Bontempi Antonio, Del Bene Daniela, Di Felice Louisa Jane
Geography Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Building B, Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Building ICTA-ICP (Z), Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
J Bus Ethics. 2023;182(1):7-32. doi: 10.1007/s10551-021-04946-6. Epub 2021 Dec 3.
Controversies around large-scale development projects offer many cases and insights which may be analyzed through the lenses of corporate social ()responsibility (CSR) and business ethics studies. In this paper, we confront the CSR narratives and strategies of (formerly known as ), an Italian transnational construction company. Starting from the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas), we collect evidence from NGOs, environmental justice organizations, journalists, scholars, and community leaders on socio-environmental injustices and controversies surrounding 38 large hydropower schemes built by the corporation throughout the last century. As a counter-reporting exercise, we code (un)sustainability discourses from a plurality of sources, looking at their discrepancy under the critical lenses of post-normal science and political ecology, with environmental justice as a normative framework. Our results show how the mismatch of narratives can be interpreted by considering the voluntary, self-reporting, non-binding nature of CSR accounting performed by a corporation wishing to grow in a global competitive market. Contributing to critical perspectives on political CS(I)R, we question the reliability of current CSR mechanisms and instruments, calling for the inclusion of complexity dimensions in and a re-politicization of CS(I)R accounting and ethics. We argue that the fields of post-normal science and political ecology can contribute to these goals.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10551-021-04946-6.
围绕大型开发项目的争议提供了许多案例和见解，可通过企业社会责任（CSR）和商业伦理研究的视角进行分析。在本文中，我们审视了意大利跨国建筑公司（前身为 ）的企业社会责任叙述和策略。我们从《环境正义全球地图集》（EJAtlas）入手，收集了非政府组织、环境正义组织、记者、学者和社区领袖提供的证据，内容涉及该公司在上个世纪建造的38个大型水电项目所引发的社会环境不公正现象和争议。作为一项反报告行动，我们对来自多个来源的（不）可持续性论述进行编码，从后常态科学和政治生态学的批判性视角审视它们之间的差异，并将环境正义作为规范框架。我们的研究结果表明，考虑到一家希望在全球竞争市场中发展的公司所进行的企业社会责任核算具有自愿、自我报告且无约束力的性质，如何解读叙述之间的不匹配。为批判性的政治企业社会责任视角做出贡献，我们质疑当前企业社会责任机制和工具的可靠性，呼吁在企业社会责任核算和伦理中纳入复杂性维度并重新进行政治化。我们认为后常态科学和政治生态学领域可以为实现这些目标做出贡献。
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