TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Adam, Marcus
A1  - Strähle, Jochen
A1  - Freise, Matthias
T1  - The interaction of product-service systems (PSS) and corporate environment management (CEM): can PSS drive today's fashion industry toward more environmental sustainability?
JF  - Service science
N2  - 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 eco-efficient potential of implemented PSS in the fashion industry.
KW  - product-service systems (PSS)
KW  - corporate environmental management (CEM)
KW  - fashion industry
KW  - environmental sustainability
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 2164-3962
SS  - 2164-3962
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1287/serv.2017.0182
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1287/serv.2017.0182
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
SP  - 235
EP  - 249
S1  - 15
PB  - INFORMS
CY  - Hanover, Md.
ER  -