Compliance Codes and Women Workers’ (Mis)representation and (Non)recognition in the Apparel Industry of Bangladesh

Alamgir, Fahreen; Alakavuklar, Ozan Nadir

doi:10.1007/s10551-018-4080-2

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“…Exploitation is also often rife through global supply chains in which workers in the South are often mobilized into poorly paid, dangerous extractive and factory work (e.g., Hamann & Bartels, 2018;Munir et al, 2018). As Alamgir and Alakavuklar (2018) have shown in the case of the Bangladeshi garment manufacturing industry, monitoring worker abuse is difficult when multinationals engage with networks of subcontractors. It is only when accidents happen, as when the Rana Plaza building located in Dhaka collapsed in 2013 killing over 1,100 people, that multinational firms are questioned.…”

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The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

Amis

Mair

Munir

2020

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With societal inequalities continuing to increase and organizations providing the vast majority of people with their income, we wanted to assess the ways in which organizational practices are implicated in the burgeoning of social and economic inequality. Following an integrative review of the literature drawn from across the social sciences, we found that the multiple ways in which five major organizational practices-hiring, role allocation, promotion, compensation and structuring-are enacted emerged as being central to the reproduction of inequality. We also uncovered how the persistence of these practices, and the inequality they induce, can be largely attributed to a constellation of three highly institutionalized myths, efficiency, meritocracy and positive globalization. Our analysis further reveals how, as scholars, we bear a corresponding responsibility to reconsider how we engage in research on and teaching about organizations. The implications of this for our future work are discussed.

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Section: Compensationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

Amis

Mair

Munir

2020

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“…Some of the NGOs see themselves as being able to pressure Accord firms through other forums and coalitions where the NGOs are also members (Lisa) but this does not extend to critique of the Accord itself. Instead critical civil society voices have come more from local unions and local labour activists in Bangladesh (Alamgir and Banerjee 2019;Chowdhury 2017), who have expressed concern in relation to: (1) the Accord's lack of long-term capacity building for local (under-resourced) unions, as the safety-focused Accord is felt to take away energy from local organizing and union struggles over wages (Chandni); (2) the bypassing of democratic institutions and questions of dependence and sovereignty (Akter 2017); (3) the dominance of elite Western NGOs and unions; (4) the (non) representation of local Bangladeshi unions; and (5) the silencing of women workers in the multi-stakeholder initiative (Alamgir and Alakavuklar 2018). Local actors and actors most focused on Bangladeshi rights are the ones who seem most concerned with the democracy deficit in these arrangements, whereas the elite Western civil society organizations and global unions show less concern in how they contribute to legitimizing non-state governance systems.…”

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Dissent in Consensusland: An Agonistic Problematization of Multi-stakeholder Governance

Fougère

Solitander

2019

J Bus Ethics

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Multi-stakeholder initiatives involve actors from several spheres of society (market, civil society and state) in collaborative arrangements to reach objectives typically related to sustainable development. In political CSR literature, these arrangements have been framed as improvements to transnational governance and as being somehow democratic. We draw on Mouffe's works on agonistic pluralism to problematize the notion that consensus-led multi-stakeholder initiatives bring more democratic control on corporate power. We examine two initiatives which address two very different issue areas: the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety (The Accord). We map the different kinds of adversarial relations involved in connection with the issues meant to be governed by the two initiatives, and find those adversarial relations to take six main shapes, affecting the initiatives in different ways: (1) competing regulatory initiatives;(2) pressure-response relations within multi-stakeholder initiatives; (3) pressure-response relations between NGOs and states through multi-stakeholder initiatives; (4) collaboration and competition between multi-stakeholder initiatives and states; (5) pressure-response relations between civil society actors and multi-stakeholder initiatives; and (6) counter-hegemonic movements against multi-stakeholder initiatives as hegemonic projects. We conclude that multi-stakeholder initiatives cannot be democratic by themselves, and we argue that business and society researchers should not look at democracy or politics only internally to these initiatives, but rather study how issue areas are regulated through interactions between a variety of actors-both within and without the multi-stakeholder initiatives-who get to have a legitimate voice in this regulation.

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“…Another interesting issue related to corporate sustainability in South Asia is that environmental sustainability is more often mentioned by the banks in the sample than social sustainability. However, topics such as inclusion and equality are a top priority in many South Asian countries [4,91]. The latter includes stakeholder engagement, community building, social inclusion, and so on.…”

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Corporate Sustainability in Bangladeshi Banks: Proactive or Reactive Ethical Behavior?

Weber

Chowdury

2020

Sustainability

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the connection between the sustainability performance and financial performance of Bangladeshi banks to explore the impact of the Bangladesh Environmental Risk Management Guideline. We analyzed all 56 scheduled commercial banks that are currently operating in Bangladesh under the guidelines of the Central Bank of Bangladesh. Data for the sample has been collected from publicly available reports such as annual, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, disclosed sustainability and financial information on the banks’ websites, including all bank branches, and data published from the Central Bank. Data has been analyzed using panel regression. Our results indicate that higher sustainability performance creates a higher financial performance, and that bigger banks perform better with regard to sustainability than smaller banks. The analysis did not find, however, that higher financial performance influences the sustainability performance of the banks positively. Consequently, this research contributes to the research on legitimacy-driven behavior of Bangladeshi banks. This behavior rather leads to a reactive adoption of sustainability activities instead of proactive behavior.

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Compliance Codes and Women Workers’ (Mis)representation and (Non)recognition in the Apparel Industry of Bangladesh

Cited by 43 publications

References 24 publications

The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

Dissent in Consensusland: An Agonistic Problematization of Multi-stakeholder Governance

Corporate Sustainability in Bangladeshi Banks: Proactive or Reactive Ethical Behavior?

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