Fashion and Work Organizational Ecosystem. Prospects and Post-COVID-19 Scenarios

Design is the basis of organizations’ innovation and sustainability process and an indispensable re-source for meeting short-term sustainability goals and transforming the long-term economic model. However, it is known that the current configuration of the organizational work ecosystem in the Fash-ion sector has been marked by a panorama of sanitary, social and economic instability. That said, the objective of this paper is to map the organizational ecosystem of work in the Fashion sector from a systemic perspective between the individual, organization, work environment, products, tasks, and tools in a post-COVID-19 scenario and of profound technological changes. Thus, it is essential to re-think corporate culture and organizational ecosystems through new models of collaboration and inno-vation between partners. The relevance of this study for the Design area is in determining strategies for stakeholders in the present, from the projection of future work scenarios in Italian fashion companies, as vectors of development and a balance factor in the relationships between people, objects, and the environment. The research approach was systemic-constructivist, and the methodological design included Grounded Theory and Triangulation.