Stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in an emerging economy

The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of key stakeholders on corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in Bangladesh. The paper addresses a salient gap in the CSER literature evidenced by the dearth of studies that explore the views of non-manageria...

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Main Authors: Hossain, Md. Moazzem, Rowe, Anna, Quaddus, Mohammed
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Format: Conference Paper
Published: Unknown 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16260
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author Hossain, Md. Moazzem
Rowe, Anna
Quaddus, Mohammed
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Rowe, Anna
Quaddus, Mohammed
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description The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of key stakeholders on corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in Bangladesh. The paper addresses a salient gap in the CSER literature evidenced by the dearth of studies that explore the views of non-managerial and economically less powerful stakeholders from an emerging economy such as Bangladesh. This study applied qualitative research method and utilised philosophical notions such as constructivist ontology and interpretive epistemology. A series of in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted with 14 key stakeholder groups, complemented by utilizing observations with pragmatic local working knowledge from one of the researchers. By using the predominant system-oriented theories such as legitimacy theory, stakeholder theory and institutional theory, this research found that stakeholders expect more institutional involvement including media, NGOs, regulatory authority and civil societies’ support to ensure more CSER practices and reporting by Bangladeshi companies. The findings also report that stakeholders are not satisfied with the current CSER practices and reporting due to organisations’ focus on marketing and profit making objectives. This study suggests that local standard setting bodies along with institutional involvement can play a significant role in fulfilling stakeholders’ expectations towards CSER reporting in Bangladesh.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-162602017-01-30T11:54:50Z Stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in an emerging economy Hossain, Md. Moazzem Rowe, Anna Quaddus, Mohammed Unknown Stakeholders expectations Corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) reporting Bangladesh The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of key stakeholders on corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in Bangladesh. The paper addresses a salient gap in the CSER literature evidenced by the dearth of studies that explore the views of non-managerial and economically less powerful stakeholders from an emerging economy such as Bangladesh. This study applied qualitative research method and utilised philosophical notions such as constructivist ontology and interpretive epistemology. A series of in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted with 14 key stakeholder groups, complemented by utilizing observations with pragmatic local working knowledge from one of the researchers. By using the predominant system-oriented theories such as legitimacy theory, stakeholder theory and institutional theory, this research found that stakeholders expect more institutional involvement including media, NGOs, regulatory authority and civil societies’ support to ensure more CSER practices and reporting by Bangladeshi companies. The findings also report that stakeholders are not satisfied with the current CSER practices and reporting due to organisations’ focus on marketing and profit making objectives. This study suggests that local standard setting bodies along with institutional involvement can play a significant role in fulfilling stakeholders’ expectations towards CSER reporting in Bangladesh. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16260 Unknown restricted
spellingShingle Stakeholders expectations
Corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) reporting
Bangladesh
Hossain, Md. Moazzem
Rowe, Anna
Quaddus, Mohammed
Stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in an emerging economy
title Stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in an emerging economy
title_full Stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in an emerging economy
title_fullStr Stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in an emerging economy
title_full_unstemmed Stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in an emerging economy
title_short Stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) practices and reporting in an emerging economy
title_sort stakeholders’ perspective of corporate social and environmental responsibility (cser) practices and reporting in an emerging economy
topic Stakeholders expectations
Corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) reporting
Bangladesh
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16260