How does the Environmental disaster affect CSR in terms of companies trying to achieve Legitimacy relating to the BP oil Spill (Gulf of Mexico) case?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background chapter1

Environmental initiatives2

Introduction7

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW10

Section 1:10

Corporate social responsibility10

Purpose of CSR relating to SAR (social Accounting Reporting)10

Example why CSR was developed11

The purpose of CSR12

Why business use CSR12

Problems of CSR throughout time12

What is Legitimacy Theory?13

The link of CSR with Legitimacy15

Greenwashing17

Exxon Valdez18

Bhopal disaster19

The TMI Accident19

GRI20

AA100020

Section 221

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY27

Participant characteristics30

Sampling frame and instrumentation31

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION34

BP in the accounting form38

REFERENCES39

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background chapter

BP plc as known internationally in a firm which is associated with the elements and configurations of the oiling and other energy resources. It is a multinational company based with the British foundation having the headquarters within London, United Kingdom. With the help of its revenues and productive affiliations, the organization has managed to get the top most rankings among the world's largest oil and gas companies. Being such big of a name within the industry, ironically BP holds a record which is not as efficient enough for the cause of its reputation as a company.

In 1991, BP was named as the most polluting company that was found within the records of US based EPA toxic release data information. The fatal explosion which the company was responsible for in March, 2005 broke the clean air act and because of the same reason the United States Department of Justice announced that BP was supposed to pay allocated charges as well as violation fee for the accident. Under the clean air act, the amount which BP had to pay was about $500 million as a criminal fine, the largest ever recorded and accessed (www.lsureveille.com).

Such instances give an impact on how the company has been going through consequences and bad environmental impacts and ...