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Stakeholders
In the context of a report addressing environmental sustainability challenges in the fashion
industry, such as H&M, there are various internal and external stakeholders, each with distinct interests and connections to the project.
INTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER
Employees Customers
Legal and Compliance Teams Competitors
Marketing and PR Departments Investors and Shareholders
Supply Chain and Procurement Teams NGOs and Activist Groups
Company Leadership and Management Regulatory Bodies and Governments
Addressing environmental sustainability challenges in H&M, has a wide-ranging impact on
various internal and external stakeholders. Successful sustainability initiatives can enhance the company's reputation, competitiveness, and relationships with customers, investors, competitors, activist groups and regulatory bodies, while also affecting employees and marketing teams, suppliers and overall management and leadership of the company.
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Hig Legal and Compliance Team: These teams play Employees: Employees have a high level of power h a crucial role in ensuring H&M’s compliance with because they are essential to the daily operations of environmental regulations. While they have high H&M. They are also highly interested in the power in enforcing compliance, their primary company’s sustainability efforts as it can impact their focus is on regulatory adherence rather than the work environment and job security. sustainability initiatives. Customers: Customers wield considerable poser Investors and shareholders: while influential due because their purchasing decisions directly affect to their financial stake, their primary focus is on H&M's revenue. They are also highly interested in financial returns, and their interest in H&M’s sustainability as it influences their buying choices. the environmental sustainability efforts may vary and customer of fashion-industry has high power and high be relatively low compared to their financial interest in the sustainability practices (Javed et al., concerns. 2021).
Regulatory Bodies and Governments: The wield
significant regulatory powers but their direct Leadership and Management: Company leaders and engagement and interest in H&M's sustainability management hold significant power in shaping efforts may be relatively low, influenced by H&M’s strategy and resource allocation. They are government policies and broader regulatory highly interested sustainability as it affects the priorities. company's overall performance and long-term viability (Zaichenko, 2023) Power Keep Satisfied Key Players Supply Chain and Procurement Teams: These NGOs an activist Groups: While they may not have teams typically have limited power to influence direct influence over H&M’s operations, these groups overarching sustainability strategies or decisions are highly interested in the company's sustainability within H&M. While they play a role in sourcing practices. They often advocate for change through materials and managing the supply chain, their public awareness campaigns and activism. NGOs primary focus may not be on sustainability particularly have high power to influence the initiatives Their level of interest and influence in businesses (Steven et al., 2020) sustainability matters can vary across team members and may be lower compared to other Competitors: Competitors in the fashion industry are stakeholders. there are 605 suppliers of H&M highly interested in H&M's sustainability efforts as around the globe (H&M, 2022), indicating that they impact the overall market dynamics and H&M have sustantial supplier base and thus, they expectations. While competitors may not have direct may have lower power influence over H&M's operations, they closely monitor sustainability trends and may aim to Marketing and PR Departments: While they respond to consumer demands for eco-friendly have come influence over how sustainability is practices and products. communicated to the public, they do not have significant decision-making regarding sustainability initiatives. Low Low Interest High Figure 1:Stakeholder Analysis; The Power Interest Grid