TY  - INPR
TI  - Working along the value chain for circular economy transitions in fashion textiles: A participatory framework
SN  - 0959-6526
Y1  - 2024/05/24/
AV  - restricted
N2  - The textile industry's resource use, waste, and emissions have led to severe scrutiny, worsened by fast fashion's rise, making clothing disposable. The circular economy (CE) offers a solution to address these issues but achieving circular fashion requires systemic and comprehensive stakeholder engagement across the value chain. Current research often overlooks wider stakeholders beyond internal company members, neglecting calls to incorporate a systems perspective in CE transitions. Moreover, the potential of stakeholder engagement for social learning, where stakeholders mutually share and acquire knowledge, remains largely untapped. To this end, this paper provides a systematic methodology of stakeholder engagement based on an empirical setting of transition towards CE in fashion textiles in London. It entails identifying contexts, aligning stakeholders? actions, negotiating interventions, and communicating insights effectively. Based on the learnings from an empirical stakeholder engagement process, findings suggest a lack of alignment in the understanding of the CE concept across actors, that is underpinned by a fragmented knowledge of the overall value chain, often leading to also fragmented siloed policy approaches. While this paper uses fashion textiles as an illustrative case study, the process-led framework is largely applicable across different areas of the CE transition.
ID  - discovery10192895
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142627
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
KW  - Circular economy
KW  -  circular fashion
KW  -  stakeholder engagement
KW  -  participatory framework
KW  - 
social learning
PB  - Elsevier BV
JF  - Journal of Cleaner Production
A1  - Mahanty, Sampriti
A1  - Domenech, Teresa
ER  -