Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Circularity: Stakeholder Collaboration in Textile SMEs in Indonesia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31098/ijeass.v4i2.2434Keywords:
Challenges, Circular Supply Chain; Stakeholder Collaboration; Sustainable Entrepreneurship; Textile SMEsAbstract
The textile industry is a significant contributor to environmental degradation, leading to an increasing emphasis on sustainable entrepreneurship and circular supply chains. This qualitative case study examines the experiences of textile-based SMEs in Indonesia who use shredded fabric from larger textile industries to create new fashion products. The urgency of this study lies in understanding the challenges faced by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in textile-based circular supply chains, particularly in their collaboration with stakeholders. The in-depth interviews with five SME owners, two consumers, a supplier, a government official, and a CSO activist uncovered several critical challenges, including limited availability and access to shredded-fabric and inconsistent quality and quantity of the raw material, transforming the shredded-fabric into finished fashion products, reaching SMEs’ target market and promoting their products effectively, and the management of small leftover fabric pieces from production, referred to as “tatal.” The study proposes the following strategies to address the challenges: foster trust and transparency with suppliers, reactivate the joint business cooperative, work with government agencies and policymakers to establish customized support and regulatory structures, collaborate with government agencies and academic institutions, expand the market for tatal waste beyond the arts, and partner with the Department of the Environment to manage tatal waste. The findings contribute to the academic literature on sustainable entrepreneurship and provide practical insights for SMEs, policymakers, and industry stakeholders to enhance the circularity of textile supply chains.
References
Abreu, M. C. S. de, Ferreira, F. N. H., Proença, J. F., & Ceglia, D. (2021). Collaboration in achieving sustainable solutions in the textile industry. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 36(9). https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-01-2020-0041
Amaral, M. C. Do, Zonatti, W. F., Da Silva, K. L., Junior, D. K., Neto, J. A., & Baruque-Ramos, J. (2018). Industrial textile recycling and reuse in Brazil: Case study and considerations concerning the circular economy. Gestao e Producao, 25(3), 431–443. https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-530X3305
Aus, R., Moora, H., Vihma, M., Unt, R., Kiisa, M., & Kapur, S. (2021). Designing for circular fashion: integrating upcycling into conventional garment manufacturing processes. Fashion and Textiles, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40691-021-00262-9
Awan, U., & Sroufe, R. (2022). Sustainability in the Circular Economy: Insights and Dynamics of Designing Circular Business Models. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 12(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031521
Bashir, I., Hassan, M., & Arif, M. (2022). Integrating the Relationship between Stakeholder’s Perspective and Corporate Sustainability: A Literature Review. Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.26710/jafee.v8i2.2372
Belz, F. M., & Binder, J. K. (2017). Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Convergent Process Model. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.1887
Brydges, T. (2021). Closing the loop on take, make, waste: Investigating circular economy practices in the Swedish fashion industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126245
Chapin, F. S., Weber, E. U., Bennett, E. M., Biggs, R., van den Bergh, J., Adger, W. N., Crépin, A. S., Polasky, S., Folke, C., Scheffer, M., Segerson, K., Anderies, J. M., Barrett, S., Cardenas, J. C., Carpenter, S. R., Fischer, J., Kautsky, N., Levin, S. A., Shogren, J. F., … de Zeeuw, A. (2022). Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts. Ambio, 51(9). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01721-3
Chowdhury, P., & Shumon, R. (2020). Minimizing the gap between expectation and ability: Strategies for smes to implement social sustainability practices. Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(16). https://doi.org/10.3390/SU12166408
Coelho, L., Isabel Magalhães, A., Fernandes, S., Batista, P., Pintado, M., Faria, P., Costa, C., Moura, B., Marinho, A., Maria, R., Reis, A., Carvalho, M., Marques, M., Teles, Â., De Almeida Morgado, J., Helena Vilaça, M., Alexandra Pereira, J., Magalhães, P. J., Sofia Silva, A., … Malgueiro, R. (2020). Innovation of Textiles through Natural By-Products and Wastes. In Waste in Textile and Leather Sectors. IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93011
Coscieme, L., Manshoven, S., Gillabel, J., Grossi, F., & Mortensen, L. F. (2022). A framework of circular business models for fashion and textiles: the role of business-model, technical, and social innovation. Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2083792
Guillot, J. D. (2022). The impact of textile production and waste on the environment (infographic). European Parliament.
Haldar, S. (2019). Towards a conceptual understanding of sustainability-driven entrepreneurship. In Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (Vol. 26, Issue 6). https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1763
Hossain, S. (2021). Factors Influencing Sustainable Entrepreneurial Practices: Looking at Individual-Level Factors through Conventional Entrepreneurial Perspectives. The International Journal of Business & Management, 9(8). https://doi.org/10.24940/theijbm/2021/v9/i8/bm2108-046
Jia, F., Yin, S., Chen, L., & Chen, X. (2020). The circular economy in the textile and apparel industry: A systematic literature review. In Journal of Cleaner Production (Vol. 259). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120728
Kazancoglu, I., Kazancoglu, Y., Kahraman, A., Yarimoglu, E., & Soni, G. (2022). Investigating barriers to circular supply chain in the textile industry from Stakeholders’ perspective. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 25(4–5). https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2020.1846694
Kazancoglu, I., Kazancoglu, Y., Yarimoglu, E., & Kahraman, A. (2020). A conceptual framework for barriers of circular supply chains for sustainability in the textile industry. Sustainable Development, 28(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2100
Koszewska, M. (2018). Circular Economy - Challenges for the Textile and Clothing Industry. Autex Research Journal, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.1515/aut-2018-0023
Lawrence, J., Bettinetti, R., Torretta, V., & Rada, E. C. (2023). Investigating the effectiveness of clothes recovery programs in promoting a circular economy: A review. E3S Web of Conferences, 408. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202340801002
Moore, S. B., & Manring, S. L. (2009). Strategy development in small and medium sized enterprises for sustainability and increased value creation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2008.06.004
Oelze, N. (2017). Sustainable supply chain management implementation-enablers and barriers in the textile industry. Sustainability (Switzerland), 9(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/su9081435
Raut, R., Gardas, B. B., & Narkhede, B. (2019). Ranking the barriers of sustainable textile and apparel supply chains: An interpretive structural modelling methodology. Benchmarking, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-12-2017-0340
Remund, D. L., & McKeever, B. W. (2018). Forging effective corporate/nonprofit partnerships for CSR programs. Journal of Communication Management, 22(3). https://doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-08-2017-0084
Rizos, V., Behrens, A., van der Gaast, W., Hofman, E., Ioannou, A., Kafyeke, T., Flamos, A., Rinaldi, R., Papadelis, S., Hirschnitz-Garbers, M., & Topi, C. (2016). Implementation of circular economy business models by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Barriers and enablers. Sustainability (Switzerland), 8(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/su8111212
Sandvik, I. M., & Stubbs, W. (2019). Circular fashion supply chain through textile-to-textile recycling. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMM-04-2018-0058
Sarasi, V., Primiana, I., Harsanto, B., & Satyakti, Y. (2023). Sustainable supply chain of Indonesia’s textile & apparel industry: opportunities and challenges. In Research Journal of Textile and Apparel. https://doi.org/10.1108/RJTA-08-2022-0091
Sesini, G., Castiglioni, C., & Lozza, E. (2020). New trends and patterns in sustainable consumption: A systematic review and research agenda. In Sustainability (Switzerland) (Vol. 12, Issue 15). https://doi.org/10.3390/SU12155935
Shahid, M. S., Hossain, M., Shahid, S., & Anwar, T. (2023). Frugal innovation as a source of sustainable entrepreneurship to tackle social and environmental challenges. Journal of Cleaner Production, 406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137050
Staicu, D., & Pop, O. (2018). Mapping the interactions between the stakeholders of the circular economy ecosystem applied to the textile and apparel sector in Romania. Management and Marketing, 13(4). https://doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2018-0031
Downloads
Article Metrics
- 0 times
- 0 times
Published
Citation Check
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Ambar Istiyani, Yanuar Surya Putra, Novita Dian Pramesti
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Content Licensing, Copyright, and Permissions
1. License
International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) has CC-BY NC or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work for non-commercial purposes. The non-commercial use of the article will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution license as currently displayed on Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Creative Commons License
2. Author’s Warranties
The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author(s), has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author(s).
3. User Rights
International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) objective is to disseminate articles published are as free as possible. Under the Creative Commons license, this journal permits users to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes only. Users will also need to attribute authors and this journal on distributing works in the journal.
4. Rights of Authors
Authors retain the following rights:
Copyright, and proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
The right to use the substance of the article in future own works, including lectures and books, The right to reproduce the article for own purposes, The right to self-archive the article, the right to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article's published version (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal (International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) ).
The author has a non-exclusive publishing contract with a publisher and the work is published with a more restrictive license, the author retains all the rights to publish the work elsewhere, including commercially, because she/he is not subject to the conditions of her / his own license, regardless of the type of CC license chosen.
5. Co-Authorship
If the article was jointly prepared by other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.
6. Termination
This agreement can be terminated by the author or International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) two months’ notice where the other party has materially breached this agreement and failed to remedy such breach within a month of being given the terminating party’s notice requesting such breach to be remedied. No breach or violation of this agreement will cause this agreement or any license granted in it to terminate automatically or affect the definition of International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS).
7. Royalties
This agreement entitles the author to no royalties or other fees. To such extent as legally permissible, the author waives his or her right to collect royalties relative to the article in respect of any use of the article by This agreement can be terminated by the author or International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) upon two months’ notice where the other party has materially breached this agreement and failed to remedy such breach within a month of being given the terminating party’s notice requesting such breach to be remedied. No breach or violation of this agreement will cause this agreement or any license granted in it to terminate automatically or affect the definition of the International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) or its sublicensee.
8. Miscellaneous
International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) will publish the article (or have it published) in the journal if the article’s editorial process is successfully completed and the International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) or its sublicensee has become obligated to have the article published. International Journal of Entrpreneurship and Sustainability Studies (IJEASS) may conform the article to a style of punctuation, spelling, capitalization, referencing, and usage that it deems appropriate. The author acknowledges that the article may be published so that it will be publicly accessible and such access will be free of charge for the readers
