Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad

Buch | Hardcover

354 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-873-7 (ISBN)

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Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad in places such as China, Brazil, and Turkey. With significant state ownership and embeddedness in the Nordic societal model, Norwegian capitalism is often represented as “benign” or ethical. By tracing CSR policy and practice—from headquarters to operations—this volume critically explores the workings of Norwegian corporate capitalism and its engagement with key issues of responsibility, accountability, and sustainability.

Ståle Knudsen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. Knudsen has, since the early 1990s, done ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey, and his publications include the monograph, Fisheries in Modernizing Turkey (Berghahn 2009).

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Preface

Introduction: Bringing the State Back in: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of Norwegian State Capitalism in the International Energy and Extraction Industries

Ståle Knudsen, Dinah Rajak, Siri Lange, and Isabelle Hugøy

Part I: Setting the Scene. Introduction and Framing of CSR in the Norwegian Context.

Chapter 1. Rethinking Access: Key Methodological Challenges in Studying Energy Companies

Ingrid Birce Müftüoğlu, Ståle Knudsen, Ragnhild Freng Dale, Oda Eiken, Dinah Rajak, and Siri Lange

Chapter 2. Samfunnsansvar is not CSR: Mapping Expectations and Practices of (Corporate) Social Responsibility in Norway

Oda Eiken Maraire and Isabelle Hugøy

Chapter 3. Dynamics of Localized Social Responsibility: A Case from Agder, Norway

Eldar Bråten

Chapter 4. Model of a Model: Norsk Hydro at Home and Abroad

Ståle Knudsen

Part II: Ethnographies of Norwegian Corporations’ Engagement with CSR

Chapter 5. Traveling, Translation, Transformation: On Social Responsibility and the Nordic Model in China

Emil A. Røyrvik

Chapter 6. Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or “What IBAMA Wants”: Equinor Brazil’s Social Sustainability Policy

Iselin Åsedotter Strønen

Chapter 7. Gender, Regulation, and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Equinor’s Social Investments in Tanzania

Siri Langeand Victoria Wyndham

Chapter 8. Exporting the Norwegian Model Through the “Capacity Building” of a Local Union Branch: The Case of Equinor in Tanzania

Siri Lange

Chapter 9. Staging Mutual Dependencies: Energy Infrastructure and CSR in a Norwegian Petroleum Town

Ragnhild Freng Dale

Chapter 10. Standardizing Responsibility Through the Stakeholder Figure: Norwegian Hydropower in Turkey

Ståle Knudsen, Ingrid Birce Müftüoğlu, and Isabelle Hugøy

Chapter 11. The “Nordic model” in the Middle East Oil Fields: How Shareholder Value Eclipses Corporate Responsibility

Synnøve Bendixsen

Conclusion: Inactive State Ownership and the Nordic Model Recast as “Values”

Ståle Knudsen

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Dislocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-80073-873-0 / 1800738730
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-873-7 / 9781800738737
Zustand	Neuware