The Interaction of Product-Service Systems (PSS) and Corporate Environmental Management (CEM): Can PSS Drive Today’s Fashion Industry Toward More Environmental Sustainability?

Marcus Adam (), Jochen Strähle () and Matthias Freise ()
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Marcus Adam: Faculty of Textile and Design, Reutlingen University, 72762 Reutlingen, Germany
Jochen Strähle: Faculty of Textile and Design, Reutlingen University, 72762 Reutlingen, Germany
Matthias Freise: Faculty of Textile and Design, Reutlingen University, 72762 Reutlingen, Germany

Service Science, 2017, vol. 9, issue 3, 235-249

Abstract: The fashion industry is well documented for causing significant environmental impact. Product-service systems (PSS) present a promising way to solve this challenge. PSS shift the focus toward complementary service offers, which decouples customer satisfaction from material consumption and entails dematerialization. However, PSS are not ecoefficient by nature but need to be accompanied by corporate environmental management (CEM) practices. The objective of this article is to examine the potential of PSS to contribute to the environmental sustainability of today’s fashion industry by investigating if fashion firms with a positive attitude toward PSS implementation also pursue goals related to the ecological environment. For this purpose, analysis of variance (ANOVA) is conducted to analyze data of 102 fashion firms. Results reveal that the diffusion of PSS in today’s fashion industry is low and few firms consider implementing PSS. Results, furthermore, demonstrate that PSS implementation is positively related to CEM. This indicates that existing structures of CEM favor PSS implementation and unlock the ecoefficient potential of implemented PSS in the fashion industry.

Keywords: product-service systems (PSS); corporate environmental management (CEM); fashion industry; environmental sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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