Corporate Social Responsibility in Mining:
The effects of external pressures and corporate leadership
Leah Henderson
Joint Winner of the Prize for Best Dissertation
MSc Development Studies (2013)
Abstract
The central question addressed by this paper is: 'How do interactions of external pressures and corporate leadership differentially affect corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy and performance?' This question is addressed using a comparative case study of three Canadian gold mining firms. It is concluded that treating external and internal influences as interacting rather than independent variables can lead to a more comprehensive understanding of what triggers change in corporate social behaviour. It was also determined that an assessment of corporate leadership values was necessary to explain certain changes in CSR performance.
Keywords
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Corporate leadership
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Gold Mining
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Canada
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
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