Ann-Christin HaykPotentials and Challenges of Governing Corporate Social Responsibility
A Constructivist Perspective on Transnational Oil Companies Delivering Public Services in Ghana
GEOGRAPHICA – Schriftenreihe Geowissenschaften und Geographie, volume 16
Hamburg 2021, 296 pages
ISBN 978-3-339-12052-6 (print) |ISBN 978-3-339-12053-3 (eBook)
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The UN’s SDGs define healthcare and education as fundamental components of sustainable development. But many governments in the Global South are unable or unwilling to fund and deliver respective services and infrastructure; therefore, the SDGs proclaim the financial involvement of the private sector to overcome provision shortages, too. Such private sector involvement became popular as so-called Corporate Social Responsibility, which is well understood from a corporate perspective. However, knowledge of Corporate Social Responsibility as development tool is rare; especially an in-depth understanding of promising and hindering governance approaches of Corporate Social Responsibility is lacking in recent research and literature.
This study closes this research gap by revealing beneficial and harmful governance approaches that frame healthcare and education projects by four transnational oil corporations in the rural Western Region of Ghana. Discussed against the background of two actor-centred, constructivist theories – the agency theory and the policy mobility debate – the qualitative, empirical findings from Ghana lead to applicable governance recommendations for civil, public, and private sector stakeholders on local, national, and global governance scale. These recommendations shall improve the governance of Corporate Social Responsibility, covering three categories: (1) the formalisation of Corporate Social Responsibility, (2) inclusive communication and collaboration processes, (3) measures to sustain Corporate Social Responsibility projects.
Further, the study broadens the awareness of using the constructivist agency and policy mobility theories in the development studies field. So far, both theories found little application in the field, yet this study underlines their significant meaning for understanding both asymmetries between actors involved in development approaches and possibilities of overcoming these asymmetries.
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