TY - JFULL AU - Zhao Linfei and Gu Qingliang PY - 2009/4/ TI - Corporate Social Responsibility in China Apparel Industry T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 217 EP - 222 VL - 3 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11890 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 27, 2009 N2 - China apparel industry, which is deeply embedded in the global production network (GPN), faces the dual pressures of social upgrading and economic upgrading. Based on the survey in Ningbo apparel cluster, the paper shows the state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in China apparel industry is better than before. And the investigation indicates that the firms who practice CSR actively perform better both socially and economically than those who inactively. The research demonstrates that CSR can be an initial capital rather than cost, and “doing well by doing good" is also existed in labor intensive industry. ER -