The stakeholder network is an important contributing factor in influencing corporations to be socially and ethically accountable. This chapter summarises some of the roles of the stakeholders discussed in the prior chapters with the help of an extended analysis of legitimacy theory. Members of...

The previous chapter documents the social compliance reporting of a major supply body in Bangladesh, the BGMEA. However, while organisations use social compliance reporting to maintain their legitimacy, it is a challenge to understand whether such reporting reflects the actual performance of the...

Although there is growing research that examines CSR reporting within the context of developing nations, few attempts have been made to theorize this phenomenon. The aim of this study is to explore the possibility of using the legitimacy theory as a plausible explanation for CSR reporting...