¶ … Internet Over the last several years, a wide variety of corporations have been facing increasing amounts of pressure to follow various environmental regulations. In the article titled the Determinants of Firm Compliance to Environmental Laws, Dao (2008) is focusing on how this impacting Vietnamese businesses. The way that this is accomplished is through using the Three Pillars Theoretical Framework. This is a theory stating that all firms will follow different environmental regulations based upon three criteria to include: regulatory, consequential and social cognitive pillars. (Dao, 2010, pp. 91 -- 112)

To determine how this is impacting businesses a study was conduct surveying 63 managers in Vietnam. The results were that executives are mostly focused on: the consequences, regulations and the social cognitive factors. The reason why, is from the fear of the negative impact on the firm. This is what pushed most managers to follow particular policies. In some cases, this could occur with government officials threatening to take specific punitive actions. While at other times, this will happen through possible customers, communities and social groups not approving of these activities. To prevent this, the majority of firms will take a proactive approach in addressing environmental regulations. (Dao, 2010, pp. 91 -- 112)

To determine this, there will be a focus on: unethical research behavior, the injured parties, the impact on the organization / the individual / society and how this can be resolved. Together, these different elements will provide specific insights as to the validity of the study that was conducted.
What unethical research behavior was involved?

The possible unethical behavior could have occurred when actuaries were conducting the research. This is because all data was collected through face-to-face interviews. The problem with this approach is that respondents could overly impact the way any kind of information is recorded (based on their rapport with actuaries). (Dao, 2010, pp. 91 -- 112)

When this happens, there will be a particular emphasis given to one area over of all of the others. As a result, the findings from the data are potentially flawed. This is when the results of the survey may easily have a number of irregularities. (Dao, 2010, pp. 91 -- 112)

Who were the injured parties?

The injured parties are those people who were respondents in the survey. This is occurring with them not having their responses recorded correctly. Moreover, future researchers will have trouble mirroring these…