Managing the Environmental Impacts of Small Businesses Manufacturing Women’s Leather Dress Footwear in Colombia

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ID21194698
AuthorsMauricio Quintero-Angel (0000-0003-3680-7458, ORCID), Claudia Cecilia Peña-Montoya (0000-0001-5167-5145, ORCID)
Year2020
Volume12
Issue3
Pages394-420
Publication date2020-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFashion Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1756-9370 • E-ISSN: 1756-9389
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17569370.2020.1804149
OpenAlexW3080736463
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited33

Given the growing global demand for footwear, its increasingly shorter life cycle, the billions of pairs of shoes sold and the negative environmental impacts in the shoe supply chain, this paper explores the negative environmental impact in the stages of the life cycle of leather dress footwear and proposals to reduce them, taking the process of manufacturing handmade women’s leather dress shoes in small Colombian companies as an example. The MET (material, energy, toxicity) matrix was used for the qualitative life cycle analysis along with information from unstructured interviews and from observing the production process. The actions to reduce environmental impacts were processed via a systematized information search. The results show that production and end of life stages have the greatest impacts, and actors in the supply chain must be integrated to effectively manage the materials. Furthermore, proposals to reduce negative environmental impacts were presented as a way to improve environmental performance

Business · Economics · Environmental impact assessment · Life-cycle assessment · Operations management · Supply chain · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Impact and Sustainability · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Marketing

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