This international conference seeks to expand the understanding of supply chain and operations management in Luxury, Fashion and Design, and to extend theoretical and managerial insights into how sustainable, innovative, and strategic operations could be addressed. Topics that are of interest include but are not limited to:

Design & Innovation

• Integration of sustainability, innovation, collaboration in product design
• Decisions about the trade-offs and interactions in product design
• Collaboration for sustainable products
• Collaboration platforms

Operations management

• Purchasing strategies and practices for luxury fashion companies
• Fragmentation of production and operations management in luxury fashion
• Organizational structure – centralized vs. decentralized operations – of fashion & design retailers
• Retail store operations in fashion & design – planning and execution including inventory, pricing, sales force planning, store design, and store location
• Digital technologies and Industry 4.0
• Interfaces of retail operations with other functions such as finance, human resources, marketing, and strategy
• The impact of sustainability on operational performance

Supply Chain Management

• Responsive and reconfigurable supply chain management strategies in luxury fashion
• Supply network complexity in fashion & design industry
• Contract design and network coordination
• Green and Digital Supply Chain
• E-commerce and last mile delivery
• Sustainability measurement and management across fashion and design supply chains
• Sustainable supply chain management and governance in fashion and design companies

Marketing

• Consumers perspective about sustainability
• Green washing vs real sustainability

Strategy

• Relationship between business models, brand strategy and channel design
• Drivers for Sustainability transformation
• Sustainability transformation roadmaps

Authors are invited to submit their original research relevant to the conference themes.

Participants can contribute to the conference in different ways, as follows.

• COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC PAPERS
  • Competitive papers should be conceptual or empirical papers that are, in principle, submission-ready. (max. number of pages: 15).
• WORKING / PRACTITIONER PAPERS
  • Working papers indicate “work in progress”. These papers can report on empirical or conceptual research. (max. number of pages: 10).
  • Practitioner papers can only be submitted by practitioners (although academics can be included) and should be based on best practice approaches within and/or across organisations and cannot be in the form of commercial promotional material for a business or product (max. number of pages: 10)