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dominance of CSR has distorted or silenced ongoing knowledge of and protest against the negative externalities of the mining industry in Ghana. The study further assessed stakeholders' perception of CSR as contributing to long term development. The study employed an ethnographic approach

Mar 03, 2017· * Stakeholders' perception of CSR initiatives (stakeholders may belong to any of the following categories - investors, employees, suppliers, consumers etc.) * Impact of CSR initiatives on a company's bottom line * Assessment of effectiveness of C...

A concise account of the growth and development dynamics of the mining industry in Ghana from the colonial period through to the 1970s and 1980s, from colonial and post-independence government control to the era of structural adjustment and after. 2. A critical investigation and evaluation of the major elements of mining sector

LICENTIATE THESIS Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Science Division of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering Corporate Social Responsibility Practice in the Mining Industry Helena Ranängen ISSN: 1402-1757 ISBN 978-91-7439-742-0 (print) ISBN 978-91-7439-743-7 (pdf) Luleå University ofTechnology 2013

ity conference under the theme, Corporate Social Responsibility for Broad Based Em-powerment in the Mining Industry. Corporate Social Responsibility is a business process a company adopts beyond its legal obliga-tions in order to create added economic, so-cial and environmental value to society and

The significant growth in this industry has witnessed an increase in foreign investors in Ghana. Currently there are a lot of players in the gold mining industry: AngloGold Ashanti, Newmont Ghana, Gold Fields Ghana, Chirano Goldmines and Golden Star, who continue to invest in the Ghanaian mining industry.

This thesis explores whether companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs can contribute to the sustainable development of the communities in which they operate. A case study of Newmont Mining's CSR initiatives in Cajamarca, Peru and Oruro, Bolivia is presented to illustrate and to respond to some of the key issues brought to the fore in the debate about the role of CSR in ...

Mar 13, 2014· The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes of mining companies tend to focus on community initiatives as their impact in economic, social and environmental terms is felt greatest at the local level. However, the effectiveness of CSR initiatives in the oil, gas and mining sectors has been increasingly questioned.

The dissertation will look at how a small community can use a metaphysical model of CSR, with assistance from an ethical mining company to their advantage. They will be fulfilling their ancestors' vision of their community. It will develop a conceptual model of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that encompasses all the dimensions of a

(Adimazoya, 2013). Through corporate social responsibility, the mining industry may maintain its exemplary status among African countries (Abugre, 2014). The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships between corporate social responsibility, environmental policies, and community complaints, and

The Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre have just published a working paper by yours truly on 'Corporate social responsibility and political settlements in the mining sector in Ghana, Zambia and Peru'.It's really a first cut at some of the findings from my work in 2014 which I'm currently writing up into some papers and a book.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a long and widely discussed concept in research and among practitioners. Although there is no commonly agreed upon exact definition of CSR a common aspect in most definitions is that CSR entails the voluntary integration of .

In Ghana, both the government and private sector attach much importance to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The country's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a role model for the rest of Africa. Trade unions are well organised and companies are subject to regular inspection. Nevertheless, there is still much progress to

The Role of CSR in Development: A Case Study Involving the Mining Industry in South America By Melissa Whellams A Thesis Submitted to Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of International Development Studies January, 2007, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Multinationals and the Social Perspectives: An Assessment of the Mining Communities in Western Ghana By Akwasi Sarpong This thesis is submitted to Cardiff University in fulfilment of the

'Linkages in Ghana's Gold Mining Industry: Challenging the Enclave Thesis', Robin Bloch and George Owusu 2. 'Chinese Construction Companies in Angola: A Local Linkages Perspective', Lucy Corkin 3. 'Development and Knowledge Intensification in Industries Upstream of Zambia's Copper Mining Sector', Judith Fessehaie 4.

The issues of poverty and inequality, unemployment and the poor living conditions of employees in communities where local and multinational corporations operate have reemerged on the development agenda as a result of growing labour unrest in South Africa, particularly in the mining sector. This article aims to contribute to the conceptualisation and understanding of corporate social ...

output on corporate social responsibility (Scherer, 2013). Between 2004 and 2011, the various mining companies in Ghana have spent an amount of US$ 114,014,117 on CSR (Ghana Chamber of Mines, 2012). According to the Draft National Mining Policy of Ghana (2010) the gold mining

communities in which they operate. 4 A push for CSR in the mining industry is especially prevalent in South Africa where mining has dominated the country's economy for so long. CSR can help rid South Africa's mining industry of its long history of instability and conflict that characterized class and race relations in the country.

with the industry employing close to about a million people.5 The mining sector in South Africa is the highest contributor to the country's economy. Gold mining alone accounts for 27.4% of the mineral revenues and employs 56 percent of the mine labour force.6 Likewise, the mining sector in Ghana is one of the chief contributors to the Ghanaian

Key Words: Corporate Social Responsibility, Africa, Ghana, Mining Industry. 1.0 Introduction Organisations by their very nature have responsibilities (i.e., economic, ethic al, legal and social ...

The thesis explores and explains Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its impact on the sustainable development of people living in a gold mining community, Obuasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Through observations, document analysis and conduction of

Among the public and private sector institutions in Ghana, the mining industry can be seen as one of the oldest industries known to play a central role in the economic development of the country. Yet the mining industry has a problem of health-related illnesses and diseases where

the fulfillment of corporate goals and examines the CSR concept in the Ghanaian mining industry. In Ghana the concept has tended to focus on the external environment to the neglect of the internal environment from where employees operate. Key Words: Corporate Social Responsibility, Africa, Ghana, Mining Industry. 1.0 Introduction
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