Identifying stakeholder forces for managing sustainable supply chain management: Evidence from the Bangladeshi garment industry

The relationship between companies and stakeholders is crucial due to collaboration and shared economic goal issues. For the garment industry, fragmented stakeholders such as owners, management, legislative bodies, and customers are more concerned than ever about the implementation of sustainability practices. This is leading companies to introduce different types of collaboration practices into their supply chain contracts, like- internal and external knowledge sharing, mutual understanding, and strategic collaboration, with the aim of enhancing their sustainability performances. While the extant literature on supply chains acknowledges this trend, more insights on the concept of ‘stakeholder collaboration’ are needed, including and its consequences in the garments industry. The purpose of this paper is to investigate this concept and explore how such requirements may improve sustainability performance in the Bangladeshi garment industry.