 Sustainable and socially responsible business: doable reality or just a luxury? An exploratory study of the Bangladeshi manufacturing SMEsMd Nazmul Hasan World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2018, vol. 14, issue 4, 473-506 Abstract: Drawing on the ISO 26000: 2010 - Guidance on Social Responsibility, this study investigates the extent to which Bangladeshi manufacturing SMEs are incorporating sustainability into their day-to-day business activities. The findings reconfirm the existence of the so called 'attitude-behaviour' gap. The barriers that hinder the sustainable engagement of SMEs include corruption, a weak regulatory environment, inefficient or ill-suited government and external support, and a lack of awareness of the environmental aspects of SR. In addition, this research reveals that Bangladeshi manufacturing SMEs do, to a certain degree, implement sustainability; only those few issues that suit the owner-managers' personal motives are addressed, while some others are neglected. Finally, it has been found that the business type and size, and the owner-managers' educational attainments have no significant influence on the degree of adoption of sustainable and socially responsible business practices by Bangladeshi manufacturing SMEs. Keywords: small and medium-sized enterprises; SMEs; social responsibility; ISO 26000; ethics; sustainability; developing countries; Bangladesh. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:wremsd:v:14:y:2018:i:4:p:473-506 Access Statistics for this article More articles in World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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