Overview
- Highlights how sustainable luxury can be a vehicle for maintaining the balance between social development and a sustainable environment
- Explores how leadership and inspiration are crucial to promoting sustainability and innovation in the luxury sector
- Discusses the intricate relationship between different nationalities in maintaining the legacy of local craftsmanship in the area of sustainable luxury
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Miguel Angel Gardetti Ph.D. has been the head of the Center for Study of Corporate Sustainability (IESC) since its foundation in 2002, and 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.)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Luxury, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
Editors: Miguel Angel Gardetti, Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6716-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6715-0Published: 21 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4937-9Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6716-7Published: 07 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 207
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Textile Engineering, Engineering Design, Entrepreneurship, Operations Management, Industrial and Production Engineering