Responsibility is a crucial component of corporate sustainability. Deviation from responsibility is considered as irresponsible corporate practice. The present article highlights the issue of honey adulteration as an irresponsible corporate practice. The study is based on the Centre for Science and Environment investigation report on honey adulteration business in India. The article uses thematic analysis through descriptive research design with an inductive approach to show how honey adulteration is an irresponsible practice within the core area of corporate responsibilities—economic, legal and ethical domains. Honey adulteration is an irresponsible practice by the corporate in its core areas of responsibility and simultaneously affects all the stakeholders in its business relationship. Eventually, it would affect the business’s credibility and sustainability in the long run, if the issues are not appropriately addressed. The findings of the article suggest that to achieve business sustainability, corporations need to internalize and institutionalize the core responsibilities and government guidelines in their business operation. On the basis of the findings, the article offers relevant policy and practical implications for corporate to stay away from irresponsible business practices and suggests scopes for future research in the domain.
This article explores the relationship between displacement-induced alienation and ecology inthe tribal region due to development projects. It discusses the socio-cultural alienation of displaced people in tribal areas from a Marxian perspective, such as isolation from traditional social structure, informal economy, mutual cooperation and solidarity, beliefs and practices, and age-old relationship with nature. The advent of the development project led to ecological risk in the backward regions abundantly rich with resources inhabited by tribals, and the tribals had to face the wrath of environmental degradation. The article argues that in the process of social change due to development-induced alienation, it has given rise to ‘Tribal Neo-poverty’ replacing the poverty that existed previously among the tribals.
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