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Corporate Environmental responsibility: What chance in vulnerable Bangladesh?

Research paper review for workshop.

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Corporate Environmental responsibility: What chance in vulnerable Bangladesh?

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  1. Corporate environmental responsibility and accountability: What chance in vulnerable Bangladesh? AtaurRahmanBelal,StuartM.Cooper, Niaz Ahmed khan

  2. Introduction: • Globalization is highly contested concept(Guillen,2001),which relates to the “increasingly deep interrelationship among countries, companies & individuals”(Eisenhardt,2002,p.88). • Gallhofer,Haslam,&kamla(2011,p.378) suggest that whilst “ globalization threatens to silence local voices,” accounting has the potential to illuminate injustices and to ‘give a voice to local people.’

  3. Empirical setting &Research Method: • The empirical setting for their research, which explores the potential of corporate responsibilities & accountabilities to redress the adverse impacts of environmental pollution & degradation, in Bangladesh. Given the objective of this paper, they have adopted a qualitative research method.

  4. Table 1Summary of interviewees • Codes of interviewees • Category of interviewees • Number of interviews • NGO1-NGO4 • Non-governmental org. • 4 • IA1-IA4 • International agencies • 4 • TPB1-TPB5 • Trade/professional bodies • 5 • G1-G2 • Governmental agencies • 2 • MP1-MP4 • Members of parliament • 4 • C1-C13 • Corporate Manegers • 13 • TOTAL • 32

  5. Discussion: • The discussion have typically centered around two broad issues: • Firstly , The contribution of some corporation , especially industrial and manufacturing units to environmental degradation and the debate about corporate environmental accountability and responsibility. • Secondly, suggested corporate role in facing the challenge of environmental degradation in the forms of support to communities toward poverty reduction & social protection.

  6. Conclusion & policy recommendation: • The evidence presented in this paper reveals that significant environmental cost have been incurred in terms of air and water pollution, public health hazards, alarming low ground water level and by vulnerable community members losing their livelihood. • Drawing from Rubenstein(2007) this paper suggested “Surrogate accountability” of business to the vulnerable stake holders via third party such as NGOs as a possible way forward.

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