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- Title
Hazardous Waste Management and Corporate Social Responsibility: Illegal Trade of Electrical and Electronic Waste.
- Authors
BOUDIER, FABIENNE; BENSEBAA, FAOUZI
- Abstract
Taking electrical and electronic waste as its field of observation, this study investigates the illegal trade in hazardous waste from developed countries toward developing countries. Despite increased legislation, the problem of waste in developed countries, far from being treated upstream, is largely shifted downstream by exporting it to developing countries. The two interpretations we offer, economic and institutional, enable us to show how cost constraints on waste management in developed countries coupled with the shortcomings and nonapplication of the legislation lead to socially irresponsible behavior. We then go on to suggest that the involvement of stakeholders could be one way of stamping out practices of this kind.
- Subjects
HAZARDOUS waste management; HAZARDOUS waste management industry; SOCIAL responsibility of business; ELECTRONIC waste management; UNITED Nations; DEVELOPING countries; DEVELOPED countries
- Publication
Business & Society Review (00453609), 2011, Vol 116, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0045-3609
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8594.2011.00376.x