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Assigned corporate social responsibility in a rentier state: The case of Angola
Book Chapter | Jan 2012
What responsibilities do oil companies in Angola have to improve the situation of the Angolan population? Standard corporate social responsibility (CSR) ...
CSR, Oil, Angola
Gender, regulation, and corporate social responsibility in the extractive sector: The case of Equinor’s social investments in Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2021
Multinational corporations have been criticised for their rhetorical support to - as opposed to substantive engagement with - gender equality in their ...
Tanzania, CSR, Extractive industries, Gender
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Angolan Oil Industry
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005
What are the responsibility of oil companies in resource rich countries? Do they
take these responsibilities? Based on a utilitarian perspective and ...
Oil, Corporate social responsibility, Ethics, Angola, Jel Codes: M14, L71, D63
Business and Social Responsibility in the Arab World: The Zakat vs. CSR models in Syria and Dubai
Journal Article | Jan 2013
The article explores the promotion and reception of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Arab world, taking Syria and Dubai as "most different" ...
global compact, globalization, symbolic capital, Islamic welfare, corporate social responsibility, Middle East, Syria, Dubai, Middle East
What is Left of State Responsibility? Turning State Obligations into State Responsibilities in the Field of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
What is Left of State Responsibility? Turning State Obligations into State Responsibilities in the
Human rights
Human rights and positive corporate duties: The importance of corporate state interaction
Journal Article | Jan 2012
While it is commonly accepted that corporations have negative duties to respect human rights, the question of whether rights also imply positive duties ...
human rights, duties, obligations, responsibility, Ruggie reports, corporate social responsibility (CSR), Angola
Why Firms should not always Maximize Profits
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
Though corporate social responsibility (CSR) is on the agenda of most major corporations, corporate executives still largely support the view that corporations ...
Profit maximization, Business ethics, Corporate social responsibility (CSR), Jel codes: D63, M14
Bringing the State back in. Corporate Social Responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalism in the international energy sector
Journal Article | Oct 2020
This theme section brings the state back into anthropological studies of corporate social responsibility through the lens of Norwegian energy corporations ...
Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Economies – the Case of Sudan
Sudan Working Paper | May 2016
Introduction
Since the 1950s, there has been a growing international awareness of the need for business organizations to commit to a social role that ...
economy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Islam, ethics, philantropy, Sudan
Why firms should not always maximize profits
Journal Article | Nov 2007
Though corporate social responsibility (CSR) is on the agenda of most major corporations, corporate executives still largely support the view that corporations ...
Business ethics, CSR, profit maximization, special duties
Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations
CMI Brief | Jan 2007
The question of corporate responsibility in poor and undemocratic countries, has been addressed by a CMI strategic institute programme (SIP) entitled ...
CSR
Corruption in Revenue Administration: Challenges and Policy Responses
Report in External Series | Jan 2005
The purpose of this issue paper is to identify and discuss major challenges, appropriate responses, and relevant tools for addressing corruption in revenue ...
Corruption, Tax evasion, Tax administration, Customs, International, developing countries
Social responsibility and strategies for internationalisation: The Angolan Case
Project | Jan 2003 - Dec 2004
A recent polling excercise among Norwegian consumers found that only 21% stated profit as the main objective of business activities. Corresponding results ...
Africa: Angola
Business ethics for multinational corporations in developing countries
Project | Jan - Dec 2005
To what extent should multinational corporations doing business in developing countries contribute to improving social conditions? Where should the line ...
Business ethics, corporate social responsibility, multinational corporations, Africa: Angola
Gold over love: Making sense of corporate community development projects
News | 27 Feb 2012
Corporate community development projects typically do not fail due to incompetence. They fail because promoting development is not their underlying objective. Making money is.
Social Funds in Angola - Channels, Amounts and Impact
CMI Working Paper | Dec 2008
Private companies are spending significant resources on social projects in Angola, for the benefit of poor, for general development purposes and for positioning ...
Angola, Social Funds, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Politics
Rethinking access. Key methodological challenges in studying energy companies.
Journal Article | Jan 2018
Understanding the role of large energy corporations in society is a crucial, yet challenging task for the social science of energy. Ethnographic methods ...
Energy, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-sited ethnography, Access, Positionality, Tanzania, Turkey, Norway, Brazil
The Political, Research, Programmatic, and Social Responses to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the 25 Years Since the International Conference on Population and Development
Journal Article | Dec 2019
Among the ground-breaking achievements of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was its call to place adolescent sexual and ...
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health, , International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), , Adolescent pregnancy, , HIV, , Child marriage, , Low- and middle-income countries
Litigating the right to a healthy environment assessing the policy impact of "The Mendoza Case"
CMI Report | Nov 2011
This thesis enquires into the policy consequences of the Mendoza case, a public interest litigation case in Argentina, in which several non-governmental ...
Pollution, River basins, Supreme court, Litigation, Argentina
CSR and Reputation Building in Syria: Contextualizing the 'Business Case'
Book Chapter | Apr 2013
The business case for CSR refers to the idea that companies should adopt socially responsible practices out of self-interest. This article critically ...
Syria