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This study investigated the relationship between the participation of community members (beneficiaries of projects) and the sustainability of community development projects using two of Grootegeluk Coal Mine''s community development projects as case studies.
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ... Conscious management of the impact translates into lower costs, improved external relations and better managed risks. ... DTTL''s Chairman is a Member of the Chairmen''s Community, ...
benefits. Community Development Agreements (CDA) between companies and impacted communities, for example, have played a valuable role in meeting the expectations and needs of a broad range of stakeholders. They are increasingly considered a key instrument for defining the relationship and obligations of mining companies with impacted commu
Mining and community engagement in Peru: communities telling their stories to inform future practice . There is a need for improved community engagement processes in many parts of the world. This report presents an indepth contextual framework for an understanding of the community experience of mining as a historical process.
Obtaining and maintaining community support, or a company''s social licence to operate, is a key factorrm viability of any operation. Poor community relations, in contrast, can promote distrust and feelings of injustice, particularly when exacerbated by mining activities that are insensitive to .
between mining companies and local communities. A consequence is the potential for mining companies to wield too much power in the local cultures may have difficulty coping with vast industrial operations and the influx of growing appreciation of the intrinsic value of .
Corporate social responsibility may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve spending finances that do not directly benefit the company but rather advocate positive social and environmental change. The soul in the next economy forum presentation made it evident that achieving ...
• CSR is the overall relationship between the corporation and its stakeholders, which include customers, employees, communities, owners/investors, gov ernment, suppliers and competitors.
Aug 31, 2004· Ralph Hamann and Paul Kapelus argue that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)related narratives and practices can be fruitfully assessed with reference to accountability and fairness as key criteria. Brief case studies of mining in South Africa and Zambia suggest that there are still important gaps between mining companies'' CSR activities, on the one hand, and accountability and fairness ...
• The lack of adequate information on the mining activity, • Confusion between various government departments The Mining Stage Once a mine begins its operations there is no or very little community engagement, accept during corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes which companies often undertake as good public relations activities.
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Ghanaian Mining Industry Frank Boateng ... Corporate Social Responsibility in the Ghanaian Mining Industry by Frank Boateng MPhil, Kwame Nkrum University of Science and Technology, 2015 ... relationship between community complaints and fiduciary responsibility, meaning that
Lin et al. (2015) study the relationship between corporate governance and community participation in Australian mining companies between 2005 and 2013. They confirm that corporate governance ...
Relationship between Environmental Responsibility and ... community and society at large to improve their quality of life." ... corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental responsibility and sustainability; 2) To study the ...
The field of Corporate Social Responsibility can be divided into several parts; definitions of CSR, analysis of CSR approaches, CSR in supply chain, CSR in developed countries as well as in developing ones, the link between CSR and globalization and last, but not least the global understanding of CSR. The history of CSR
The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes of mining companies tend to focus on community initiatives as their impact in economic, social and .
Oct 23, 2014· Danna Pfal, VP of stakeholder engagement at Future 500, said, "Stakeholder engagement has become very popular over this last year. I see it as CSR where you cannot have a CSR/Sustainability program without engaging stakeholders on the ground. I really think this is the merging of what it means to be a sustainable company today.
There are competing arguments proposed based on different theories and hypotheses on the relationship between corporate governance and community engagement. On one hand, based on the agency theory (Jensen and Meckling, 1976), corporate governance is designed to safeguard the principal׳s interest from the agent׳s misconduct. Therefore, a sound ...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a type of international private business selfregulation that aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature or by engage in or support volunteering or ethicallyoriented practices.
The aspirational CSR goals of the company are to give back more than it takes from the community and to clean more than it pollutes in its manufacturing operations—a vision made possible only by ...
The relationship between community participation and the sustainability of CSR Projects: The case of the Grootegeluk Coal Mine in Lephalale Local Municipality ... development aspect. In this regard, the mining industry''s approach is no different. CSR initiatives of mining companies have focused primarily on community development. This ...
between CSR and ROE. In contrast, a study conducted by Aupperle, Carroll, and Hatfield (1985) in an attempt to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility and profitability found no significant relationship between the two. Furthermore, the study also suggested that it is
Jun 12, 2017· While traditional CSR can be a reactive strategy when companies track only lagging indicators to measure effectiveness, CSI represents a significant paradigm shift by being leverages existing resources to drive social and environmental change, and reinvents the relationship between the corporate and noncorporate worlds by being present and engaging in both.
Community relations and development (CRD) functions provide mining operations with a mechanism for relationship building and benefit sharing. • We take CRD practice as a proxy for a company''s commitment to sustainable development (SD) and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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