期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2018
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：121-146
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：The aim of this research is to assess the level of sustainable development by using a simple and handy assessment tool of the ready-made garments (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. A 30-item sustainability index developed earlier by this author and a modified version of a sustainability tool named Barometer of Sustainability are used to assess the level of sustainability. Data were gathered from the Tier 1 RMG factories in Bangladesh. Excluding incomplete responses, a total of 238 responses were considered for further analysis. The result revealed that overall sustainability level of the factories participate in this study is at “acceptable” level. Classifying the factories based on their product types does not show much difference than the overall sustainability measure. But while factories are segregated based on their sizes in terms of number of employees, the result shows a clear inverse relationship between sustainability level and RMG factory sizes. Making a sustainable business strategy and practicing that is urgent at this point for the factories of RMG industry. The result of this study could be used as evidence for further improvement and to compare the situation in other related industries.
