Corporate Social Responsibility–Oriented Compliances and SMEs Access to Global Market: Evidence from Bangladesh
@article{Rahim2013CorporateSR, title={Corporate Social Responsibility–Oriented Compliances and SMEs Access to Global Market: Evidence from Bangladesh}, author={Mia Mahmudur Rahim and Pornchai Wisuttisak}, journal={Journal of Asia-Pacific Business}, year={2013}, volume={14}, pages={58 - 83} }
The convergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance has immense impact on the participants in global supply chains. The global buyers and retailers tend to incorporate CSR in all stages of product manufacturing within their supply chains. The incorporated CSR thus creates the difficulty to small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs). Incompetence in standardized CSR practices is an important issue that causes SMEs either losing their scope to access…
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