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Connecting labour standard compliance to factory survival in a globalized value chain

Brettfeld, Clara LU (2021) EKHS22 20211
Department of Economic History
Abstract
The fear of a loss in competitive advantage due to increasing costs and prices is an argument often brought up against compliance to human rights and labour standards. On this basis, the present thesis is researching the association between compliance to labour standards and factory survival in the Cambodian garment sector. The latter is an important driver of industrialization in the country. At the same time Cambodia has a unique legal framework which requires regular auditing of labour standards by the International Labour Organization’s Better Work programme for all garment exporting factories. The analysis applies a Cox Proportional Hazard Model on the monitoring data in a time frame between 2006 and 2015. Findings across seven... (More)
The fear of a loss in competitive advantage due to increasing costs and prices is an argument often brought up against compliance to human rights and labour standards. On this basis, the present thesis is researching the association between compliance to labour standards and factory survival in the Cambodian garment sector. The latter is an important driver of industrialization in the country. At the same time Cambodia has a unique legal framework which requires regular auditing of labour standards by the International Labour Organization’s Better Work programme for all garment exporting factories. The analysis applies a Cox Proportional Hazard Model on the monitoring data in a time frame between 2006 and 2015. Findings across seven categories of labour standards suggest no systematic relationship between an increasing probability of factory closure and compliance, except for compliance to standards of Compensation and Modern Human Resource Management. (Less)
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author
Brettfeld, Clara LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
The case of the Cambodian garment sector
course
EKHS22 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Labour Standards, Factory Survival, Social Sustainability, Better Work, Cambodia
language
English
id
9056396
date added to LUP
2021-06-24 13:16:00
date last changed
2021-06-24 13:16:00
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  abstract     = {{The fear of a loss in competitive advantage due to increasing costs and prices is an argument often brought up against compliance to human rights and labour standards. On this basis, the present thesis is researching the association between compliance to labour standards and factory survival in the Cambodian garment sector. The latter is an important driver of industrialization in the country. At the same time Cambodia has a unique legal framework which requires regular auditing of labour standards by the International Labour Organization’s Better Work programme for all garment exporting factories. The analysis applies a Cox Proportional Hazard Model on the monitoring data in a time frame between 2006 and 2015. Findings across seven categories of labour standards suggest no systematic relationship between an increasing probability of factory closure and compliance, except for compliance to standards of Compensation and Modern Human Resource Management.}},
  author       = {{Brettfeld, Clara}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Connecting labour standard compliance to factory survival in a globalized value chain}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}