Taking Terrain Literally: Grounding Local Adaptation to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries

Dougherty, Michael L.; Olsen, Tricia D.

doi:10.1007/s10551-013-1643-0

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“…The theoretical positions adopted are often similar to those we encounter in the broader literature, with a predominant use of institutional theory and stakeholder theory (e.g. Amran et al 2013;Dougherty and Olsen 2014;Karam and Jamali 2013;Xun 2013). Yet, we also see the integration of macro-level theories derived from various disciplines, including: relational governance theory (e.g.…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study

Jamali

Karam

2016

Int J Management Reviews

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Given the rising interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) globally, its local expressions are as varied as they are increasingly visible in both developed and developing countries. This paper presents a multilevel review of the literature on CSR in developing countries and highlights the key differentiators and nuanced CSR-related considerations that qualify it as a distinctive field of study. This review entails a content analysis of 452 articles spanning two-and-a-half decades . Based on this comprehensive review, the authors identify the key differentiating attributes of the literature on CSR in developing countries in relation to depictions of how CSR is conceived or 'CSR Thinking' and depictions of how CSR is practiced and implemented or 'CSR Doing'. The authors synthesize from there five key themes that capture the main aspects of variation in this literature, namely: (1) complex institutional antecedents within the national business system (NBS); (2) complex macro-level antecedents outside the NBS; (3) the salience of multiple actors involved in formal and informal governance; (4) hybridized and other nuanced forms of CSR expressions; and (5) varied scope of developmental and detrimental CSR consequences. The paper concludes by accentuating how the nuanced forms of CSR in the developing world are invariably contextualized and locally shaped by multi-level factors and actors embedded within wider formal and informal governance systems.

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Section: Research Questionsmentioning

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study

Jamali

Karam

2016

Int J Management Reviews

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“…The digital spread of artistic intervention builds on similar instances in PNG where art has been used to contest resource extraction and development narratives in the country (Rockefeller 2019). Whether or not the shifting of the 'social terrain' (Dougherty and Olsen 2014) to new, virtual geographies helps to consolidate the critique of growth-led DSM remains to be seen. A new artistic commission from the Thyssen Borzemisa Foundation that juxtaposes deep-sea mining footage and its human impacts, suggests that it might.…”

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Performing ‘blue degrowth’: critiquing seabed mining in Papua New Guinea through creative practice

Childs

2019

Sustain Sci

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Scripted as a sustainable alternative to terrestrial mining, the licence for the world's first commercial deep-sea mining (DSM) site was issued in Papua New Guinea in 2011 to extract copper and gold from a deposit situated 1600 m below the surface of the Bismarck Sea. Whilst DSM's proponents locate it as emergent part of a blue economy narrative, its critics point to the ecological and economic uncertainty that characterises the proposed practice. Yet, due its extreme geography, DSM is also profoundly elusive to direct human experience and thus presents a challenge to forms of resistance against an industry extolled as having 'no human impact'. Against this background, this paper analyses the ways in which 'blue degrowth'-as a distinct form of counter-narrative-might be 'performed', and which imagined (and alternative) geographies are invoked accordingly. To do this it critically reflects upon 2 years of participatory research in the Duke of York Islands focusing on three, community-developed methods of resisting DSM. Practices of counter mapping, sculpture and participatory drama all sought to 'perform' the deep-ocean environment imagined as relational whilst simultaneously questioning the very notion of 'economy' central to the discourse of 'blue growth'.

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“…For example, Callanan () uses Apple Computer to illustrate how globalization and international value chains have had a negative impact on “virtuous capitalism.” Claasen and Roloff () examine legitimacy issues in the case of De Beers’ operations in Namibia. Dougherty and Olsen () shed light on how biophysical terrain can have an effect on the effectiveness of CSR strategies through the lens of two industrial‐scale gold mines in Guatemala. A total of 14 articles (including 19 CSV citations) were examined, as indicated by an asterisk in the Appendix table.…”

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Examining the win‐win proposition of shared value across contexts: Implications for future application

Voltan

Hervieux

Mills

2017

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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This article examines the concept of creating shared value (CSV) as articulated by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, in non-Western and Western contexts. We define non-Western contexts as those in so-called "developing" countries and emerging economies, whereas Western ones pertain to dominant thinking in "developed" regions. We frame our research in postcolonial theory and offer an overview of existing critiques of CSV. We conduct a critical discourse analysis of 66 articles to identify how CSV is being cited by authors, and potential underlying power dynamics that affect its relevance for non-Western contexts. Our review exposes increasingly critical views about the paradoxical positioning of CSV as an instrumental concept that can offer "win-win" solutions, particularly from those working in non-Western settings. Western perspectives generally tend to be more supportive of its instrumental nature, but also recognize the increasing complexity of the business-society nexus and stakeholder engagement. We argue that the CSV framework requires further development to maintain credibility and applicability, especially in non-Western domains.

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Taking Terrain Literally: Grounding Local Adaptation to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries

Cited by 49 publications

References 31 publications

Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study

Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study

Performing ‘blue degrowth’: critiquing seabed mining in Papua New Guinea through creative practice

Examining the win‐win proposition of shared value across contexts: Implications for future application

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