Regulatory Frameworks, Issues of Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability: Reflections Drawn from the PERCAN Initiative

Campbell, Bonnie; Grégoire, Etienne Roy; Laforce, Myriam

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“…The neoliberal extractive agenda may allow for the easy entry and legal stability of companies and concessions, yet it has at the same time deepened and in some cases activated both an extractive industry legitimacy crisis and a deeper state legitimacy crisis. As Watts (2004:61) notes, oil may generate conditions that challenge and undermine “the very tenets of the modern nation‐state.” Put simply, the process of governments losing control and companies gaining authority is not without legitimacy effects, as the boundaries between the private and the public spheres, the technical and the political, are blurred (Campbell et al :93). The centrality of corporate power in conducting safeguard operations alongside high‐level corruption in handling oil exploration contracts has reinforced an ever lurking mistrust in the state apparatus.…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Structural Illegitimacymentioning

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Oil territorialities, social life, and legitimacy in the Peruvian Amazon

Larsen

2017

Economic Anthropology

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Extractive industry activities are today an integral part of social life and economic relations across multiple sites. Yet, how and under which conditions do extractive industries insert themselves within and potentially transform territorial dynamics, social relations, and local governance arrangements? The debate is often polarized between competing narratives of social critique depicting corporate power, conflict, and imposition and insider perspectives stressing corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability. This article offers an ethnographic account of oil exploration in the Peruvian Amazon coupled with a broader discussion about legitimacy building at the extractive frontier. Addressing the multiple ways in which oil companies engage with local constituencies and socially embedded economic relations, it suggests how social relations have gone from being a residual matter of contention to becoming an area of strategic intervention and corporate action through safeguard measures and social licenses.

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Section: Neoliberalism and Structural Illegitimacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Oil territorialities, social life, and legitimacy in the Peruvian Amazon

Larsen

2017

Economic Anthropology

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“…Whereas there has been much analysis of mining, conflicts and sustainability in the Peruvian Andes (Bebbington et al 2010;Bury 2008;Campbell et al 2011), oil developments in the Amazon have received somewhat less attention, with notable exceptions (Finer et al 2008;Orta-Martíneza and Finer 2010). Annual oil production from the Peruvian Amazon has been estimated to fuel less than four hours of current global oil consumption (Orta-Martíneza and Finer 2010: 216), yet remains at the heart of current socio-environmental conflicts.…”

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Post-frontier Resource Governance

Larsen

2015

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As tomorrow's challenges become increasingly global and the North-South divide narrows, the International Relations and Development Series edited by the Graduate Institute in Geneva relies on an approach to global problems that integrates international relations and development studies. It aims to promote research concentrating on global and multi-level governance, involving the United Nations and other international organisations as well as key regions and regional organisations. The distinctiveness of this series lies in the combination of a wide disciplinary range, including political science, international economics, international law, anthropology and history from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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Theoretical contributions towards rethinking corporate social responsibility

Santos

2014

Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose incorporating another theoretical perspective enabling corporate social responsibility (CSR) to be approached more structurally and with correspondingly broader impacts. Despite CSR being associated with competitive advantage and providing recognised sustainability related benefits, it is argued that the individual CSR results of each company and community acting separately remain insufficient not only in terms of individual competitiveness but also in terms of achieving a global and systemic improvement. Design/methodology/approach – It is from this perspective that the clusters concept and the territorial social responsibility (SR) concept are advanced as susceptible to bringing important insights for advancing SR. This article seeks to reflect on the potential of SR networks for strengthening competitiveness and bringing about sustainable development. Based upon a theoretical review of the CSR literature, limitations are discussed before setting out alternative action strategies for the construction of networks focusing upon generating territorial dynamics within the logic of global sustainability. Findings – The idea of CSR clusters and territorial SR presupposes groupings of companies located in the same territory and engaged in some degree of interaction with other local actors to optimise practices contributing towards sustained regional development in an integrated and global perspective. The definition of social goals shared by different actors structured within a network thus improves the design and implementation of actions that extend beyond a micro-scale of action, with significant benefits accruing to local communities. Analysis of these forms of social innovation, based on integrated CSR networks, constitutes the central objective of the present research. Research limitations/implications – This theoretical perspective is, in turn, based upon the assumption that only the consideration of a wider and more extensive conception of CSR, which aligns and guides various social actors (companies, civil society organisations and local authorities) and seeks to nurture integrated SR networks, will be able to drive development characterised by significant higher levels of sustainability. Practical implications – These concepts (SR clusters and territorial SR) presuppose groupings of companies located in the same territory and engaged in some degree of interaction with other local actors are able to optimise practices contributing towards sustained regional development from an integrated and global perspective. The definition of social goals shared by different actors structured within a network thus improves the design and implementation of actions that extend beyond a micro-scale of action, with significant benefits accruing to local communities. Social implications – Considering a larger scope of intervention, connecting different social actors (companies, civil society organisations and local authorities) and working for the construction of a development model based on the concept of sustainability constitute the relevance of clusters to CSR and the SR of territories. Originality/value – This article highlights the position that SR, to have any effective and widespread impact, has to extend beyond isolated actions uncoordinated with overall territorial development. The challenge involves establishing a connection between the business level and civil society organisations in which each acts within their own spheres and with their respective specific competences and skills whilst able to ensure cooperation and engagement in actions focussed upon improving the quality of life of the host community and bringing about cluster development in overall terms. This theoretical perspective is, in turn, based upon the assumption that only the consideration of a wider and more extensive conception of CSR, which aligns and guides various social actors (companies, civil society organisations and local authorities) and seeks to nurture integrated SR networks, will be able to drive development characterised by significantly higher levels of sustainability.

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Regulatory Frameworks, Issues of Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability: Reflections Drawn from the PERCAN Initiative

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Oil territorialities, social life, and legitimacy in the Peruvian Amazon

Oil territorialities, social life, and legitimacy in the Peruvian Amazon

Post-frontier Resource Governance

Theoretical contributions towards rethinking corporate social responsibility

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