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The end of the MFA and apparel exports: has good CSR allowed Cambodia to hold steady against China in a quota free environment?

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  • Stephen Frost
  • Mary Ho

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In the lead up the end of the Multi‐Fiber Arrangement (MFA), commentators routinely argued that Chinese apparel exports would surge in a quota‐free environment. It was also expected that Southeast Asian apparel exporting nations would suffer declines, leading to job and economic losses. Of particular concern was Cambodia, a country that relies almost exclusively on apparel exports for foreign earnings. By mid‐2005, as trade data started to filter in, the doomsday scenario for countries like Cambodia seemed less clear cut. Although China's apparel exports had indeed soured, a surprising outcome was that exports to the US from Cambodia (and several other neighbours such as Indonesia and Vietnam) had also increased. This article focuses specifically on Cambodia (which of all the Southeast Asian countries surveyed has shown the greatest growth in apparel exports) and examines some of the CSR initiatives that help explain why gloomy prognostications have not yet become true. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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  • Stephen Frost & Mary Ho, 2006. "The end of the MFA and apparel exports: has good CSR allowed Cambodia to hold steady against China in a quota free environment?," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 13(1), pages 37-46, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:corsem:v:13:y:2006:i:1:p:37-46
    DOI: 10.1002/csr.111
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    1. Lee, Jihyun & Lee, Yuri, 2015. "The interactions of CSR, self-congruity and purchase intention among Chinese consumers," Australasian marketing journal, Elsevier, vol. 23(1), pages 19-26.
    2. Monowar Mahmood & Janet Humphrey, 2013. "Stakeholder Expectation of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: A Study on Local and Multinational Corporations in Kazakhstan," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 20(3), pages 168-181, May.
    3. Arora, Punit & De, Prabal, 2020. "Environmental sustainability practices and exports: The interplay of strategy and institutions in Latin America," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 55(4).
    4. Lydia Illge & Lutz Preuss, 2012. "Strategies for Sustainable Cotton: Comparing Niche with Mainstream Markets," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(2), pages 102-113, March.
    5. Peter Dobers & Minna Halme, 2009. "Corporate social responsibility and developing countries," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(5), pages 237-249, September.

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