Winners of the U4 Proxy Challenge 2016 We need more imaginative ways of addressing corruption. It is important to generate indicators that ...

High environmental risks and questionable development outcomes characterise the mining industry. A myriad of small companies operate in competitive, high-risk, high-reward settings with weak institutions that fail to enforce regulations. Such conditions are highly conducive to corruption, violence, and environmental destruction.

Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase ...

Norwegian energy companies abroad. Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility. When Norwegian energy companies ...

(You can also read the most important points in this publication in our blog: Steps to limit the endemic corruption around junior ...

How does the Russian use of private military and security companies affect Russian use of force and what are the implications for European and ...

Myndigheter, internasjonale organisasjoner og frivillige organisasjoner ser på selskapers sosiale ansvarlighet (SSA) som et effektivt ...

Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found ...

Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found ...

Private military and security companies increasingly perform services for the UN. The article describes how these companies are used by the ...

Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ ...

A new CMI study "Should I stay or should I go!" will look into this question. When is it in the interest of a corporation to exit a repressive country? When do ethical considerations imply that a company should close down operations in a country?

Corporate community development projects typically do not fail due to incompetence. They fail because promoting development is not their underlying objective. Making money is.

Norwegian oil companies have been involved in Angola since the mid 1990s. CMI has in co-operation with A-IP initiated a new project that will ...

CSR is on the rise in the Arab World, but the initiators find it difficult to root the concept beyond the ranks of state-owned enterprises and crony capitalists. - When CSR projects are initiated in Arab countries, they do not enter an empty void. Many businessmen have pre-existing conceptions of social responsibility, originated in Islam, says CMI-researcher Kjetil Selvik.

Big accounting firms advice multinational companies on tax loopholes and lobby for tax exemptions. At the same time they advice governments in developing countries on tax reforms and engage in government task forces. A new research project delve deeper into the dual role of multinational accounting firms.

When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts ...

When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts ...

Shell companies that cannot be traced back to their owners are one of the most important mechanisms by which corrupt officials transfer illicit ...

What are the responsibility of oil companies in resource rich countries? Do they take these responsibilities? Based on a utilitarian perspective ...