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, Mark Stevenson, Marta Zorzini, Linda C. Hendry
Social sustainability has become an issue of paramount importance to Western firms who source globally, but there is a dearth of empirical and theoretical research in this field. Most prior studies have been in the context of developed country buying firms. This study attempts to fill this gap by lo...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Mark Stevenson, Marta Zorzini
Most social sustainability studies are from the developed country buying firm perspective and lack theoretical underpinning. We examine the implementation of social sustainability in the apparel industry of Bangladesh using institutional theory, investigating how institutional pressures exerted by a...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Mark Stevenson, Marta Zorzini