Wijethilake, Chaminda and Adhikari, Pawan and Upadhaya, Bedanand (2024) Regulatory capture in transboundary waste dumping: (Lack of) accountability in the Global North – South context. Organization and Environment, 37 (1). pp. 84-116. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266241235220
Wijethilake, Chaminda and Adhikari, Pawan and Upadhaya, Bedanand (2024) Regulatory capture in transboundary waste dumping: (Lack of) accountability in the Global North – South context. Organization and Environment, 37 (1). pp. 84-116. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266241235220
Wijethilake, Chaminda and Adhikari, Pawan and Upadhaya, Bedanand (2024) Regulatory capture in transboundary waste dumping: (Lack of) accountability in the Global North – South context. Organization and Environment, 37 (1). pp. 84-116. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266241235220
Abstract
By showcasing Sri Lanka’s repatriation of hazardous hospital waste to the UK, this paper explores how the transboundary movement of waste management business model functions in the Global South. It builds on a framework that integrates the market and legal modes of accountability, regulatory capture and an ethic of accountability. Data were collected using online ethnography and an interpretive case study method. The study demonstrates how the adherence to market and legal modes of accountability and the violation of an ethic of accountability have created loopholes for actors to capture regulatory and institutional provisions, making the transboundary waste management business redundant in the Global South. The traditional business model pursued in waste management has proved inadequate in realising reciprocal societal rights and responsibilities and promoting public wellbeing. This has resulted in an erosion of public trust in government and state agencies. Thus, we argue that accountability-based accounting and the ethic of accountability can potentially mitigate the opportunities for regulatory capture, serve the public interests and protect the ecosystem.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | ethic of accountability; Global North; Global South; regulatory capture; transboundary movement of solid waste; waste management |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2024 15:50 |
Last Modified: | 05 Apr 2024 14:51 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37773 |
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