Goldmeier, Laura (2020) Barriers to environmental performance measurement – the perspective of sustainable enterprises of the fashion industry. Master thesis, Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE).
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Abstract
The hazardous impact of the fashion industry on the planet has become increasingly alarming. Mounting pressure to do something about it has led to an increasing body of traditional fashion firms to engage in greenwashing to burnish their image. In turn, this has created a need for sustainable enterprises to measure and demonstrate the environmental performance. So far, scholars have identified seven general challenges that occur during performance measurement which are only applicable to incumbents. Given that sustainable enterprises are fundamentally different to large traditional companies, the known challenges are not applicable to sustainable enterprises. To date, research has merely addressed the measurement challenges from the perspective of sustainable enterprises. Using a qualitative approach, this paper outlines the challenges from the perspective of B-Corp certified sustainable enterprises. Findings reveal that environmental performance measurement is a multi-level construct with micro-, meso- and macro- level challenges occurring which are overarched by inertia.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Folmer, E.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2020 12:03 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2020 12:03 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/11 |
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