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The Canadian mining industry knows that there is a right way and a wrong way to operate. Doing it right builds trust among communities and decision-makers, and reduces key business risks – both critical elements to a company's bottom line. The business of mining carries great responsibility to the communities that surround operations and to […]
The purpose of this paper is to explore how and what drives corporate social responsibility (CSR) in host communities of mining companies in developing countries.,To …
In the Canadian context, the first national CSR strategy, Building the Canadian Advantage (2009), which was developed by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), conceptualized CSR as "the voluntary activities undertaken by a company to operate in an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable manner" (p. 2). A few years later, a new definition was proposed …
1. Introduction. The mining sector plays a fundamental role in the global economy by contributing to national economic development and poverty reduction (Pons et al., 2021; Ericsson and Löf, 2019).According to the World Bank (2014), the mining sector in Ethiopia accounted for 19 per cent of the country's exports and has the potential to contribute to the …
This chapter seeks to account for the process by which sustainable development emerged as a norm that informs the policies and practices of mining companies. As recently as 15 years ago, only a small number of major mining companies were reporting on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies, and fewer still had come to grapple with the notion of …
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been found to be important in boosting organizations' sustainability and resilience against crisis. Although employees constitute key internal stakeholders for CSR, limited attention has been paid to them. The purpose of this research is to examine how employee perceptions of CSR activities affect employee …
Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Nigerian Mining Industry: Host Communities' Perspectives - Author: Joseph K. Achua, David A. Utume. ... questionnaires were conducted using a Likert-type scale on the immediate host communities of the company. Chi-squared, Kolmogorov–Smirnov normality test and t-test distribution were employed ...
Download Citation | Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana: Lessons from the mining sector | Ghana is the second largest gold producer in Africa after South Africa, and the third largest African ...
CSR programs in the mining industry are an equitable way to compensate communities for the social and environmental costs associated with mining while at the same time engaging the community ...
In recent years, concerns about the sustainability and social responsibility (CSR) of businesses have become an increasingly high profile issue in many countries and industries, none more so than the mining industry.For mining, one outcome of the CSR agenda is the increasing need for individual companies to justify their existence and document their performance …
Globally, CSR within the mining sector has evolved to become a central part of mine-community relations. Mining companies now accept that the communities affected by their operations need to have basic services like water, health care, electricity and sanitation. Developing a mine presents an opportunity to improve conditions within these ...
of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and this is also the case for the industry in Ghana. The mining industry in Ghana not only considers its CSR as a mechanism of giving back to …
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is intended to keep multinational corporations accountable for their overall impact on people. Often times corporate entities cause unforeseeable consequences when producing the commodity that creates profit for them. Within copper mining operations, several of these inadvertent repercussions impact the
The social responsibility of corporate mining has been challenged by a significant socio-political risk from local communities. These issues reduce shareholder value by increasing costs and decreasing the market perception …
The main reason for the prominence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mining sector is a result of the fact that, in general, the sector negatively affects local communities socially, economically, and environmentally. The sector is criticised by civil society, the Government, and local activists in the host areas.
This article - the first in a pair of articles on corporate social responsibility (CSR) - provides an overview of mining companies' role in sustainable development, from a business perspective and in the South African context. It argues that companies' social and environmental responsibilities are increasing, due to global changes in the way the role of business is …
Powerful and legitimacy-conferring stakeholders are likely to disapprove such mining activity and reconsider their support, which may threaten the survival of the mining company and also create a legitimacy threat for the …
Today, the Nigerian mining sector is valiantly struggling to increase its contribution to the country's GDP, which is currently low at 0.55%, to relive its glory days during the Enugu cool boom between 1909 and the 1950s, and to provide the much-needed boost to the Nigerian economy. ... Corporate Social Responsibility For Broad Based ...
Using a qualitative approach, this study examined the nature of CSR in the mining sector in Zimbabwe to understand the challenges that are faced by mining companies. This paper can be used to ...
This study examines the influence of national culture on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the community activities in Ethiopia's mining sector. We adopted a mixed method with quantitative data collected from 250 middle and top-level managers and qualitative data collected from 25 top-level CSR managers. The findings reveal that national …
Corporate Social Responsibility programs in Zimbabwe will begin to form a major component of the compliance package within the mining sector. Cell: +263 777 370 926 | Email: [email protected] ... CSR within the mining …
csr questionaires in the mining sector " … csr questionaires in the mining sector. Corporate Social Responsibility & Mining – MiningFacts . ... Wages and Salaries - Alberta. Wages and Salaries. Find wage and salary information for occupations in Alberta. Information is based on the 2015 Alberta Wage and Salary Survey.
Onesmo was presenting on a study which ANGONET conducted to assess the situation of CSR in Tanzania's mining industry with a specific focus on Tanzanite which according to her found that there was endemic poor governance (e.g. secrecy in contracts) and that the service levy of 0.3% of annual turnover of mining companies supposed to be paid to ...
The contribution of the mining sector in the SDG achievement is discussed in a report by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, ... Corporate social responsibility in the mining industry: exploring trends in social and environmental disclosure. J. Clean. Prod., 14 ...
Mining activities can be good for the local economy, but they can also have a negative impact, which has created increasing pressure from stakeholders. A constructive and positive engagement between a company …
In our view, CSR is something of a promissory note, but it is difficult for companies to achieve in practice. Despite the best intentions and corporate implementation of social programs and policies, a tailings dam can collapse without warning, precipitating significant social, environmental, business, and political risks and impacts.
According to the selection of articles to include in this study (72), the first article on this topic was found to be published in 1997 by van Dijk and Wilke in Organizational Behavior And Human Decision Processes, a journal of the 1st quartile from 1999 to the present day, with an impact factor of 2.805.The most recent one is by Boiral and Henri (2017) published in Journal …
The main purpose of this chapter is to acknowledge if Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) acts as a Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) in the mining industry. Additionally, this chapter introduces a comparative case study analysis of two mining operations in Peru. The conclusions indicate that CSR is the value innovation of BOS and there is a six-action …
The paper aims identify the main topics of CSR in the mining sector using Twitter. •. The results show the CSR debate is increasingly growing in developing countries. •. The …
In Australia, as elsewhere, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a set of strategies undertaken by governments, public and private companies and organisations to align their operations with an ability to respond to relevant social needs. ... In the mining sector CSR initiatives have tended to occur in the context of some very troubling ...