Multinational Corporations and Service Provision in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Legitimacy and Institutionalization Matter

Hönke, Jana; Thauer, Christian R.

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“…The second part of the special issue concentrates on efforts by external actors to directly contribute to the provision of collective goods and services, such as access to clean water, sanitation, and nutritious food (Beisheim et al. 2014), public security (Hönke and Thauer 2014), and public health (Schäferhoff as well as Hönke and Thauer 2014).…”

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“…International legitimation matters, but only to a limited degree. This points to the third source of legitimacy, the congruence or compatibility of international norms with domestically held norms or moral beliefs (Börzel and van Hüllen 2014; Hönke and Thauer 2014). National and/or local actors and communities are the critical players with regard to the acceptance of the activities of external actors as legitimate and appropriate.…”

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“…In areas of limited statehood, some of the functions that have traditionally been associated with the state have been assumed by external actors. For example, in 2000, the German automobile giant Daimler introduced a large‐scale HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program for its workers, their families, and local communities in South Africa (see Hönke and Thauer 2014). In 2003, the government of the Solomon Islands delegated security provision and law enforcement to the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) led by Australia and New Zealand (see Matanock 2014).…”

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External Actors, State‐Building, and Service Provision in Areas of Limited Statehood: Introduction

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This article introduces the themes and arguments of the special issue. While virtually all polities enjoy uncontested international legal sovereignty, there are wide variations in statehood, that is, the monopoly over the means of violence and the ability of the state to make and implement policies. Areas of limited statehood are not, however, ungoverned spaces where anarchy and chaos prevail. The provision of collective goods and services is possible even under extremely adverse conditions of fragile or failed statehood. We specify the conditions under which external efforts at state-building and service provision by state and nonstate actors can achieve their goals. We focus on the extent to which external actors enhance the capacity (statehood) of authority structures in weak states, or directly contribute to the provision of collective goods and services, such as public health, clean environment, social security, and infrastructure. We argue that three factors determine success: legitimacy, task complexity, and institutionalization, including the provision of adequate resources.This special issue begins with the empirical observation that the idealtypical conception of a consolidated state is misleading rather than illuminating. A consolidated state enjoys the privileges of international legal sovereignty, including recognition, the right to enter into treaties, and to join international organizations. It is a full "Westphalian/Vattelian" sovereign: Domestic authority structures are autonomously determined. It exercises effective domestic sovereignty, what we term here statehood, that is, the monopoly over the legitimate use of force and the ability to successfully make, implement, and enforce rules and regulations across all policy arenas within its territory (Krasner 1999;Risse 2011).This ideal typical construct is far removed from the situation that exists in most of the world's polities. Most relevant for this special issue, there are wide variations in statehood. These variations are here to stay and it makes little sense to orient external efforts at capacity-building and service provision toward an ideal of consolidated statehood that only exists in some parts of the world.

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“…Departing from mainstream conceptions of isomorphism as related to coercive pressures from the state in BRICS (Abreu et al, 2012), we highlight isomorphism processes of coercive, mimetic and normative nature stemming from global corporations and global actors. Our findings thus indicate the need for a wider governance lens in areas of limited statehood that accounts for the role of non-state actors (Börzel et al, 2012;Hönke and Thauer, 2014). However, we do not suggest that only intra-corporate dynamics are driving CSR in areas of limited statehood (Thauer, 2014), but rather a mix of micro, macro, national and global pressures and peculiar legitimacy-enhancing isomorphic processes (coercive, mimetic and normative) that are salient at the level of the organisational field.…”

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CSR in Afghanistan: a global CSR agenda in areas of limited statehood

Azizi

Jamali

2016

South Asian Journal of Global Business Research

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to explain the emergence of CSR in Afghanistan as a novel context in the South-Asian CSR debate. Design/methodology/approach -The findings of the paper are based on case studies of four corporations in the Afghan mobile telecommunications industry. Multiple sources of qualitative data are coded according to the analytical framework of the paper to generate the findings. Findings -The findings highlight that the Afghan national setting can be conceptualised as an "area of limited statehood" indicating the weak national institutional setting, which enables space for manoeuvring for non-state actors to play a pivotal role in business-society relations. The paper highlights that the CSR practices are driven by the multi-level organisational field that through a unique blend of global coercive, mimetic and normative pressures lead to convergence around explicit CSR themes.Research limitations/implications -The findings are based on CSR practices that are explicitly stated and do not include informal and/or implicit business-society practices in such contexts. Originality/value -This paper combines the literature on areas of limited statehood and the neo-institutional theory to explain the emergence of CSR the Afghan mobile telecommunications industry. The paper advocates for a shift from a national setting focus to a multi-level institutional field lens in providing contextualised explanation of the emergence of CSR in developing countries.

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“…However, there are major challenges with such training. The government has been reluctant to allow such involvement by an external company (Hönke and Thauer 2014). Furthermore, state security contingents rotate on a regular basis (AGA 2008: 17).…”

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