Impacts and Insights of Circular Business Models’ Outsourcing Decisions on Textile and Fashion Waste Management

Summary

The aim of this study was to propose a novel multi-criteria decision model for sorting circular strategies into those that can be outsourced or not in adopters' and incumbents’ circular business models supported by a decision support system. Moreover, we compared them in real case studies to identify the main differences between their outsourcing decisions and their impacts on cleaner production for fashion waste management. This comparison resulted in insights that may support circular businesses worldwide to make consistent outsourcing decisions to fashion waste management, which is rarely explored in the literature with empirical evidence.

Speaker

Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil, he has experience in topics such as Multicriteria Decision Support, Negotiation, Group Decision and Conflict Resolution applied to Water Resources Management, Solid Waste Management, Reverse Logistics and Circular Economy. He is a collaborator of the DNW - Research Group on Management and Negotiation for Water Resources Planning (www.dnw.org.br), with national and international activities.

Scientific Organization

Profª. Raphaela Vidal