Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises in the Oil and Mining Industry

"With my PhD research I look at the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the oil and mining industry operating in developing countries. One important aspect of CSR in that industry are corporate-community relations and especially the relation to communities of indigenous peoples that are often affected most by resource development. Multinationals from the industrialised world face a lot of pressures from host country governments and civil society to contribute to poverty alleviation and sustainable community development. Although far from perfect, those firms now mostly do have programmes in place to work together with their local stakeholders. However, increasingly Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian oil and mining MNEs internationalise into developing countries. Those firms might have different standards of operation and are harder to influence using traditional pressure from civil society groups. I examine if those MNEs still do adopt some kind of community relation strategy, what this strategy looks like, and what the drivers are for its implementation." - Written by Romy Kraemer

Since September 2006 Romy is doing her PhD on resource-seeking multinationals and their impact on local indigenous communities. The aim of the project is to specify how multinational firms are the reason for part of the problems indigenous communities face, but also wants to explore opportunities for firm contributions to solutions of the issue.

Research Interests 

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Resource-seeking Multinationals
• Indigenous Communities
• Reistance to Change

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