Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett, Julio A. Berdegué
Supermarkets are traditionally viewed by development economists, policymakers, and practitioners as the rich world's place to shop. The three regions discussed here have a great majority of the poor on the planet. But supermarkets are no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital ci...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Mark Stevenson, Marta Zorzini
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate why developing country suppliers are adopting socially sustainable practices and how the implementation process is both impeded and enabled. Design/methodology/approach – A multi-case study approach is adopted based on four ready made garment (RM...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Ilma Nur Chowdhury, Robert D. Klassen
Abstract For sustainability, research in operations and supply chain management historically emphasized the development of environmental rather than social capabilities. However, factory disasters in Bangladesh, an emerging market and the second largest clothing exporter in the world, revealed enorm...
Gary Gereffi, Stacey Frederick
This paper examines the impact of two crises on the global apparel value chain: the World Trade Organization phase-out of the quota system for textiles and apparel in 2005, which provided access for many poor and small export-oriented economies to the markets of industrialized countries, and the cur...
Mark Anner
Workers’ rights violations have been pervasive in many global supply chains. In the apparel sector, production workers often face precarious working conditions, including persistently low pay, excessive and often forced overtime, unsafe buildings, and repression of their right to form unions and bar...
Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke
Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Industrial Democracy are two paradigmatic approaches to transnational labour governance. They differ considerably with regard to the role accorded to the representation of labour. CSR tends to view workers as passive recipients of corporate‐led init...
Nicky Gregson, Mike Crang, Farid Uddin Ahamed, Nazneen Akhter et al.
Naila Kabeer
This paper challenges the idea that a “social clause” to enforce global labor standards through international trade agreements serves the interests of women export workers in poor countries. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh and empirical studies, the author argues that exploitative as these jobs a...
Juliane Reinecke, Jimmy Donaghey
Global labour governance has typically been approached from either industrial relations scholars focusing on the role of organised labour or social movement scholars focusing on the role of social movement organisations in mobilising consumption power. Yet, little work has focused on the interaction...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Mark Stevenson
The implementation of socially sustainable practices in suppliers situated in challenging institutional contexts is examined using institutional theory, both in terms of how institutional pressures affect implementation and what explains the decoupling of practices from the day-to-day reality. A mul...
Fahreen Alamgir, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
This article reports the findings of a field study on the emergence of collective agreements led by global brands enacting compliance measures to improve safety and working conditions in the Bangladesh garment industry. We explore how key actors in the Bangladesh garment sector who constitute the lo...
Noemi Sinkovics, Samia Ferdous Hoque, Rudolf R. Sinkovics
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the intended and unintended consequences of compliance and auditing pressures in the Bangladeshi garment industry. To explore this issue the authors draw on three medium-sized suppliers. The institutional changes that followed the Rana Plaza acci...
Mark Anner
This article seeks to examine two inter-related dynamics, the relationship between the international dispersion of apparel production and labor control regimes, and the relationship between labor control regimes and patterns of worker resistance. The article argues that where apparel production has ...
Ricardo Hernández, Ben Belton, Thomas Reardon, Chaoran Hu et al.
The study has produced a single, powerful finding: the fish value chain in Bangladesh is growing and transforming very rapidly, in all segments. (1) The quiet revolution in the fish value chain is a domestic market revolution: 94% of aquaculture production is destined for domestic consumption. (2) T...
Thomas W. Hertel, L. Alan Winters
This study reports on the findings from \n a major international research project investigating the \n poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda \n (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several \n strands of research. First, it draws on an intensive \n a...