섬유· 패션기업의 지속가능성 실천 평가 연구

Abstract

The practice of sustainability is an important subject to integrate into the management, product planning,manufacturing by textile and fashion companies as well as consumption by end-users. This study shows anevaluation scale designed to assess the practical cases in order to suggest efficient and systematic methodsto fulfill the practice of sustainability in textile and fashion companies. First, companies should practice environmentalsustainability to use eco-friendly material and cleaner production, protect the environment, andsave natural resources. Second, social sustainability is required to fulfill social responsibility and ethicalneeds. Third, companies should perform various innovative activities, transparency in management, faircompetition and economic contribution in the local community in order to maintain economic sustainabilityto survive in industry. Finally, cultural sustainability should be fulfilled by textile and fashion companiesas part of the intellectual-cultural industry in a way that increases the importance of ethnic and culturaldiversity. Textile and fashion companies should fulfill four environmental, social, and economic culturalsustainable subjects in a balanced method to accomplish sustainability. The concerns and practices of environmentalsustainability are comparatively highly rated due to the analysis of the evaluation scale. However,cultural sustainability (a need of the times) is poorly rated and needs more attention. Therefore, theevaluation scale can be used as a standard tool to fulfill the sustainability of companies and brands from theviewpoint of improving poor and insufficiently sustainable items as well as balancing sustainability management.