Extracting Accountability : Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility

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Tác giả: Jessica M Smith

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0262366151

ISBN-13: 978-0262542166

Ký hiệu phân loại: 174.962 Occupational ethics

Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2021

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (328 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 227432

 How engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability. The growing movement toward corporate social responsibility (CSR) urges corporations to promote the well-being of people and the planet rather than the sole pursuit of profit. In Extracting Accountability, Jessica Smith investigates how the public accountability of corporations emerges from the everyday practices of the engineers who work for them. Focusing on engineers who view social responsibility as central to their profession, she finds the corporate context of their work prompts them to attempt to reconcile competing domains of accountability-to formal guidelines, standards, and policies
  to professional ideals
  to the public
  and to themselves. Their efforts are complicated by the distributed agency they experience as corporate actors: they are not always authors of their actions and frequently act through others. Drawing on extensive interviews, archival research, and fieldwork, Smith traces the ways that engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries accounted for their actions to multiple publics-from critics of their industry to their own friends and families. She shows how the social license to operate and an underlying pragmatism lead engineers to ask how resource production can be done responsibly rather than whether it should be done at all. She analyzes the liminality of engineering consultants, who experienced greater professional autonomy but often felt hamstrung when positioned as outsiders. Finally, she explores how critical participation in engineering education can nurture new accountabilities and chart more sustainable resource futures.
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