Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts.

ABSTRACT: Controversies around large-scale development projects offer many cases and insights which may be analyzed through the lenses of corporate social (ir)responsibility (CSIR) and business ethics studies. In this paper, we confront the CSR narratives and strategies of WeBuild (formerly known as Salini Impregilo), 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 o

SUBMITTER: Bontempi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9768011 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature