Fashion-driven Textiles as A Crystal of A New Stream for Stakeholder Capitalism – Amazon’s Endeavor
International Journal of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT) ISSN: 0975-5586 (Online); 0975-5926 (Print) http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/ijmit.html Vol.12, No.2, May 2020 Page No 19 to 42 Article: Fashion-driven Textiles as A Crystal of A New Stream for Stakeholder Capitalism – Amazon’s Endeavor Authors Chihiro Watanabe1, 2, Waleed Akhtar1, Yuji Tou3, Pekka Neittaanmäki1, 1 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, 3 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Abstract Fashion reflects changes in socio-economic and cultural life which, in turn, changes fashion, and apparel boosts such change. Thus, in response to a shift in people’s preferences from economic functionality to supra-functionality beyond an economic value, the fashion industry has been gaining momentum worldwide. In the digital economy, the fashion industry is in the midst of global dynamic change stimulating volatility, ...