Unethical Manufacturing Practices in Clothing Industry

Contemporary
Strategic
Management

Change in regulations
 The case study highlights the requirement of change
in regulations to avoid unethical manufacturing
procedures.
 Clothing manufacturing corporations in the United
States are facing pressure on an international level
to avoid outsourcing their process to developing
nations (Ma, Lee & Goerlitz, 2016).
 They have evaluate factors such as employment
laws, exploitation, sweatshop production and unsafe
working conditions.
 Mandatory disclosures and transparency in
operations have imposed an obligations on major
corporations in the US (Islam, Haque, Dissanayake,
Leung & Handley, 2015).

Customer Perspective
 The perspective of customers have changed
towards expensive clothes which are produced
unethically in the US.
 73 percent millennial prefer to pay extra for
sustainable products (Curtin, 2018).
 It has become socially unacceptable to wear
clothes which are manufactured through
unethical mediums.
 The case study highlight that although some
benefits are received by workers, however,
these unethical practices are detrimental in the
long run (Ukoha, 2013).