Non-governmental organizations and Multinational companies views on Corporate Social Responsibility - Different agendas within the same discourse of ecological modernization.
(2011) HEKM10 20111Human Ecology
- Abstract
- For the last few decades, economic globalization has enabled the expansion of business activities around the world. This has led to important changes in the structure of international society. Non-governmental actors, business enterprises in particular, have gained political influence in the global political agenda. Corporate Social Responsibility appears in this context of economic globalization when companies take on the role of the states and their tasks.
The purpose of this thesis is to understand how various actors such as non-governmental organizations and multinational companies, with very different agendas – political and profit driven – conceptualize and debate corporate social responsibility. This study investigates with the... (More) - For the last few decades, economic globalization has enabled the expansion of business activities around the world. This has led to important changes in the structure of international society. Non-governmental actors, business enterprises in particular, have gained political influence in the global political agenda. Corporate Social Responsibility appears in this context of economic globalization when companies take on the role of the states and their tasks.
The purpose of this thesis is to understand how various actors such as non-governmental organizations and multinational companies, with very different agendas – political and profit driven – conceptualize and debate corporate social responsibility. This study investigates with the help of five questions how Amnesty International and Shell conceptualize and debate corporate social responsibility connected to the examples of oil spills, disposal of waste and gas flaring in the Niger Delta. The results show that the dissimilarities in answers are due to the actors’ different agendas. However since Amnesty International and Shell both are operating within one and the same environmental discourse -ecological modernization – do they also share some basic assumptions and agree upon the same main principles. (Less)
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- author
- Nilsson, Louise LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- A study of how Amnesty International and Shell conceptualize and debate Corporate Social Responsibility connected to oil extractions in the Niger Delta.
- course
- HEKM10 20111
- year
- 2011
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecological Modernization, Amnesty International, Shell, Neoliberalism, Discourse.
- language
- English
- id
- 1961806
- date added to LUP
- 2011-09-07 14:44:18
- date last changed
- 2011-09-07 14:44:18
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abstract = {{For the last few decades, economic globalization has enabled the expansion of business activities around the world. This has led to important changes in the structure of international society. Non-governmental actors, business enterprises in particular, have gained political influence in the global political agenda. Corporate Social Responsibility appears in this context of economic globalization when companies take on the role of the states and their tasks.
The purpose of this thesis is to understand how various actors such as non-governmental organizations and multinational companies, with very different agendas – political and profit driven – conceptualize and debate corporate social responsibility. This study investigates with the help of five questions how Amnesty International and Shell conceptualize and debate corporate social responsibility connected to the examples of oil spills, disposal of waste and gas flaring in the Niger Delta. The results show that the dissimilarities in answers are due to the actors’ different agendas. However since Amnesty International and Shell both are operating within one and the same environmental discourse -ecological modernization – do they also share some basic assumptions and agree upon the same main principles.}},
author = {{Nilsson, Louise}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Non-governmental organizations and Multinational companies views on Corporate Social Responsibility - Different agendas within the same discourse of ecological modernization.}},
year = {{2011}},
}