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Fashionable Ethics: Exploring Ethical Perspectives in the Production, Marketing, and Consumption of Fashion
Summary
Researchers compiled a special collection of studies examining ethical issues in fashion production, marketing, and consumption through the lens of established ethical theories and frameworks. The work highlights how the industry must balance social justice with environmental responsibility, including concerns like plastic waste and greenwashing.
Abstract This Special Issue examines ethics in fashion to further critical understanding of the various drivers and barriers, nuances and layers of complexity in fashion production, marketing, and consumption, and aims toward a more future-oriented perspective through the lens of ethics. Research on ethical issues in fashion is growing but is fragmented across diverse domains, from supply chain and operations management, to psychology and sociology, to marketing and consumption. Furthermore, there has been only a peripheral focus on ethics and limited application of ethical theories or frameworks to fashion’s ethical dilemmas. This Special Issue brings together diverse domains and unpacks salient ethical issues using the lens of ethical theories and frameworks to advance theory development on balancing social justice with environmental responsibility, decision-making in ethical situations, and newer forms of greenwashing and consumerism. The selected papers use varied methodologies and offer novel insights across different global contexts.
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