Governing Corporate Social Responsibility in the Apparel Industry after Rana Plaza

Andy Hira is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is an expert on economic competitiveness, with an emphasis on the challenges for developing countries. He is the author of What Makes Clusters Competitive? Cases from the Global Wine Industry and Mapping Out the Triple Helix: How institutional coordination is achieved in the global wine industry.  Maureen Benson-Rea is Senior Lecturer Associate Professor of Management and International Business at the University of Auckland Business School, NZ. She has published extensively in the areas of international business, strategy, and marketing in such publications as Multinational Business Review and Journal of Business Research. She has also published on South Asian suppliers in the Global Apparel Value Chain, and is currently leading research projects on multinational decision-making and anti-consumption.

• 1) Introduction.- 2) Threads of Despair.- 3) The Legacy of Rana Plaza.- 4) A Governance Deficit In The Apparel Industry In Bangladesh.- 5)Anti-Consumption And Governance In The Global Fashion Industry.