Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the intended and unintended consequences of compliance and auditing pressures in the Bangladeshi garment industry. To explore this issue the authors draw on three medium-sized suppliers. The institutional changes that followed the Rana...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper includes two interconnected objectives. The first is to provide a reconceptualisation of social value creation as social constraint alleviation. The second is to respond to the call put forward by Giuliani and Macchi (2014) to produce synergies between...

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the potential contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and derive implications for policy makers based on the insights. Our findings indicate that despite their comparatively smaller size,...