Fashion firms have transferred their manufacturing processes to Asia, seeking minimum labor costs, supported by the academic literature’s proposals for alternative supply chain configurations to maximize profits. Fashion industry has undergone public analysis, facing demands for greater transparency about environmental and social sustainability. The growing public awareness of sustainability issues has led firms to declare their commitment to sustainable resources, but few changes have been registered. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe listed technological innovation as a key tool for making the fashion industry transparent and traceable regarding sustainability and circularity. The research and responsible innovation framework indicate appropriate ways to manage innovation from a responsible and ethical perspective, according to ethical corporate behaviour (ECB), particularly in the industries characterized by productive phases processed in more countries, such as the fashion industry. However, the linkages between responsible innovation, ECB towards innovative and sustainable business models, and their conceptualization, are still unclear in the fashion industry, achieving the goals included in the UN 2030 Agenda. This study draws on bibliometric analysis and systematic review of the literature on 114 articles published between 1990 and 2021 allows to identify the above issues in the research domains, and outline the evolutionary trajectories, as well as to explore the literary corpus about responsible innovation (RI) in the ethical corporate behaviour (ECB) of the fashion industry and its Asian suppliers. The results highlight that fashion brands strive to develop RI and ECB along their supply chain. Still, the misalignment of corporate ethics and cultural values represents a significant obstacle to the adoption of business models, especially to achieve the goals of UN 2030 Agenda. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that discusses RI as enabling driver in the ECB for fashion companies also defining a future research agenda including RI, ECB, iSBMs towards SDGs.

时装公司已将其制造流程转移到亚洲，以寻求最低的劳动力成本，这得到了学术文献关于替代供应链配置以实现利润最大化的建议的支持。时装业已经过公众分析，面临着对环境和社会可持续性更高透明度的要求。公众对可持续性问题的认识不断提高，促使公司宣布他们对可持续资源的承诺，但几乎没有变化。联合国欧洲经济委员会将技术创新列为使时装业在可持续性和循环性方面透明和可追溯的关键工具。研究和负责任的创新框架表明了从负责任和道德的角度管理创新的适当方法，根据道德企业行为 (ECB)，特别是在以生产阶段为特征的行业中，在更多国家进行加工，例如时装业。然而，负责任的创新、欧洲央行对创新和可持续商业模式及其概念化之间的联系在时尚行业仍不清楚，无法实现联合国 2030 年议程中包含的目标。本研究利用文献计量分析和对 1990 年至 2021 年间发表的 114 篇文章的文献进行系统回顾，可以识别研究领域中的上述问题，勾勒出进化轨迹，以及探索关于负责任创新的文学语料库（RI ) 在时尚行业及其亚洲供应商的道德企业行为 (ECB) 中。结果表明，时尚品牌努力在其供应链中发展 RI 和 ECB。尽管如此，企业道德和文化价值观的错位仍然是采用商业模式的重大障碍，尤其是实现联合国 2030 年议程的目标。据我们所知，这是第一项将 RI 讨论为时尚公司在 ECB 中的推动力的研究，还定义了未来的研究议程，包括 RI、ECB、iSBM 以实现可持续发展目标。