Supply Chains Digitalisation in Bangladesh: Ongoing geopolitical tensions, trade disputes between major economies, climate change-related disruptions, and rapid changes in consumer preferences collectively pose a complex set of issues for the global supply chain, impacting operational efficiency, financial performance, and the ability to adapt to changing market conditions.
Academic insights reached millions
The story that garnered the most interest from our audience in April was this piece on why new COVID variants necessitate a global ‘maximum suppression’ strategy. It has been read more than 1.1 million times!
It was also republished by more than 28 other media outlets around the world -
including The Guardian, ABC and the South China Morning Post. 84% of its readers were from countries outside Australia.
The second most-read piece was Ritesh Chugh from CQUniversity’s piece on how to deal with water damage to your phone, which received more than 570,000 reads. Ritesh said:
“As an academic, such a wide readership provides great testimony of our public scholarship”
Remember Bangladesh garment factory collapse? Compliance is still a charade 8 yrs later
The Rana Plaza collapse, which killed more than 1,100 garment workers, briefly shone a spotlight on the underbelly of the global fashion business. Text Size:
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The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring 2,600 more, is the clothing industry’s worst ever industrial incident.
It is not just the body count, though, that made the collapse of the Rana Plaza, a nine-story building in the Bangladeshi industrial city of Savar (near Dhaka), capture global attention (briefly) and spur activism around the world to improve the treatment of garment workers.