2005
DOI: 10.9774/gleaf.4700.2005.su.00010
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Local Governance as a Complex System

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“…Fourie and Eloff (2005) point to the collective nature of much of this activity; it has not just been activity by individual firms, but a generalized business commitment to pursue goals of democracy, peace and sustainable development. It has even been argued (Egels 2005;Hamann et al 2005b) that in some African contexts multinational firms have wanted to shape their own political and so-called stakeholder environment, in order to have a responsible local context with which to deal.…”
Section: Corporate Citizenshipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Fourie and Eloff (2005) point to the collective nature of much of this activity; it has not just been activity by individual firms, but a generalized business commitment to pursue goals of democracy, peace and sustainable development. It has even been argued (Egels 2005;Hamann et al 2005b) that in some African contexts multinational firms have wanted to shape their own political and so-called stakeholder environment, in order to have a responsible local context with which to deal.…”
Section: Corporate Citizenshipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The challenges which mining multinationals face in gaining legitimacy and achieving positive impacts on local communities in often unstable regional or national contexts are well documented (Banerjee, 2001; Eweje, 2006; Frynas, 2005; Hamann et al, 2005). The selected firm (anonymised as MIN) was a mining company operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world (UNDP, 2013).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…44 Pegg also notes that the so-called CSR leaders of the world simultaneously lobby against proposed codifications of what they currently claim to do; in responding to the World Bank's Extractive Industries Review, CSR leaders like BP, Shell and Statoil signed a letter rejecting the proposed prohibition on the forced resettlement of local communities in oil-producing areas. 45 Recognizing that CSR activities in the developing world has and can lead to improvements for communities, but are largely dictated on corporate terms and in line with corporate goals, it is of little surprise that the rhetoric often fails to match reality, 46 where people living around these vast riches do not share in the benefits that come and are often worse off with these projects than without them. 47…”
Section: B Csr: Shortcomings Of the Business Community's Responsementioning
confidence: 98%