-growing number of garments being produced. However, there is a difference between fashion and clothing consumption, which is often overlooked due to a lack of language but must be recognized to better understand the drivers of consumption. Based on literature from the fields of fashion, sociology, and political economy, this research identifies why mass-consumption of clothing has become such a resilient part of the global economy; it then goes on to explore how to reduce textile waste through innovations such as social innovation. Textile waste is a symptom of consumption, mismanagement of unwanted textiles, and a lack of technology in recycling the material. This dissertation proposes a circular economy approach to reducing textile waste. It does so by leveraging insights from Social-Ecological System (SES) literature to argue that solutions must recognise that the fashion industry is a complex social-ecological system comprised of interactions between interdependent subsystems. Moreover, this paper analyses innovations in the fashion system and uses social innovation theory to study social innovation cases to distinguish transformative approaches to textile waste and sustainable fibre production. While describing the role of the social entrepreneurs and system entrepreneurs in building these innovations, challenges are identified to scaling these innovations out, up, or deep to reflect the innovationsâ status. To better understand the transitioning process of the industry, the multi-level perspective from transition management is used to recognize the system dynamics. This research uses qualitative and quantitative research methods (i.e., semi-structured interviews, life stories, surveys, and on-site observations). It contributes to the knowledge of how to transition the fashion industry towards sustainability. Additionally, it helps close the research gap on how to tackle textile waste while acknowledging the difference between the terms fashion and clothes, different sustainable fashion concepts, and the various stakeholders' roles in the fashion system
Relational Benefits, Customer Satisfaction, And Customer Loyalty In Chain Store Restaurants
[[abstract]]This study aims to investigate the structural relationships among relational benefits, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty in the chain store restaurants. Based on a theoretical background literature review, three types of customer relational benefits were determined: psychological, social, and special treatment benefits. Theoretical relationships among relational benefits, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty were derived from the review of literature, and a theoretical model was proposed. The proposed model was then tested employing data collected from 267 customers of chain store restaurants. The results of subsequent analysis of the data indicated that relational benefits influence customer loyalty, and customer satisfaction with employees influence customer loyalty. In addition, the impact of which is partially mediated by satisfaction with employees. The managerial implications of these findings are discussed in the latter part of this article.[[notice]]èŁæŁćźçą[[incitationindex]]EI[[booktype]]é»ć
An aesthetic for sustainable interactions in product-service systems?
Copyright @ 2012 Greenleaf PublishingEco-efficient Product-Service System (PSS) innovations represent a promising approach to sustainability. However the application of this concept is still very limited because its implementation and diffusion is hindered by several barriers (cultural, corporate and regulative ones). The paper investigates the barriers that affect the attractiveness and acceptation of eco-efficient PSS alternatives, and opens the debate on the aesthetic of eco-efficient PSS, and the way in which aesthetic could enhance some specific inner qualities of this kinds of innovations. Integrating insights from semiotics, the paper outlines some first research hypothesis on how the aesthetic elements of an eco-efficient PSS could facilitate user attraction, acceptation and satisfaction
SHELDON Smart habitat for the elderly.
An insightful document concerning active and assisted living under different perspectives: Furniture and habitat, ICT solutions and Healthcare
The professions in early modern England, 1450-1800.
Please see page 251 of PDF for this review.To review a work which cites one's name in both acknowledgments and text is probably imprudent and quite possibly unethical. On the other hand, a rigorous self-denying ordinance would have drastic implications for the viability of academic book reviewing. Further justification for proceeding in the present instance is that Professor O'Day's references to my own work are not wholly one-sided, either praise or criticism. The following assessment of her latest book will seek to adopt an equally balancedâif not âprofessionalââapproach.Wilfrid Pres
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