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Because of the growing pressure and expectations on companies' social and ecological responsibility from society, sustainability has become anincreasingly important aspect to integrate within companies. This study has analyzed how sustainability reporting can function as a tool for companiesto communicate their sustainability work. A content analysis was conducted on four of H&M Group’s sustainability reports from the years of 2002,2008, 2014 and 2020. Through the lens of a theoretical framework the analysis studied how the reports had changed over time, which themes couldbe distinguished and how they reflected good sustainability reporting according to science. The results of the analysis showed that H&M Group´ssustainability reports had an overall focus on responsibility, the value chain and the impact from external events. Furthermore, the focus shifted frombeing on the social aspects to including more of the ecological aspects over time. The results correlated with what science considers as good sustainability reporting. I och med samhällets ökande press och förväntningar på företags sociala och ekologiska ansvarstagande har hållbarhet blivit en allt viktigare del förföretag att integrera. Den här studien har analyserat hur hållbarhetsrapportering kan fungera som ett verktyg för företag att kommunicera sitt hållbarhetsarbete. En innehållsanalys genomfördes på fyra av H&M Group:s hållbarhetsrapporter, år 2002, 2008, 2014 samt 2020. Genom stöd i ettteoretiskt ramverk undersöktes hur rapporterna hade förändrats över tid, vilka teman som kunde ur-skiljas samt hur de återspeglade forskningens synpå god hållbarhetsrapportering. Resultatet påvisade att H&M Group:s hållbarhetsrapporter hade ett övergripande fokus på ansvarstagande, värdekedjan samt påverkan från omvärlden. Vidare skiftade fokus från att ligga på de sociala aspekterna till de ekologiska aspekterna i rapporterna övertid. Resultatet gick i linje med vad som, enligt forskningen, anses som god rapportering.

Yirminci yüzyılın son çeyreğinden itibaren ülke ve dünya genelinde meydana gelen birçok kriz, tabii olarak diğer sektörlerle birlikte Türk ihracatının önemli başatlarından tekstil sektörünü de etkilemiştir. Krizin etkilerine dair yapılan çalışmaların devamı niteliğindeki bu çalışmada, 2008 dünya ekonomik krizi sonrası dönemde tekstil sektörünün mali oranlar aracılığıyla finansal durum analizi yapılmıştır. Çalışmada, İMKB’ye kayıtlı 27 tekstil işletmesi ele alınmış, bu işletmelere ait 2006-2010 yılları arasındaki mali tablolar kullanılarak, finansal durum analizleri yapılmıştır. Yapılan analizler sonucunda tekstil sektörünün 2008 krizi sonrası dönemde; likidite oranlarında, faaliyet oranlarında ve mali yapı oranlarında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı artışlar olduğu belirlenmiştir. Kriz sonrası dönemde tekstil firmalarının karlılık oranlarlarının hala negatif olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu durum, kriz sonrası dönemde işletmelerin kârlılıklarının hala pozitife döndürülememesine rağmen, 2008 yılı ortalamalarına göre önemli iyileşmeler olduğu şeklinde yorumlanmıştır.

Este estudo objetivou verificar a percepção dos clientes varejistas de uma indústria do setor têxtil a respeito da qualidade dos serviços por ela prestados. Alguns estudos têm investigado a percepção da qualidade de produtos têxteis, porém ainda são incipientes os que analisam a percepção da qualidade dos serviços prestados por essas empresas. Pesquisas dessa natureza tornam-se importantes, pois, além de produzir e comercializar produtos, as indústrias do setor têxtil atuam na prestação de diferentes serviços a seus clientes, mesmo que agregados à venda dos produtos. A qualidade desses serviços pode se tornar um diferencial dessas empresas na satisfação de seus clientes, agregando valor aos produtos. Realizou-se um levantamento, por meio da aplicação de um questionário estruturado, baseado no modelo SERVQUAL, a 130 clientes varejistas de uma empresa têxtil. Para a análise dos dados, empregou-se estatística descritiva para identificar os gaps oriundos da análise deste modelo. O modelo SERVQUAL permitiu identificar os maiores gaps existentes entre expectativa e percepção da qualidade, o que pode auxiliar a empresa a definir prioridades e ações de melhoria. Nesse sentido, apresentaram-se algumas implicações gerenciais na empresa pesquisada. Este estudo também intenciona contribuir para que a empresa implante critérios explícitos de qualidade na prestação de serviços., This study aims to analyze the perception of the retail customers of a textile industry about the quality of services. Some studies have investigated the perception of quality of textile products, but are still incipient the studies that analyze the perceived quality of services provided by these companies. Researches of this nature become important because, besides of producing and marketing products, the textile industries also operate in providing various services to its customers, even those integrated in the sale of household products. The quality of these services can make a difference on how these companies obtain the satisfaction of its customers, adding value to products. We conducted a survey with the application of a structured questionnaire based on SERVQUAL model, on 130 retail customers of a textile company. For data analysis, descriptive statistics was used to identify the gaps in the analysis of this model. The SERVQUAL model has identified the major gaps between expectation and perception of quality, which can assist the company in defining priorities and actions for improvement. In this sense, are presented some managerial implications for the company studied. This study also intends to help the organization on implementing explicit criteria of quality in service delivery.

In this bachelor work I attend to an impact of the transformation process and the actual trends of the textile industry in the Czech Republic in the connection with the world global crisis. This work defines basic processes and phenomena related to the issue of localization of the industrial enterprises, it explains the historical development of this line and assesses the stages by which the textile industry has gone through. It also maps the textile industry in the revolutionary year, deals with the beginnings of the transformation process and assesses the effects of the transformation processes which occurred during the 90´s of the 20th century. The next section observes the period in the beginning of the 21st century and further more there are elaborated the actual trends of the textile industry, the actual stage of the line, including today?s most successful textile businesses. At the end, there are suggested the possibilities of the trend. The text is supplemented by graphs, charts and cartograms, which are processed on the basis of the economic indicators.

This is a study of how trade unions act when they are confronted with the consequences of innovations in their own sector of the economy. The framework in which this is studied, basically consists of Mancur Olson's distinction between encompassing/broad and narrow interest organizations, here represented by the peak organization of the blue-collar workers (LO) and the separate trade unions within LO, respectively. Furthermore, the framework also highlights that adjustment processes do not take place at the national level. It is never national economies that faces an innovation the adjustment takes place at the sector level, and at the firm level. As economic change never has been executed by rhetoric alone, it is at the sectoral level that change has to be addressed in a practical, rather than a theoretical, fashion. Three separate studies of trade union action and economic change have been carried out, focusing on the innovations introduced after World War II that had profound impact on the sectors concerned: the Textile Workers Union and the transformation of the textile industry from an almost self-sufficient status to a high level of import penetration; the Building Workers Union and the institutional innovations in the building industry that led to an increasingly politicized market; and the Retail Workers Union and the self-service concept together with the developments associated with it in the retail sector. Pivotal to the individual trade union was its ability to define the concept of rationalization/modernization in its own fashion. This made the concept rather fluid, and thus subject to the possibility of reinterpretations, if developments turned out to be different than envisioned. `Radicalization' was the result. In the course of less than a decade, all three unions were radicalized in their language and actions, as structural change was judged uncontrollable. This coincides with the general radicalization, which in this study is synonymous with a larger influence of the narrow interests, of the Swedish trade union movement. The study thus points at some possible explanations for this. Keywords: trade unions, the textile industry, the building industry, the retail sector, encompassing and narrow interests, the politics of productivity, innovation, economic change, structural adjustment, rationalization, competition, regulation, deregulation, bargained economy, free trade, protectionism, labor market policy, public housing corporations, union controlled firms, radicalization, organization costs, opening hour regulation