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Hazardous Waste Management and Corporate Social Responsibility: Illegal Trade of Electrical and Electronic Waste
Author(s) -
BOUDIER FABIENNE,
BENSEBAA FAOUZI
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
business and society review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1467-8594
pISSN - 0045-3609
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8594.2011.00376.x
Subject(s) - hazardous waste , legislation , developing country , business , upstream (networking) , extended producer responsibility , electronic waste , downstream (manufacturing) , corporate social responsibility , developed country , international trade , waste management , economics , economic growth , engineering , law , marketing , political science , telecommunications , population , demography , sociology
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.