Posts by Azizul Islam

This interview with Professor Aziz Islam was written by Sam Hadad for the The Times-Raconteur, you can read the original article here.

Growing up in Dhaka, Professor Muhammad Azizul Islam was surrounded by densely packed garment factories supplying far-away companies. Seeing tired workers leaving buildings late at night inspired his future…

This blog was written by Professor Aziz Islam for The International Federation of Accountants, you can read the original article here.

The global spread of Covid-19 has set the United Nations (UN) member states unprecedented challenges to meet their commitments under the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ranging from reducing…

This blog was written by Professor Aziz Islam for The Conversation, you can read the original article here.

Over the past three decades, global inequality has reached a critical level. The world’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%. Multinational fashion companies have secured billions of dollars by…

The Guardian’s recent article titled, ‘Revealed: Spice Girls T-shirts made in factory paying staff 35p an hour’, once again reminds us that modern slavery is ingrained in global supply chains. This time, it is celebrities who are the centre of controversy, despite the otherwise socially responsible claim that £11.60 raised…

For more than a decade, I have been researching whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) actually advances corporate social transparency and accountability as expected. Presently I take a deeper look at CSR.

One can observe that a few decades ago CSR was considered as a self-regulatory mechanism ensuring that corporations voluntarily…