Crimes empresariais ambientais e políticas de responsabilidade social corporativa: a intercausalidade entre os termos em um caso perfumado

Abstract

In the search for sustainability in the present days, companies format policy stuffed of the actions with responsible orientations in the social and environmental, at the same time that show concern for the relationships between its stakeholder groups. Explain this format of environmental management a delineation preventive and mitigation of environmental impacts, proposing that the environmental issue is an organizational value. But, from the moment that its operations cause environmental damage and social impacts to the society, such as atmospheric pollution, the environmental context is checkmated. Soon, as the practice of environmental crime comes against socially responsible discourse, this study aimed to understand the causes of a common effect, existing in these contexts: corporate environmental crime versus environmental responsibility. Methodological procedure to achieve the goals we conducted a survey of descriptive character and qualitative nature of documentation of the industries that are accompanied by the Secretaria do Meio Ambiente da Prefeitura Municipal de Uberlândia-MG. The method of procedure adopted was the case study in an industry with the largest historical occurrences of environmental crimes and involved as a source of evidence documentation related to environmental crimes, documents, publications and press releases related to social responsibility initiatives undertaken by the company. When analyzing the possible causes of a common effect, it was possible to show the existence of dissonance between the discourse of the organization that pointed to a stage where environmental initiatives were considered a value and of a preventive nature of environmental damage, but in fact, the company acted only in corrective regarding the mechanisms causing environmental damage. In addition, there was not concern in managing relationships with the community impacted by the crimes caused, mainly air pollution, which makes a case \"perfumed\". This demonstrates the lack of an integrated environmental management, since administrative actions do not go in the same direction of social and environmental policies. Thus, it was possible to characterize the relationships between environmental crimes versus environmental responsibility as: without direction, without pattern and indifferent. And from this characterization, it was possible to propose a framework that enables the company to seek an integrated environmental management.