TY - THES A1 - Saberi, Sabiha T1 - Governance of Global Value Chains in the Garment Industry: The Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord N2 - Global Value Chain (GVC) is a process where production takes places in different countries for different stages. Many of the scholars have argued that social upgrading and economic upgrading is connected as a result of Global Value Chain. This paper is built on the concept of Global Value Chain (GVC) in terms of social upgrading. There will be discussion on the fire incident of “Tazreen Fashion” and another consecutive disaster named as “Rana Plaza Tragedy” and the aftermath of International Labor Organization intervention resulted in “The Bangladesh Accord: Fire and Building safety”. GVC upgrading framework approach and the link between framework and the Accord helps to understand the governance. The Accord analyzed as GVC upgrading tool and addresses the shortcomings of inspection and transparency issues. The paper aims at explain how much the accord has been conducted using GVC upgrading framework. This paper draws a conclusion by analyzing from publicly available secondary data. This paper tries to answer the progress rate of the investigation using descriptive statistics and testing hypothese. The paper aims to shed a light on it and suggests insight after the expiration of the Accord in 2021. KW - ILO KW - RMG KW - Global value chains KW - Global product network KW - Descriptive statistics KW - Progress rate KW - Analysis KW - Effectiveness Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-18072 ER -