Institutional disruption in the fashion industry: eliminating the usage of hazardous chemicals

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2025-3-27

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Akkocaoğlu, Sinem

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The textile industry is one of the most pollutant industries and has crucial negative impacts on people and the planet due to hazardous chemicals. This research aims to reveal the actors and their institutional disruption work towards eliminating those harmful chemicals in the textile production processes in Türkiye. A qualitative research design was adopted and 24 interviews were conducted with key players in the field. It is analyzed that brands are the main actors and their requirements from their value chain partners, especially audits and training, play a crucial role in dislodging the embedded practice of using hazardous chemicals in textile production. Their strategies and targets are backed by the laws and regulations, NGO campaigns and remarks, and demands of end users. Manufacturers, chemical producers, standard-setting organizations and initiatives, intermediary buying agents, service providers, and technology developers were identified as other key actors, and their institutional disruption works were underlined. Gender-related issues were also investigated in the scope of this study. This research contributes to the institutional disruption literature in settings where sustainability is a crucial aspect and paves the way for future research towards the institutional creation work regarding the usage of hazardous chemicals.

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Institutional work, Institutional disruption, Textile industry, Hazardous chemicals, Gender

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114192

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis