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Luxury products and services and the sustainable value chain: six management lessons from Gucci

Luxury products and services and the sustainable value chain: six management lessons from Gucci
Luxury products and services and the sustainable value chain: six management lessons from Gucci
This chapter investigates the case for the re-moralisation of the idea of luxury and thus for the re-moralisation of luxury products and services through a consideration of luxury products and services and the ‘sustainable value chain’, a concept that incorporates a company’s production system and its impact on its stakeholders from shareholders, customers and suppliers to local communities and national governments. Following a discussion of the idea of luxury and the nature of luxury products and services, the idea of sustainability is considered before the sustainable value chain is explored in the context of the production of luxury products and services. The sustainable practices of the Italian luxury brand Gucci are then explored and six management lessons derived from Gucci’s experience are outlined for all luxury businesses.
259-279
Springer Singapore
Armitage, John
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Roberts, Joanne
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Dhillon, Yasmin Sekhon
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Gardetti, Miguel
Armitage, John
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Roberts, Joanne
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Dhillon, Yasmin Sekhon
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Gardetti, Miguel

Armitage, John, Roberts, Joanne and Dhillon, Yasmin Sekhon (2017) Luxury products and services and the sustainable value chain: six management lessons from Gucci. In, Gardetti, Miguel (ed.) Sustainable Management of Luxury. (Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes) Singapore. Springer Singapore, pp. 259-279. (doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2917-2_12).

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This chapter investigates the case for the re-moralisation of the idea of luxury and thus for the re-moralisation of luxury products and services through a consideration of luxury products and services and the ‘sustainable value chain’, a concept that incorporates a company’s production system and its impact on its stakeholders from shareholders, customers and suppliers to local communities and national governments. Following a discussion of the idea of luxury and the nature of luxury products and services, the idea of sustainability is considered before the sustainable value chain is explored in the context of the production of luxury products and services. The sustainable practices of the Italian luxury brand Gucci are then explored and six management lessons derived from Gucci’s experience are outlined for all luxury businesses.

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Accepted/In Press date: 30 July 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 February 2017
Published date: 2017
Organisations: Winchester School of Art

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Local EPrints ID: 398735
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/398735
PURE UUID: d2079ba8-65ba-4acf-9a59-50a9ba48e253
ORCID for John Armitage: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5533-197X
ORCID for Joanne Roberts: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5337-1698

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Date deposited: 01 Aug 2016 12:45
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:46

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Author: John Armitage ORCID iD
Author: Joanne Roberts ORCID iD
Editor: Miguel Gardetti

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