Multistakeholder Committee for Sustainable Innovation: Creating an Ethical Code in the Jewelry Business. The Experience of the Italian Ethics Committee of Color Gemstones (Assogemme)

Collaboration, contamination, and wide participation are the common
denominators of innovation and sustainability. is work aims at
studying engagement as the basis for innovative projects that respond
to an objective of social and environmental sustainability, and describes
the multistakeholder committee as the ideal container for realizing the
engagement.
collaborative sustainability is defined as an effective and credible
action for the creation and dissemination of sustainability of the supply
chain. is chapter explores the experience of the Ethics Committee of
Color Gemstones, by Assogemme, in Italy, analyzing its planning andoperation activities. It is set up with the aim to produce a sustainable innovation
process, aimed at the creation of “new” standards for traceability
of jewelry products made with color gemstones, and at the definition of
an ethical code for the companies of this business.