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Sustainable Management of Luxury

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Miguel Angel Gardetti

    1. Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury , Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  • Highlights issues concerning management in luxury goods and related industries
  • Suggests business models to help companies manage sustainability and innovation in luxury
  • Helps consumers and customers appreciate innovations in luxury
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Sustainability and Business Management in Luxury Goods Companies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Redefining the Essence of Sustainable Luxury Management: The Slow Value Creation Model

      • Gulen Hashmi
      Pages 3-27

    3. The Strategic Role of Authenticity in the Luxury Business

      • Patricia Anna Hitzler, Günter Müller-Stewens
      Pages 29-60

    4. Creating a Culture of Shared Value Through Luxury Branding

      • Misha Pinkhasov, Rachna Joshi Nair
      Pages 61-80

    5. Sustainable Performance Management in High-End Luxury Goods Firms: The Use of the “Reputation-Clock” Model

      • France Riguelle, Didier Van Caillie
      Pages 81-104

  3. Sustainable Practices Within the Luxury Universe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Sustainable Luxury and Fashion: From Global Standardisation to Critical Customisation

      • Patrizia Calefato
      Pages 107-123

    3. Identifying the Luxury Sustainability Paradox: Three Steps Toward a Solution

      • Oliver P. Heil, Daniel André Langer
      Pages 125-144

    4. Strike a Pose: Luxury for Sustainability

      • Hakan Karaosman, Gustavo Morales-Alonso, Alessandro Brun
      Pages 145-161

    5. Sustainable Luxury in Hotels and Resorts: Is It Possible?

      • Gianna Moscardo
      Pages 163-189

    6. Diamonds, Development, and Dollars: A Case Study on a Newly Founded Gemological Lab in Botswana Aiming at Sustainable Community Empowerment

      • Thomaï Serdari
      Pages 191-210

    7. More Than Skin Deep: A Service Design Approach to Making the Luxury Personal Care Industry More Sustainable

      • R. Wakefield-Rann
      Pages 211-231

  4. Sustainable Luxury Business Practices: Different Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Promoting Sustainable Management: World Wildlife Fund’s Hybrid Strategy to Change the Luxury Industry

      • Graham Bullock
      Pages 235-255
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About this book

As this book is the first book worldwide in the "sustainable" management of luxury area, it highlights key aspects in the sustainable management of luxury based on presentations using different approaches, whether reflexive, empirical, hands-on or applied theory and cases.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury , Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Miguel Angel Gardetti

About the editor

Miguel Angel Gardetti (Ph.D.) has been the head of the Center for Study of Corporate Sustainability (IESC) since its foundation in 2002. He also holds the same position at the Center for Study of Sustainable Luxury. He is head professor in MBA and master’s programs both in Argentina and abroad. He has provided training within frameworks of executive education and in house programmes to CEOs and Corporate Managers both from domestic and multinational companies in Argentina and Latin America.
As to Luxury and Sustainability, he was the founder and director of the IE Award for Sustainability in the Premium & Luxury Sectors (currently it is developing the sixth edition of this prize). Also –in this field and as co-editor- he developed several publications such as, for example, a special issue on "Sustainable Luxury" within the framework of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship; the book titled “Sustainable Luxury: Managing Social and Environmental Performance In Iconic Brands” and the two volumes of the “Handbook of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion” (Springer). For his contributions in this field, he was granted the “Sustainable Leadership Award,” an award granted by the Indian World CSR Congress, last February in Bombay (India.)


He was a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body –the Board of the Argentine Chapter of The Global Compact- for two consecutive terms. He was co-founder of the Global Compact Chair in Argentina, and he was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact.

He has also coordinated tasks for the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation (private sector arm of the World Bank), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the United Nations (New York), and the World Resources Institute (USA).


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