Abstract
On the 24th of April 2013 at 08:45 in the morning in Dhaka District, Bangladesh,an eight-floor commercial building, known as Rana Plaza, collapsed due to astructural failure. The building contained apartments, banks and clothing factories,which produced ready-made garments (RMG)1for major Western clothing brands(BBC 2013). With 1134 deaths and 2500 injuries, the Rana Plaza incident was classifiedas the deadliest structural failure accident in modern human history (Chowdhury2017). The tragic accident received global attention, raising awareness of CorporateSocial Responsibility (CSR) across global value chains (GVCs).
Ferrini, Lia