Corporate social responsibility in the water industry: A critical review

IF 6.8 1区 地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI:10.1002/wat2.1607
Cindy Figueroa, K. Lee, W. Jepson
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The public demand for companies to assume responsibility for social and environmental impacts of their operations has led to an increase in the number of industries adopting corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. The water industry, defined in this article as public and private suppliers of water, holds the unique responsibility to manage a critical natural resource. As such, a review of scholarship on CSR in the water industry provides an entry point to assess the specific role the water industry plays in addressing societal and environmental concerns. This review identifies three prominent themes that appear in the existing literature. The first theme investigates the motivations for the water industry to utilize CSR strategies; the second describes the limitations of current CSR frameworks; and the last is an assessment of whether CSR policies and practices differ between public and private water companies. Through a critical review of each theme, this article evaluates the level of CSR engagement in the water industry, and if CSR activity supports further privatization. Taken together, this review article provides a summary of the current state of research on CSR within the water industry, analyses limitations on current evaluation methods and frameworks, and connects the literature to broader themes on the privatization of water and market environmentalism. We conclude with a discussion of future research topics such as CSR barriers to implementation, water‐related CSR indicators, and the relationship of CSR policies to remunicipalization of water providers.
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水务行业的企业社会责任:批判性回顾
公众要求企业对其运营的社会和环境影响承担责任,这导致越来越多的行业采用企业社会责任(CSR)战略。在这篇文章中,水工业被定义为公共和私人的水供应商,在管理重要的自然资源方面负有独特的责任。因此,对水务行业企业社会责任学术研究的回顾提供了一个切入点,以评估水务行业在解决社会和环境问题方面发挥的具体作用。本综述确定了现有文献中出现的三个突出主题。第一个主题调查了水行业利用企业社会责任战略的动机;第二部分描述了当前CSR框架的局限性;最后是评估公共和私营水务公司的企业社会责任政策和实践是否存在差异。通过对每个主题的批判性回顾,本文评估了水务行业的企业社会责任参与水平,以及企业社会责任活动是否支持进一步的私有化。综上所述,这篇综述文章总结了水行业内企业社会责任研究的现状,分析了当前评估方法和框架的局限性,并将文献与水私有化和市场环境主义的更广泛主题联系起来。最后,我们讨论了未来的研究主题,如企业社会责任实施的障碍,与水相关的企业社会责任指标,以及企业社会责任政策与供水商社会责任公有化的关系。
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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water Environmental Science-Ecology
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