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This paper aims to develop a proposal for implementing the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in a large Portuguese company that operates in the textile sector, intending to promote its subsequent implementation. Through a qualitative research approach, a case study was carried out, using interviews,...
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Every year, businesses devote a substantial portion of their funds to purchase digital human resource management systems. The area is rapidly evolving, and a growing number of businesses are investing in e-HRM. The failure to embrace new technologies caused problems to textile sector to satisfy...
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Under the mainframe of current consumption patterns and large supply chains based on profit making practices and conventional technologies, resource and energy management are key topics for sustainable development. Enhancing the resource/energy efficiency is decisive to achieve appropriate...
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Background: In the current political discourse, supply chain transparency is seen as a key to improving the working and environmental conditions within textile supply chains. Addition- ally, the use of technology is increasingly being regarded as a means of reducing complexity and increasing...
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In this paper, we investigate the scale of the drop in American imports after it imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese goods. Our analysis spans the whole period of Donald Trump's presidency (January 2017 - January 2021). In contrast to existing studies, which are mainly devoted to the impact of...
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The European Union has implemented various trade policies in the textile and clothing sector, a major global employment generator, over the past three decades. This paper investigates how these evolving policies have impacted the four largest exporters of textiles and clothing to the EU. A...
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The EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles envisages "a circular textiles ecosystem that has sufficient capacities for innovative fibre-to-fibre recycling, while the incineration and landfilling of textiles is reduced to the minimum". The general objective of this study is to...
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The Waste Framework Directive (WFD) mandates that from 2025, EU Member States must establish separate collection systems for used textiles. This briefing provides an overview of the current state of textile waste generation, collection systems, treatment capacity and the different...
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The textiles and clothing ecosystem encompass all activities that help transform natural and manmade fibres into yarns and fabrics and use these to produce a range of final products - from clothes, carpets, home textiles to industrial filters and medical textiles. The textiles sector in Europe...
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Technical textiles include textiles, fibres, materials, and support materials that meet technical criteria, with applications for defence (e.g. protective garments), security (e.g. uniforms) and health (e.g. face masks, gowns and drapers).
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