Designing An Ethical Decision-Making Model for Consumers in the Clothing Industry
Akhlāq-i zīstī i.e., Bioethics Journal,
Vol. 12 No. 1 (1401),
3 December 2022
,
Page 1-14
https://doi.org/10.22037/bioeth.v12i1.42735
Abstract
Background and Aim: The context of the ethical decision-making model in the clothing industry is to understand and examine the ethical effects of processes and decisions related to the design, production, distribution and consumption of clothing. This model tries to help companies and organizations related to the clothing industry to make their decisions with ethical consideration and to consider the ethical consequences of their actions.
Methods: The current research is practical and a mixed exploratory method was used in it, in the qualitative part, the strategy of thematic analysis was used. The statistical population of the qualitative part included 14 academic and garment industry experts who were selected in a targeted non-probability way. The statistical population was 288 out of the 300 distributed questionnaires. Interviews and questionnaires were used in this research; qualitative data analysis was done through open, central and selective three-stage coding and Maxqda 20 software and in the quantitative part through confirmatory factor analysis and Smart Pls3 software.
Ethical Considerations: After obtaining permission from the academic and garment industry experts and stating the objectives for the participants, their consent was obtained and they were assured about the confidentiality of the information.
Results: The results of this research led to the identification of 6 categories including strategies (government policy making, empowering the business environment), intervening factors (social relations, government policies), consequences (sustainable development in the country, increasing the power and strength of sellers and producers, improving the quality level) and quantity of customers, background factors (individual and environmental factors), causal factors (internal and external factors) and consumer ethical decision-making (supporting national production, ethical decision-making approaches, avoiding extravagance and luxury, applied environmental ethics) became these findings were also confirmed in the quantitative phase.
Conclusion: It is necessary that all social units in the country, from the individual level to the government, focus on the need for ethical decision-making so that this issue is also reflected in consumers.
- Bioethics, ethical decision making, consumer, clothing industry.
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