A critical perspective on corporate social responsibility

Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby

doi:10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0021

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“…Failure to deliver those projects undermines the citizen's welfare, and leads to the loss of billons of rands. It has been revealed that the extent of these failures varies within and across the country, driving national, and global inequalities (Bobby Banerjee, ). The Good Governance Learning Network () revealed that public perceptions on local government are negative; the results show that the level of trust in local government is in the minority at 48.1%.…”

Section: Challenges Of Political Influence In Local Governmentmentioning

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Public service delivery in South Africa: The political influence at local government level

Masuku

Jili

2019

Journal of Public Affairs

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This paper analyses poor service delivery at local government level, which is attributed to the politicisation of administrative components in municipalities, resulting in poor local governance. The public service delivery system has been perceived as one of the most important ways of reducing poverty through poverty alleviation programmes. As part of the South African government's cooperative system, key stakeholders in municipalities ought to adopt an integrated approach to public service delivery. An integrated approach to public service delivery demands that local municipalities, together with relevant stakeholders, integrate processes and services to ensure effective and efficient service delivery. This ultimately will result in an improved standard of living and sustainable livelihood for communities. With regard to public service delivery, local municipalities have the obligation of creating income opportunities people, especially the poor, with the sole aim of contributing towards poverty reduction and the realisation of the expectations of people, as stated in the South African government's White Paper of transforming public service delivery. The political interface in local municipalities greatly affects effective and efficient administration, as well as growth opportunities. Administrators, therefore, have the important function of ensuring that explicit assignments of objectives and administrative functions are wholly separated from the policymaking activities of government. This paper, therefore, suggests that municipalities adopt the merit system and abandon the spoils system that is highly characterised by political favours and political interferences. Political favours and interferences are dominant in local South African government, and they hinder the process of providing services equally.

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Section: Challenges Of Political Influence In Local Governmentmentioning

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Public service delivery in South Africa: The political influence at local government level

Masuku

Jili

2019

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…First of all, as already recognized by Hoffrén and Apajalahti (), research is still fragmented in analyzing to what extent, and how, practical implementation of activities relates to the CSL objectives stated by agribusiness companies. Specifically, questions remain open on the stakeholder engagement and monitoring activities in place to enforce that agribusiness companies actually implement the planned activities (Banerjee, ) and reach the hoped outcomes in relation to CSL. These knowledge gaps justify the focus of this article, which aims to assess—through a review of company reports—the linkages between stated CSL goals, practical implementation strategies, stakeholder engagement approach, and plans for monitoring.…”

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Roles and drivers of agribusiness shaping Climate‐Smart Landscapes: A review

Salvini

Dentoni

Ligtenberg

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Sustainable Development

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The Climate‐Smart Landscape (CSL) approach has recently emerged as an integrated management strategy to address the increasing pressures on agricultural production, ecosystem conservation, rural livelihoods, and climate change mitigation/adaptation. Agribusiness companies play a controversial role in achieving CSL goals. On one hand, their operations cause land and natural resource degradation. On the other hand, they have technical, managerial, and financial resources to invest in more sustainable landscapes. Despite the controversy, empirical evidence on which practices agribusiness companies plan to undertake for sustainable landscape management and their intentions to contribute achieving CSL objectives is scarce and fragmented in the academic literature. To fill in this knowledge gap, this paper describes and reviews agribusiness companies' planned practices for integrated landscape management worldwide. Additionally, this paper evaluates to what extent companies plan to engage in two crucial factors to achieving CSL: stakeholder involvement and activities' monitoring. Results show that despite many agribusiness‐led initiatives have potential in contributing to more sustainable practices, major steps should still be taken to involve stakeholders and monitoring their process and outcomes to actually achieve CSL goals.

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“…Multistakeholder initiatives, standards and guidelines along with the increasing presence of private actors that constitute the governance of resource extraction cannot address authority, capability and representation gaps, which often leads to conflict (Banerjee, 2014). As we have seen earlier structural and discursive power asymmetries between local communities and mining companies mean that the latter group along with their industry associations have greater authority and capability to participate in governance.…”

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Transnational power and translocal governance: The politics of corporate responsibility

2017

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: POLITICS OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AbstractIn this paper we provide a critical analysis of the politics of corporate social responsibility (CSR). We argue that CSR is a strategy that enables multinational corporations (MNCs) to exercise power in the global political economy. Using the global extractive industries as a context we focus on conflicts between communities, the state and MNCs that arise due to the negative social and environmental impacts of mining and extraction. In particular we analyze the role of political CSR and multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) in managing conflicts and argue that these initiatives cannot take into account the needs of vulnerable stakeholders. We argue that power asymmetries between key actors in the political economy can diminish the welfare of communities impacted by extraction. We identify a number of governance challenges that arise as a result of these power asymmetries and develop a translocal governance framework from the perspective of vulnerable stakeholders that can enable a more progressive approach to societal governance of MNCs.

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A critical perspective on corporate social responsibility

Cited by 104 publications

References 23 publications

Public service delivery in South Africa: The political influence at local government level

Public service delivery in South Africa: The political influence at local government level

Roles and drivers of agribusiness shaping Climate‐Smart Landscapes: A review

Transnational power and translocal governance: The politics of corporate responsibility

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