Effects of Industrial Operations on Socio-Environmental and Public Health Degradation: Evidence from a Least Developing Country (LDC)

Asadul Hoque, Muhammad Mohiuddin and Zhan Su
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Asadul Hoque: College of Business, American University of Kurdistan (AUK), Zakho Rd. Sumel-Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Muhammad Mohiuddin: Department of Marketing and International Business, School of Business and Economics, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8, Canada
Zhan Su: Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Laval University, Ville de Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-22

Abstract: Socio-ecological consequences emanating from inadequate compliance of environmental standards by the business firms’ operations in institutionally weak developing countries must be included in the research on organizations and their relationship with the natural environment. Business firms should be held accountable for the socio-ecological degradation generated from their unsustainable business operations. To improve our understanding of the environmental degradation created by polluting manufacturing firms in developing countries, we have adopted an exploratory qualitative research approach. Results of this study indicate that polluting industries’ (e.g., tannery, pulp & paper, fertilizer, textile, and cement) unsustainable practices have enormous impact on human health and the natural environment, resulting in enormous socio-ecological problems that ultimately create huge social costs in countries such as Bangladesh. Corporate environmental responsiveness is largely nonexistent in the polluting industries in Bangladesh.

Keywords: socio-ecological problems; industrial firms’ operations; institutional pressure; corporate environmental responsiveness; developing country; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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