Paper short abstract:

This study investigates the political notion of corporate consciousness in health and occupational safety issues, and takes the Bangladesh Readymade Garments industry as its context to shade light on political CSR approaches of social connectedness.  

Paper long abstract:

Political Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) defines corporations as political actors when they engage in new form of governance by engaging in social interaction and cooperation in the multi-stakeholder initiatives through applying self-regulation, in order to respond to social challenges such as human rights violation. Very little research has been conducted on 'Political CSR' in the developing country (host country) context where the corporations do operate their production activities. This study takes the Bangladesh RMG sector after 'Rana plaza' incident as the context to shed light on political CSR and initiates to investigate the political notion of corporate consciousness in health and occupational safety issues. This research is an 'explorative research' as formulated to perceive 'how' the current phenomenon of 'interaction' of corporations with different actors when they involve in political CSR in the context of Bangladeshi RMG industry. This study intends to amplify the current discourse on political CSR approaches of social connectedness. Moreover, in order to attain a deeper knowledge in solving ethical problems, this research initiates organizational level understanding of the political notion of corporate consciousness.

Key words: Political CSR, Social connectedness, Bangladesh RMG sector.