Projekt

The April 2013 Rana Plaza building disaster in Bangladesh was a focusing event triggering major international and national policy initiatives aimed at improving labour and environmental standards in global garment production. The project analyses changes in lead firm policies and practices relating to these standards across four countries - two liberal market economies (Australia and the UK) and two co-ordinated market economies (Germany and Sweden). It complements this analysis with an examination of changes in actual labour and environmental standards in Bangladeshi factories that supply garments to these lead firms. The assessment of the local situation in Bangladesh includes factory managers' and workers perceptions of changes in standards since the Rana Plaza disaster in the context of current institutional reforms. A unique multi-level, multi-actor design should allow important policy implications to be drawn for improving supply chain governance structures and labour and environmental standards in Bangladesh and more widely.

• Prof. Dr. Elke Schüßler

  Freie Universität Berlin
  Wirtschaftswissenschaft / Betriebswirtschaftslehre
  Management
  Berlin
  

• Prof. Dr. Sarah Ashwin

  The London School of Economics
  and Political Science
  Department of Management
  London
  Grossbritannien
  

• Dr. Niklas Egels Zandén

  University of Gothenburg
  School of Business, Economics and Law
  Gothenburg
  Schweden
  

• Prof. Naila Kabeer

  The London School of Economics
  and Political Science
  Gender Institute
  London
  Grossbritannien
  

• Prof. Dr. Stephen Frenkel

  University of New South Wales
  UNSW School of Business
  Management
  Sydney
  Australien
  

• Simeen Mahmud

  BRAC University
  Institute of Governance and Development
  SK Center, GP.Ja-4, TB Gate
  Dhaka
  Bangladesch