Fighting elephants, suffering grass: oil exploitation in Nigeria

Umejesi, Ikechukwu; Thompson, Michael

doi:10.1108/jocm-03-2015-0048

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“…IDH rationale proposes that under such conditions mining firms are prone to place a high quality on capital maintenance and may not completely perceive the potential key advantage accumulating from CSR expenditures [14,15]. Additionally, mining firms face little burden for CSR from either the nations and communities or NGOs, the previous of which is engaged more on economic development and occupation creation in the midst of market reforms and needs satisfactory components for social implementation, and the last are just starting to create viable backing methods [16][17][18][19]. At long last, given moderately elevated amounts of bribery and corruption [20,21], wealthy mining companies with bigger measures of fiscal resources can all the more promptly avoid compliance.…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility: Institutional Behavior Differences in Extractive Industry

Marfo

Amoako

Antwi

et al. 2017

JERA

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The developed countries’ institutional research undertaken on corporate social responsibilities (CSR) have shown a positive relationship between accessibility of financial related assets and CSR. Contentions that we classified as the Institutional Difference Hypothesis (IDH) drawn from the institutional writing, on the other hand, propose that institutional contrasts amid of developing and the developed economies are prone to result in diverse CSR propositions. Incorporating the rationale of IDH with understanding of knowledge from slack resource theory, we contend that there exists a negative relationship between fiscal resources accessibility and CSR investments for mining companies in Ghana, a sub-Saharan African developing economy. We utilize a well-protected data from the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC), Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) and Ghana Chamber of mines (GCM) and find that Return on Ordinary Share, Return on Sales, and Net Profit were reliably connected with lower CSR disbursements. We highlight the ramifications of our discoveries for academics’ examination and corporate practitioners.

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Corporate Social Responsibility: Institutional Behavior Differences in Extractive Industry

Marfo

Amoako

Antwi

et al. 2017

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“…Therefore, to accelerate the economy, it is necessary to create downstream industries from various commodities, inseparable from land resources [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34].…”

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The Impact of Small-Scale Oil Palm Plantation Development on the Economy Multiplier Effect and Rural Communities Welfare

Syahza¹,

Tampubolon²,

Irianti³

et al. 2023

IJSDP

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This research aims to analyze the multiplier effect of small-scale oil palm plantations and the welfare of the community in rural areas during the first cycle. This developmental research conducted in Indonesia's largest oil plantation area, the Riau Province. Data were collected from farmers using the rapid rural appraisal technique through participatory approach. The data was analyzed to determine the regional economic multiplier number and the social welfare growth index. The results showed the magnitude of the multiplier effect index impacts the welfare index of rural communities. Oil palm farmers in rural areas have a more stable economy, and their consumption style follows the urban communities in creating an attitude of pride. The average family income of small-scale oil palm was more than five times bigger than non-oil palm farmers. In an effort to accelerate the economy in rural areas, especially in oil palm-producing areas in Indonesia, government policies related to pricing at the farm level are urgently needed to have an impact on increasing the income of small-scale farmers in rural areas.

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“…There are few previous studies which have comprehensively and specifically reviewed the regional economic empowerment through institutional arrangement and development of oil-palm-based downstream industry. Some studies which conducted partial tests are as follows: test on ACC by Hjalager (2001), Mwanri et al (2012), Kmieciak et al (2012), Shapira et al (2010), Rokhim et al (2017), Evans and Sawyer (2010), Ateljevic (2009) and Al- Dajani and Marlow (2013); institutional arrangement strategy by Salia et al (2018), Conteh (2012), Rahman et al (2017), Rosenberg (2012), Tijani and Yano (2007), Bayulgen (2015) and Lam (2016); and development of downstream industries (other than oil palm) by Otache (2017), Ibaba (2008), Mohanty (2012), Saifullah et al (2018), Kainiemi et al (2014), Ezema (2015), Yigitcanlar and Sarimin (2015), Ilori et al (2017), Iwami (2001), Xiong et al (2017), Khan (2014), Umejesi and Thompson (2015), Onuorah et al (2015) and Djoumessi et al (2018).…”

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Regional economic empowerment through oil palm economic institutional development

Syahza

Asmit

2019

MEQ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is sixfold: first, to know the ability of area carrying capacity to the development of downstream oil palm industry; second, to know the potential for the development of downstream oil palm industry in efforts to improve the community through employment and business opportunities in the regions; third, to find eco-friendly institutional arrangement strategies of oil palm farming in order to spur economic growth and development; fourth, to formulate strategies for potential environmental impact as a result of institutional arrangement and development of downstream oil palm industry, both in regional and national scope; fifth, to predict the economic multiplier effect as impact of institutional arrangement and development of oil-palm-based downstream industry; and sixth, to include production centers and development areas of oil-palm-based downstream industry in potential areas. Design/methodology/approach Research location was in potential areas of oil palm plantation development, either in the form of plasma through state-owned enterprises (BUMN) and private-owned enterprises (BUMS), or in the form of self-supporting by community. The research locations were divided into two parts, namely the land area and the coastal area. The land area of Riau consisted of Kampar, Rokan Hulu and Kuantan Singingi Regency, while the coastal area of Riau consisted of Pelalawan, Siak, Bengkalis, Indragiri Hilir, Indragiri Hulu and Rokan Hilir Regency. Both research areas had different productivity which was caused by differences in soil fertility. The required data were primary and secondary data. Findings Plantation activities have increased the mobility of goods in the villages, causing plantation activities to also open business and employment opportunities for people who are able to accept these opportunities. Since post-1998 crisis, the growth of oil palm plantation area in Riau increased sharply, namely in 1998, the area of oil palm plantations was 901,276 ha, in 2012, 1,119,798 ha and increased to 2,103,175 ha at the end of 2017. Through economic activities that produce goods and services required during the plantation process and the development, downstream industries will have backward linkages. The development of oil palm plantations in Riau has had an impact on economic activities in rural areas. The result of the research in the field is that the average income of farmers in the plantation subsector (especially oil palm) is Rp4,576,696 per month or $5,781.09 per year. The impact on investment in the estate subsector has been felt by rural communities. This condition also affects the purchasing power of the people, resulting in the increase of mobility of goods and people. During the period 2009–2016, rural communities enjoyed a high level of prosperity. During this period, the price of fresh fruit bunch at the farm level was quite profitable. On the other hand, the production of the plantation area also increased compared to the previous period. The impact of rising prices and increasing production of farmers is that the farmers’ welfare index in the countryside had a positive value of 0.43. This index showed the increase of farmers’ welfare from the previous period by 43 percent. Originality/value There are few previous studies which have comprehensively and specifically reviewed the regional economic empowerment through institutional arrangement and development of oil-palm-based downstream industry. The development of oil palm plantations aims to eliminate poverty and underdevelopment, especially in rural areas. In addition, it also pays attention to equity. In broad sense, agricultural development which is based on plantations aims to improve the welfare of the community so that there is a change in the pattern of life of the surrounding community. On the other hand, the success of plantation development that is based on oil palm agribusiness is expected to reduce income inequality between community groups and between regions.

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Fighting elephants, suffering grass: oil exploitation in Nigeria

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Corporate Social Responsibility: Institutional Behavior Differences in Extractive Industry

Corporate Social Responsibility: Institutional Behavior Differences in Extractive Industry

The Impact of Small-Scale Oil Palm Plantation Development on the Economy Multiplier Effect and Rural Communities Welfare

Regional economic empowerment through oil palm economic institutional development

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