The previous chapter documents the social compliance reporting of a major supply body in Bangladesh, the BGMEA. However, while organisations use social compliance reporting to maintain their legitimacy, it is a challenge to understand whether such reporting reflects the actual performance of the...

With the global shift of production locations to developing nations, retail MNCs have started to express concern and address social performance in supply chains. For example, within the Bangladeshi clothing industry, from the early 1990s, the export-oriented clothing supply companies were blamed...