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• Sustainability performance evaluation systems in the fashion industry – A critical review from the perspective of micro and small enterprises

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  Klára Edőcsény

  Gábor Harangozó

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  The fashion industry faces significant environmental and social challenges related to sustainability globally, while sustainability performance assessment frameworks are predominantly tailored to large companies. The aim of this study is to critically analyse these frameworks from the perspective of micro and small enterprises, which represent a significant part of the fashion industry, but still are excluded from the available performance assessment frameworks. The research is based on a qualitative analysis and examines five main international evaluation systems along the dimensions of relevance, impact potential, simplicity and data accessibility. The results show that these tools are overly complex, costly and often irrelevant to the functioning of micro and small enterprises. The conclusion of the study is that there is a need to develop a simpler, context-sensitive sustainability performance assessment framework, tailored to the needs of the target group and the fashion industry, which could help these enterprises to self-assess their sustainability performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

  JEL codes: D12, Q56, Q58.