Corporate sustainability and indigenous community engagement in the extractive industry

Boiral, Olivier; Saizarbitoria, Iñaki Heras; Brotherton, Marie‐Christine

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.311

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“…Avery and Hooper (2017) and Fleming, Wise, Hansen, and Sams (2017) investigate the role of business in SDGs implementation by adopting case studies. Boiral, Heras‐Saizarbitoria, and Brotherton (2019) and Gössling and Michael Hall (2019) focus on businesses belonging to specific industries, extractive and tourism, respectively. Guandalini, Sun, and Zhou (2019) and Muff, Kapalka, and Dyllick (2018) assess the implementation of SDGs through strategic business tools.…”

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Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call for action by all countries that provide a global framework for achieving global development while balancing social, economic, and environmental sustainability. SDGs are addressed to all actors in society, but both academia and professional recognize the particular importance of businesses. However, research is still needed to understand the role of companies as sustainable development agents. Relying on Scopus database consultation, the current research adopts an interdisciplinary systematic literature review to investigate, analyze, and present state-of-the-art academic literature on the role of businesses in tackling SDGs. The final sample comprises 101 papers published between 2015 and 2020. It provides evidence that the main topics discussed by scholars are related to aspects of strategy execution. Recognizing different streams that are currently unexplored-despite strictly related to strategic business activities and to the sustainable development as a whole-the study provides many insights for future research on business and SDGs.

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Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

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“…Lastly, the COVID-19 crisis has created new expectations among stakeholders, including regarding organizations' proactive participation in collective efforts to fight the pandemic, their responsibility in preventing illness in certain particularly affected sectors and in limiting the rise of unemployment, and their resilience to a crisis likely to create numerous disruptions in the supply of essential goods and services [15,20]. In addition to these broader issues, the consideration of health questions is an integral part of organizations' sustainable development practices [21][22][23][24][25][26]. Indeed, health is explicitly covered by the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 3, Good Health and Well-Being), to which a growing number of organizations adhere [25,27].…”

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Organizations’ Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review of Business Articles

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The objective of this study was to analyze the early COVID-19 crisis management practices implemented in organizations based on a scoping review of relevant business articles published on this issue in newspapers and magazines between March and May 2020. In total, after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria on 2707 potentially relevant articles, 246 articles describing organizational initiatives to manage COVID-19 were selected and analyzed in detail. The results of this study highlight the opportunities and threats arising from the pandemic as well as the most innovative measures put in place, particularly in the areas of health, human resources management (HRM), work organization, social and environmental responsibility, and crisis management. The description of the main practices identified and their illustration through various examples show the importance of corporate sustainability in managing the pandemic and demonstrate the cross-cutting nature of this crisis, which affects most corporate functions simultaneously. This study also makes it possible to identify certain leaders’ approaches that can be considered exemplary or, in contrast, that should be avoided, while highlighting the paradoxes and difficulties of assessing corporate social responsibility in times of crisis.

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“…In contrast to these ideals of engagement, and how they flow from broader ideas of CSR, indigenous perspectives on engagement are often not taken into consideration (Boiral et al , 2019), or some corporate officials exhibit the narcissism of knowing what is best for everyone their mining activities affect. Consequently, indigenous peoples continue to feel overlooked, not heard and given no chance to express their opinions about the impacts of the mining and the destruction of their territories.…”

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Corporate community relations and development: engagement with indigenous peoples

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge about community relations and development (CRD) activities done in conjunction with mining activities of multinational companies affecting indigenous peoples and thus help improve relationships between them, despite continuing bad consequences the people continue to endure. It is through such better relationships that these consequences may be redressed and mitigated, and greater sharing of benefits of mining may occur, bearing in mind what constitutes benefits may differ from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples and the miners. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach is taken, including interviews with company officials responsible for CRD activities, elaborated with observations, company and public documents and previous literature about these mining operations and the peoples. Findings The CRD activities have gradually increased compared with their absence previously. They are officially labelled social investment in community development programmes, and are funded from profits and couched in terms of human development, human rights, preservation of culture and physical development of infrastructure. Dissatisfied with programme quality and relevance, company officials now relate with indigenous people, their leaders and representatives in ways called engagement and partnerships. Practical implications The findings can inform policies and practices of the parties to CRD, which in this West Papua case would be the miners and their company, CRD practitioners, the indigenous peoples and the civil authorities at the local and national level and aid industry participants. Social implications The study acknowledges and addresses social initiatives to develop the indigenous peoples affected by mining. Originality/value The study extends older studies in the same territory before CRD had matured, and corroborates and elaborates other studies of CRD in different territories.

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Corporate sustainability and indigenous community engagement in the extractive industry

Cited by 31 publications

References 88 publications

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

Organizations’ Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review of Business Articles

Corporate community relations and development: engagement with indigenous peoples

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