Survey study reveals supply shortages and leadership gaps in luxury fashion, highlighting primary targets for sustainable sourcing reform.
Key Points
Identify, validate, and prioritize the primary implementation barriers to sustainable sourcing across the global apparel and fashion-luxury sectors.
Surveyed 154 global sustainable sourcing professionals using a structured questionnaire.
Categorized 20 identified implementation barriers into six distinct dimensions using exploratory factor analysis (EFA).
Calculated priority rankings for barrier dimensions and individual barriers using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP).
Identified management, government support, and infrastructure barriers as the highest-priority dimension, followed in order by material, financial, and supplier barriers.
Ranked undersupply of sustainable raw materials, insufficient top-management commitment, and inadequate awareness as the top three individual barriers globally.