Critique by Occidental Petroleum of the Report by Judith Kimerling: 'Corporate Responsibility in Ecuador: The Many Faces of Oxy'
Article from: TDM 2 (2004), in International Commercial Arbitration
Occidental Petroleum
Summary
Ms Judith Kimerling's study, 'Corporate Responsibility in Ecuador: The Many Faces of Oxy', while purporting to be a scholarly analysis of Occidental's environmental practices in Ecuador, fails to demonstrate adherence to the principles of sound scholarly inquiry. The report contains neither a description of the research methodology nor the sampling and processing techniques employed to collect and verify the accuracy of the data upon which the report is based. The report also fails to provide a set of defined criteria as a basis for evaluating Occidental's ...