Transforming the Garment Industry in Bangladesh: Sharing Responsibility

Baumann-Pauly, Dorothée; Labowitz, Sarah; Stein, Nate

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74367-7_4

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“…They can also support efforts to address common safety remediation funds to the industry at reasonable interest rate (Baumann‐Pauly et. al., 2018; Russell, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…International Financial Institutions (e.g., IFC, World Bank) can support such governmental infrastructure improvements and create pressure on the GOB to do so through improved financial lending incentives. They can also support efforts to address common safety remediation funds to the industry at reasonable interest rate (Baumann-Pauly et. al., 2018;Russell, 2016).…”

Section: Government Regulation For Financing Factory Remediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Addressing Social Issues in Commodity Markets: Using Cost Modeling as an Enabler of Public Policy in the Bangladeshi Apparel Industry

Hasan

Moore

Handfield

2020

J Supply Chain Manag

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Global apparel brands that source production from less developed countries are increasingly exposed to risks that arise from human rights violations. Despite widely publicized factory safety failures, reactionary regulatory efforts remain inadequate. This situation is commonly attributed to unyielding downward price pressure imposed on factories by Western brands. To address this problem, this research develops a comprehensive cost model for low‐cost apparel production following a total cost of ownership approach. Comprehensive production data for cotton T‐shirts from nine Bangladeshi factories provide the basis for model construction. The model reveals that materials generate the bulk of production costs (77%) for a T‐shirt, in contrast to worker wages which generate only 2 percent of the total production cost per unit (e.g., 16 cents out of a $8USD retail price). The TCO provides fundamental insights, grounded in real data, to guide policy and regulation among stakeholders in high‐risk, low‐cost supply chains. Based on the research context, results are considered through the lens of agency theory to provide managerial implications for relevant stakeholders.

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“…They can also support efforts to address common safety remediation funds to the industry at reasonable interest rate (Baumann‐Pauly et. al., 2018; Russell, 2016).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Government Regulation For Financing Factory Remediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing Social Issues in Commodity Markets: Using Cost Modeling as an Enabler of Public Policy in the Bangladeshi Apparel Industry

Hasan

Moore

Handfield

2020

J Supply Chain Manag

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“…With regards to firm age, Debicki et al (2017) suggested that controlling for firm age accounts for newness of an organization, and also addresses the tendency of younger organizations for showing higher growth rates compared with the older ones. In this study the age of the RMG firms range from 3 to 45 years (Baumann‐Pauly, 2017), hence it is deemed necessary to control for firm age.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainable supply chain management practices, dynamic capabilities and competitive advantage: Evidence from Bangladesh ready‐made garments industry

2023

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The ready-made garments (RMG) production industry in Bangladesh has achieved a major presence in the global fashion apparel supply chain particularly due to the competitive advantage (CA) primarily attributed to its' large pool of low cost labor. However, the competitiveness of this industry is under threat from other emerging economies that are rapidly becoming lower cost production sources. As a result the Bangladesh RMG sector is under pressure to find alternate sources of CA by introducing sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices along with improving the dynamic capabilities (DC) of the RMG manufacturers. However, the extant literature indicates that there is a dearth of sufficient empirical evidence on whether SSCM practices in combination with improvements in management and technological capabilities of such enterprises leads to gains in CA. In order to address the aforesaid gap, this study draws on the integration of the SSCM practices view and the DC view, to propose a set of relationships that posit that environmental, social, and economic sustainability measures of SSCM practices along with management and technological capabilities will have a significant influence on CA. The hypotheses are tested by applying structural equation modeling on a sample of 345 export-oriented RMG manufacturers in Bangladesh. The findings indicate that influence of social sustainability, along with management and technological capabilities, on CA is positive and significant. While the relationship between environmental and economic sustainability and CA were not significant.

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“…Furthermore, the fact that the family firms selected for this survey are all in the same industry eliminates the effect of industry type on the outcome. The names of the companies were available on the website (www.bgmea.com.bd) of Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) (Baumann-Pauly, 2017). A sampling frame was available from the above website of 4,365 registered RMG manufacturers.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Emotions, identity, social bonds and commitment to the family business: moderating role of controlling generation

Razzak

2022

JEEE

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Purpose Drawing on the stakeholder theory, the purpose of this study is to examine relationships between family identity, emotional attachment and binding social ties, and commitment of family firm owners to the family enterprise in the context of an emerging economy. Furthermore, this study examines whether the strength of the above relationships significantly vary between the founder generation and the subsequent generation of owners. Design/methodology/approach A set of hypotheses is tested by applying partial least squares structural equation modeling on a sample of 357 family-owned manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. Deploying SmartPLS (v. 3.2), the path model is analyzed through bootstrapping procedure. The moderating effect is tested through multigroup analysis. Findings The findings suggest that the relationships between emotional attachment and family identity and commitment are positive and significant, whereas the association between binding social ties and commitment was not significant. Furthermore, a multigroup analysis revealed that there is a significant difference between the founder generation and their next generation in terms of influence of binding social ties and family identity on commitment, whereas there appears to be no difference in terms of emotional attachment and commitment between the two generations. Practical implications This study shows that compared to the founder generation, the next generation prioritizes family identity and social bonds, which leads to greater levels of collective commitment to the organization. Such knowledge may provide clues to incumbent family-firm leaders by identifying the areas where they need to emphasize in generating greater levels of commitment among their successors. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this appears to be the first such study that provides a nuanced understanding of how family generation in control of the family firm influences the relationships between psychosocial components of socioemotional wealth and collective commitment of the owners of family firms in the context of an emerging economy.

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Transforming the Garment Industry in Bangladesh: Sharing Responsibility

Cited by 10 publications

References 1 publication

Addressing Social Issues in Commodity Markets: Using Cost Modeling as an Enabler of Public Policy in the Bangladeshi Apparel Industry

Addressing Social Issues in Commodity Markets: Using Cost Modeling as an Enabler of Public Policy in the Bangladeshi Apparel Industry

Sustainable supply chain management practices, dynamic capabilities and competitive advantage: Evidence from Bangladesh ready‐made garments industry

Emotions, identity, social bonds and commitment to the family business: moderating role of controlling generation

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