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Business Ethics in Bangladesh, 2015

Business and ethics are uncontroversial notions while however its integration as “business ethics... more Business and ethics are uncontroversial notions while however its integration as “business ethics” is then again a widely controversial notion. Is “the organized effort (…) to produce and sell, for a profit, the goods and services that satisfy society’s needs” (Pride, et al. 2014) contradictory to what is right and what is wrong – a “collective illusion”, where individuals think it is something it really is not (Ruse 1986: 257)? The prevalence of scandals, fraud, and various forms of executive misconduct in corporations has spurred the watchful eye of the public (Kuratko 2009: 87). Moreover, Multinational corporations (MNCs) are considered suspect in developing countries (LDCs) by their own populations and by others, especially in those countries perceived as corrupt (Demuijnck and Ngnodjom 2011: 253). Although scholarship has examined multinational corporations (MNCs) economic and human rights impact on less developed countries (LDCs), to the best knowledge of the author, no conceptualized framework summarizing the relationship between business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and multinational corporations (MNCs) economic and human rights impact on less developed countries (LDCs), human rights and human rights protection has been provided. The objective of this dissertation is thus to provide a systematic report on the literature concerned with business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), multinational corporations (MNCs) economic and human rights impact on less developed countries (LDCs), human rights as well as human rights protection on the example of business ethics in Bangladesh, including an in-depth interview with an international student from Bangladesh. Based on a comparative country analysis, the author found that poverty rates of Bangladesh, with regard to its vast international attention, exceed the majority of those of Sub Saharan African countries. In this argument, the author concludes that business ethics in Bangladesh is nonexistent as multinational corporations (MNCs), whose presence is indisputable in Bangladesh, do more economic and political harm and perpetuate poverty.

Decolonizing Development - Racialized Ontologies and Social Hierarchies in UK Higher Education (Master Dissertation - Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, England), 2018

Does development discourse reinforce a colonial paradigm? I have analyzed two mechanisms in the r... more Does development discourse reinforce a colonial paradigm? I have analyzed two mechanisms in the reproduction of colonial and racial ontologies in development education: Racialized social hierarchies and the discourses produced in Development Departments. To this end, I carried out the first statistical analysis of students and staff race, nationality, and gender at 23 Development Departments in the United Kingdom throughout the academic years 12/13, 14/15 and 16/17. To analyse perceptions of development discourse, I carried out 23 interviews with staff and postgraduate students in development at the University of Sussex. Results of the quantitative analysis show that people from certain parts of Asia, South America, Sub Saharan Africa, Middle East – North Africa and Non-Western Europe are structurally excluded from the instance in which development discourse is produced and diffused by white western females, exposing apartheid. Results of the quantitative analysis also shows that development discourse has a strong racial component and still is a western centric top-down approach.

Business Ethics in Bangladesh, 2015

Business and ethics are uncontroversial notions while however its integration as “business ethics... more Business and ethics are uncontroversial notions while however its integration as “business ethics” is then again a widely controversial notion. Is “the organized effort (…) to produce and sell, for a profit, the goods and services that satisfy society’s needs” (Pride, et al. 2014) contradictory to what is right and what is wrong – a “collective illusion”, where individuals think it is something it really is not (Ruse 1986: 257)? The prevalence of scandals, fraud, and various forms of executive misconduct in corporations has spurred the watchful eye of the public (Kuratko 2009: 87). Moreover, Multinational corporations (MNCs) are considered suspect in developing countries (LDCs) by their own populations and by others, especially in those countries perceived as corrupt (Demuijnck and Ngnodjom 2011: 253). Although scholarship has examined multinational corporations (MNCs) economic and human rights impact on less developed countries (LDCs), to the best knowledge of the author, no conceptualized framework summarizing the relationship between business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and multinational corporations (MNCs) economic and human rights impact on less developed countries (LDCs), human rights and human rights protection has been provided. The objective of this dissertation is thus to provide a systematic report on the literature concerned with business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), multinational corporations (MNCs) economic and human rights impact on less developed countries (LDCs), human rights as well as human rights protection on the example of business ethics in Bangladesh, including an in-depth interview with an international student from Bangladesh. Based on a comparative country analysis, the author found that poverty rates of Bangladesh, with regard to its vast international attention, exceed the majority of those of Sub Saharan African countries. In this argument, the author concludes that business ethics in Bangladesh is nonexistent as multinational corporations (MNCs), whose presence is indisputable in Bangladesh, do more economic and political harm and perpetuate poverty.

Decolonizing Development - Racialized Ontologies and Social Hierarchies in UK Higher Education (Master Dissertation - Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, England), 2018

Does development discourse reinforce a colonial paradigm? I have analyzed two mechanisms in the r... more Does development discourse reinforce a colonial paradigm? I have analyzed two mechanisms in the reproduction of colonial and racial ontologies in development education: Racialized social hierarchies and the discourses produced in Development Departments. To this end, I carried out the first statistical analysis of students and staff race, nationality, and gender at 23 Development Departments in the United Kingdom throughout the academic years 12/13, 14/15 and 16/17. To analyse perceptions of development discourse, I carried out 23 interviews with staff and postgraduate students in development at the University of Sussex. Results of the quantitative analysis show that people from certain parts of Asia, South America, Sub Saharan Africa, Middle East – North Africa and Non-Western Europe are structurally excluded from the instance in which development discourse is produced and diffused by white western females, exposing apartheid. Results of the quantitative analysis also shows that development discourse has a strong racial component and still is a western centric top-down approach.