Embedding employee engagement in SSCM: Evidence from the Bangladeshi garment industry

Julie, Sharmin 2023. Embedding employee engagement in SSCM: Evidence from the Bangladeshi garment industry. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

This thesis aims to identify the contribution stakeholder forces make in implementing SSCM within the Bangladeshi garment industry, where the early stages of the research focused on all stakeholders before focusing on employees’ engagement in later research. Due to the garment industry's heightened sensitivity toward environmental protection and social responsibility, SSCM has become an essential theme. Recent years have seen significant research interest in the implications of SSCM. However little research has offered insight into the actual implementation process of sustainable forces in factories’ shop floor activities. This research addresses both qualitative and quantitative knowledge gaps around the divergence of the logic of stakeholder groups, the capability of internal stakeholders, the institutional mechanisms, and the significance of contextual factors in the acceptance of sustainability practices within the factory limits. The research was carried out with manufacturing-based Bangladeshi garment industry stakeholder groups between 2019 and 2022. A parallel convergent mixed method approach was adopted to contribute academic knowledge and address the managerial concerns of sustainable performance of the garment industry. The crossmatching interpretation between findings highlighted numerous sustainable forces from the manufacturing point of view and categorized them as internal and external forces in conjunction with supporting, hindering and conflicting aspects of SSCM performances. Furthermore, several qualitative themes and quantitative constructs were identified as institutional mechanisms which could promote the garment shop floor’s sustainable practices and the implementation of SSCM performances. Through moderated mediation analysis of a survey with 167 responses, this thesis highlighted how employee engagement could mediate the relationship between stakeholder decisions and firm performance. Keywords: sustainable supply chain management, manufacturing-based stakeholders groups, sustainable practices, sustainable performance, Bangladeshi garment industry, stakeholder decisions, employee engagement, firm performance, stakeholder theory, institutional theory.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Employee engagement, Sustainability, Sustainable supply chain management, Emerging economy, Garment industry, Stakeholder theory, Institutional theory, Mixed methods, Thematic analysis, Mediation analysis
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 February 2024
Last Modified:	08 Feb 2024 10:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166172

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