Jedrzej George Frynas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1086572 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jedrzej George Frynas |
| PRENOMES | Jedrzej George |
| SOBRENOME | Frynas |
| ASSINATURA | FRYNAS J G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Middlesex University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 227 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance
Language affects almost every aspect of management in multinational enterprises (MNEs) but little is known about the impact of language on environmental performance. Our study investigates how language diversity affects the environmental performance of MNEs worldwide. We show that the grammatical structure of a language – specifically the first pronoun drop – is an important factor explaining the environmental performance of firms. Our analysis o…
The presource curse in Africa
The resource curse without natural resources
Many resource-rich countries have experienced a range of negative economic and political effects from natural resource extraction, often lumped together as the 'resource curse'. This article investigates to what extent expectations of future natural resource booms in So Tom e Prncipe and Madagascar led to 'resource curse' effects, even though these countries did not experience the expected booms. It finds that both countries experienced resource …
Corporate social responsibility
Based on a survey and content analysis of 462 peer‐reviewed academic articles over the period 1990–2014, this article reviews theories related to the external drivers of corporate social responsibility (CSR) (such as stakeholder theory and resource‐dependence theory) and the internal drivers of CSR (such as resource‐based view [RBV] and agency theory) that have been utilized to explain CSR. The article discusses the main tenets of the principal t…
A Review of the Nonmarket Strategy Literature
Two parallel strands of nonmarket strategy research have emerged largely in isolation. One strand examines strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the other examines corporate political activity (CPA), even though there is an overlap between the social and political aspects of corporate strategies. In this article, we review and synthesize strategic CSR and CPA research published in top-tier and specialized academic journals between …
Global Strategic Management
Political Corporate Social Responsibility
There has been rising interest in political corporate social responsibility (political CSR), defined as activities where CSR has an intended or unintended political impact, or where intended or unintended political impacts on CSR exist. Based on a survey and content analysis of 146 peer‐reviewed academic articles from 18 journals over the 14‐year period 2000–2013, this paper systematically reviews the existing applications of general theories (su…
Global Strategic Management
Global Strategic Management is made up of five parts. The first part introduces the topic. The second part looks at global strategic analysis and includes examinations of the external macro environment, the industry environment, and the internal environment. Part III is about global strategic development and looks at various levels such as the subsidiary-level and headquarters-level in terms of strategy. Part IV is concerned with global strategic…
Global management of change
This chapter deals with the management of change. Multinational firms must be prepared to undertake both incremental change and transformational change. Change management is the process by which a multinational firm obtains its current and future strategy. People facing change often go through five phases: denial, defence, discarding, adaptation, and internalizing. The appropriate style of change management is dependent on four factors: the magni…
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Regulation? Evidence on Oil Spill Prevention
Major oil spills normally occur from oil pipelines and oil tankers that are under operational control of companies, namely, oil companies and tanker owners. There are two generic responses for changing the behavior of companies with regard to oil spill prevention: mandatory government regulation or voluntary initiatives often pursued under the banner of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Here we investigate to what extent voluntary CSR initia…
Beyond csr ? Business, poverty and social justice
How far can Corporate Social Responsibility (csr) initiatives help to address poverty, social exclusion and other development challenges? What is the balance of responsibilities between state, market and civil society in addressing these problems and meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals (mdgs)? What new tools, strategies and methodologies are required to harness the positive potential contribution of business to development and deter corpo…
A New Scramble for African Oil? Historical, Political, and Business Perspectives
Journal Article A New Scramble for African Oil? Historical, Political, and Business Perspectives Get access Jedrzej George Frynas, Jedrzej George Frynas Jedrzej George Frynas ([email protected]) is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Management at the Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Manuel Paulo Manuel Paulo Manuel …
The institutional basis of economic failure
There has been a glaring lack of research on institutional configurations, which impede rather than promote economic success. Building on Richard Whitley's business systems theory and based on the experience of East Africa, this paper attempts to fill a gap in the literature by identifying a distinct variety of capitalism, the segmented business system. Segmented business systems are characterized by rigid internal divisions between different are…
Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
The false developmental promise of Corporate Social Responsibility
Journal Article The false developmental promise of Corporate Social Responsibility: evidence from multinational oil companies Get access JEDRZEJ GEORGE FRYNAS JEDRZEJ GEORGE FRYNAS 1Professor in Corporate Responsibility and Strategic Management at the University of Middlesex Business School. He is the author of Oil in Nigeria (2000), co-editor (with Scott Pegg) of Transnational corporations and human rights (2003) and co-author (with Kamel Mellah…
The oil boom in Equatorial Guinea
In less than a decade, Equatorial Guinea has transformed itself from an African backwater into one of the world’s fastest growing economies and a sought-after political partner in the Gulf of Guinea. The sole reason for this transformation has been the discovery of oil and gas. This article outlines the rise of Equatorial Guinea as one of Africa’s leading oilproducing countries and investigates the political, economic and social effects of becomi…
Social and environmental litigation against transnational firms in Africa
As elsewhere in the world, Africa has experienced a rise in litigation against transnational corporations for adverse environmental and social impact. Cape plc and RTZ have been sued in British courts for environmental damage and for breach of employment rights in Africa. Companies which sold products to South Africa's former apartheid regime, such as Fujitsu and IBM, are now being sued in US courts. Shell and Chevron are being sued in US courts …
Royal Dutch/Shell
With the onset of globalisation and deregulation, the influence of national governments is diminishing and transnational corporations are becoming increasingly open to public scrutiny. Hardly any other large corporation has been more scrutinised than Royal Dutch/Shell, the transnational oil company, which came under intense public pressure in the mid 1990s. Two events galvanised public opinion in 1995: the company’s controversial decision to dump…
Business and politics in São Tomé e Príncipe
Negocios politicos em Sao Tome e Principe : da monocultura do cacau ao Estado petrolifero. ; Em diversos momentos historicos, o arquipelago de Sao Tome e Principe (STP) teve uma importância maior no sistema economico global. No seculo XVI as ilhas eram o maior produtor mundial de acucar, e no seculo XIX e inicios do seculo XX, foram um dos principais fornecedores de cacau e de cafe. A producao de cacau tornou-se em seguida bastante insignificante…
Problems of Access to Courts in Nigeria
Access to courts constitutes a key test of the quality of a legal system. However, there is a dearth of empirical studies on access problems in developing countries. This article identifies the main problems of access to courts in Nigeria on the basis of a survey of 154 Nigerian legal practitioners, an analysis of Nigerian court cases and two field trips to Nigeria. It focuses on one specific type of litigation: litigation related to the Nigerian…
Oil & war in Angola
This article investigates the impact of oil on the war in Angola. It demonstrates that mineral wealth has not only financed Angola's war but has also intimately shaped the contours of the conflict. MPLA's access to oil revenues and UNITA's to diamonds can help to explain the duration and character of the conflict, and, to some extent, even the timing of military operations. The logic of the ‘resource curse’ has had a major impact on the make‐up o…
Corporate and state responses to anti‐oil protests in the Niger Delta
Conflicts between oil companies and village communities in the Niger Delta have lasted for several decades, but during the 1990s they escalated further and received international media coverage. Much of it focused on the anti‐Shell protests by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) which led to Shell's withdrawal from the Ogoni area in 1993. Notwithstanding the political changes following General Abacha's death in June 1998, th…
Maintaining corporate dominance after decolonization
Nigeria's oil industry came into being during colonial rule. Preferential treatment by British colonial authorities had given a British oil company — Shell — a virtual monopoly over oil exploration in the country and Shell has remained the dominant oil company in Nigeria. While there is substantial evidence to suggest that Shell‐BP established its dominant position in Nigeria with the support of British colonial officials, it was by no means clea…
Author's reply
(2000). Author's reply: Shell in Nigeria: A further contribution. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 157-164
Legal Change in Africa
There has been a significant rise in litigation between oil companies and those affected by oil operations in Nigerian courts. In the period 1981–86, 24 compensation claims against Shell went to court in Nigeria. In early 1998, Shell was reportedly involved in over 500 pending court cases in Nigeria, out of which 70 per cent, or roughly 350 cases, dealt with oil spills, the other 30 per cent, or 150 cases, dealt mostly with other types of damage …
The false developmental promise of Corporate Social Responsibility
Journal Article The false developmental promise of Corporate Social Responsibility: evidence from multinational oil companies Get access JEDRZEJ GEORGE FRYNAS JEDRZEJ GEORGE FRYNAS 1Professor in Corporate Responsibility and Strategic Management at the University of Middlesex Business School. He is the author of Oil in Nigeria (2000), co-editor (with Scott Pegg) of Transnational corporations and human rights (2003) and co-author (with Kamel Mellah…
Political instability and business
Business managers name Africa's political instability as a key obstacle to economic development, but many companies continue to invest in Africa. The article explains this apparent contradiction by looking at the case of Shell in Nigeria. Nigeria experiences serious political instability, yet Shell is expanding its investment in the country. This article deals with sources of firm-specific political instability that have affected Shell in Nigeria…
Beyond csr ? Business, poverty and social justice
How far can Corporate Social Responsibility (csr) initiatives help to address poverty, social exclusion and other development challenges? What is the balance of responsibilities between state, market and civil society in addressing these problems and meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals (mdgs)? What new tools, strategies and methodologies are required to harness the positive potential contribution of business to development and deter corpo…
A New Scramble for African Oil? Historical, Political, and Business Perspectives
Journal Article A New Scramble for African Oil? Historical, Political, and Business Perspectives Get access Jedrzej George Frynas, Jedrzej George Frynas Jedrzej George Frynas ([email protected]) is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Management at the Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Manuel Paulo Manuel Paulo Manuel …
The institutional basis of economic failure
There has been a glaring lack of research on institutional configurations, which impede rather than promote economic success. Building on Richard Whitley's business systems theory and based on the experience of East Africa, this paper attempts to fill a gap in the literature by identifying a distinct variety of capitalism, the segmented business system. Segmented business systems are characterized by rigid internal divisions between different are…
Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
Corporate and state responses to anti‐oil protests in the Niger Delta
Conflicts between oil companies and village communities in the Niger Delta have lasted for several decades, but during the 1990s they escalated further and received international media coverage. Much of it focused on the anti‐Shell protests by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) which led to Shell's withdrawal from the Ogoni area in 1993. Notwithstanding the political changes following General Abacha's death in June 1998, th…
Oil & war in Angola
This article investigates the impact of oil on the war in Angola. It demonstrates that mineral wealth has not only financed Angola's war but has also intimately shaped the contours of the conflict. MPLA's access to oil revenues and UNITA's to diamonds can help to explain the duration and character of the conflict, and, to some extent, even the timing of military operations. The logic of the ‘resource curse’ has had a major impact on the make‐up o…
Business and politics in São Tomé e Príncipe
Negocios politicos em Sao Tome e Principe : da monocultura do cacau ao Estado petrolifero. ; Em diversos momentos historicos, o arquipelago de Sao Tome e Principe (STP) teve uma importância maior no sistema economico global. No seculo XVI as ilhas eram o maior produtor mundial de acucar, e no seculo XIX e inicios do seculo XX, foram um dos principais fornecedores de cacau e de cafe. A producao de cacau tornou-se em seguida bastante insignificante…
The presource curse in Africa
The oil boom in Equatorial Guinea
In less than a decade, Equatorial Guinea has transformed itself from an African backwater into one of the world’s fastest growing economies and a sought-after political partner in the Gulf of Guinea. The sole reason for this transformation has been the discovery of oil and gas. This article outlines the rise of Equatorial Guinea as one of Africa’s leading oilproducing countries and investigates the political, economic and social effects of becomi…
Maintaining corporate dominance after decolonization
Nigeria's oil industry came into being during colonial rule. Preferential treatment by British colonial authorities had given a British oil company — Shell — a virtual monopoly over oil exploration in the country and Shell has remained the dominant oil company in Nigeria. While there is substantial evidence to suggest that Shell‐BP established its dominant position in Nigeria with the support of British colonial officials, it was by no means clea…
Author's reply
(2000). Author's reply: Shell in Nigeria: A further contribution. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 157-164
Royal Dutch/Shell
With the onset of globalisation and deregulation, the influence of national governments is diminishing and transnational corporations are becoming increasingly open to public scrutiny. Hardly any other large corporation has been more scrutinised than Royal Dutch/Shell, the transnational oil company, which came under intense public pressure in the mid 1990s. Two events galvanised public opinion in 1995: the company’s controversial decision to dump…
Problems of Access to Courts in Nigeria
Access to courts constitutes a key test of the quality of a legal system. However, there is a dearth of empirical studies on access problems in developing countries. This article identifies the main problems of access to courts in Nigeria on the basis of a survey of 154 Nigerian legal practitioners, an analysis of Nigerian court cases and two field trips to Nigeria. It focuses on one specific type of litigation: litigation related to the Nigerian…
The resource curse without natural resources
Many resource-rich countries have experienced a range of negative economic and political effects from natural resource extraction, often lumped together as the 'resource curse'. This article investigates to what extent expectations of future natural resource booms in So Tom e Prncipe and Madagascar led to 'resource curse' effects, even though these countries did not experience the expected booms. It finds that both countries experienced resource …
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Regulation? Evidence on Oil Spill Prevention
Major oil spills normally occur from oil pipelines and oil tankers that are under operational control of companies, namely, oil companies and tanker owners. There are two generic responses for changing the behavior of companies with regard to oil spill prevention: mandatory government regulation or voluntary initiatives often pursued under the banner of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Here we investigate to what extent voluntary CSR initia…
Social and environmental litigation against transnational firms in Africa
As elsewhere in the world, Africa has experienced a rise in litigation against transnational corporations for adverse environmental and social impact. Cape plc and RTZ have been sued in British courts for environmental damage and for breach of employment rights in Africa. Companies which sold products to South Africa's former apartheid regime, such as Fujitsu and IBM, are now being sued in US courts. Shell and Chevron are being sued in US courts …
Political instability and business
Business managers name Africa's political instability as a key obstacle to economic development, but many companies continue to invest in Africa. The article explains this apparent contradiction by looking at the case of Shell in Nigeria. Nigeria experiences serious political instability, yet Shell is expanding its investment in the country. This article deals with sources of firm-specific political instability that have affected Shell in Nigeria…
Legal Change in Africa
There has been a significant rise in litigation between oil companies and those affected by oil operations in Nigerian courts. In the period 1981–86, 24 compensation claims against Shell went to court in Nigeria. In early 1998, Shell was reportedly involved in over 500 pending court cases in Nigeria, out of which 70 per cent, or roughly 350 cases, dealt with oil spills, the other 30 per cent, or 150 cases, dealt mostly with other types of damage …
Maintaining corporate dominance after decolonization
Nigeria's oil industry came into being during colonial rule. Preferential treatment by British colonial authorities had given a British oil company — Shell — a virtual monopoly over oil exploration in the country and Shell has remained the dominant oil company in Nigeria. While there is substantial evidence to suggest that Shell‐BP established its dominant position in Nigeria with the support of British colonial officials, it was by no means clea…
Author's reply
(2000). Author's reply: Shell in Nigeria: A further contribution. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 157-164
Problems of Access to Courts in Nigeria
Access to courts constitutes a key test of the quality of a legal system. However, there is a dearth of empirical studies on access problems in developing countries. This article identifies the main problems of access to courts in Nigeria on the basis of a survey of 154 Nigerian legal practitioners, an analysis of Nigerian court cases and two field trips to Nigeria. It focuses on one specific type of litigation: litigation related to the Nigerian…
Oil & war in Angola
This article investigates the impact of oil on the war in Angola. It demonstrates that mineral wealth has not only financed Angola's war but has also intimately shaped the contours of the conflict. MPLA's access to oil revenues and UNITA's to diamonds can help to explain the duration and character of the conflict, and, to some extent, even the timing of military operations. The logic of the ‘resource curse’ has had a major impact on the make‐up o…
Corporate and state responses to anti‐oil protests in the Niger Delta
Conflicts between oil companies and village communities in the Niger Delta have lasted for several decades, but during the 1990s they escalated further and received international media coverage. Much of it focused on the anti‐Shell protests by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) which led to Shell's withdrawal from the Ogoni area in 1993. Notwithstanding the political changes following General Abacha's death in June 1998, th…
Royal Dutch/Shell
With the onset of globalisation and deregulation, the influence of national governments is diminishing and transnational corporations are becoming increasingly open to public scrutiny. Hardly any other large corporation has been more scrutinised than Royal Dutch/Shell, the transnational oil company, which came under intense public pressure in the mid 1990s. Two events galvanised public opinion in 1995: the company’s controversial decision to dump…
Business and politics in São Tomé e Príncipe
Negocios politicos em Sao Tome e Principe : da monocultura do cacau ao Estado petrolifero. ; Em diversos momentos historicos, o arquipelago de Sao Tome e Principe (STP) teve uma importância maior no sistema economico global. No seculo XVI as ilhas eram o maior produtor mundial de acucar, e no seculo XIX e inicios do seculo XX, foram um dos principais fornecedores de cacau e de cafe. A producao de cacau tornou-se em seguida bastante insignificante…
The oil boom in Equatorial Guinea
In less than a decade, Equatorial Guinea has transformed itself from an African backwater into one of the world’s fastest growing economies and a sought-after political partner in the Gulf of Guinea. The sole reason for this transformation has been the discovery of oil and gas. This article outlines the rise of Equatorial Guinea as one of Africa’s leading oilproducing countries and investigates the political, economic and social effects of becomi…
Social and environmental litigation against transnational firms in Africa
As elsewhere in the world, Africa has experienced a rise in litigation against transnational corporations for adverse environmental and social impact. Cape plc and RTZ have been sued in British courts for environmental damage and for breach of employment rights in Africa. Companies which sold products to South Africa's former apartheid regime, such as Fujitsu and IBM, are now being sued in US courts. Shell and Chevron are being sued in US courts …
Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
The false developmental promise of Corporate Social Responsibility
Journal Article The false developmental promise of Corporate Social Responsibility: evidence from multinational oil companies Get access JEDRZEJ GEORGE FRYNAS JEDRZEJ GEORGE FRYNAS 1Professor in Corporate Responsibility and Strategic Management at the University of Middlesex Business School. He is the author of Oil in Nigeria (2000), co-editor (with Scott Pegg) of Transnational corporations and human rights (2003) and co-author (with Kamel Mellah…
The institutional basis of economic failure
There has been a glaring lack of research on institutional configurations, which impede rather than promote economic success. Building on Richard Whitley's business systems theory and based on the experience of East Africa, this paper attempts to fill a gap in the literature by identifying a distinct variety of capitalism, the segmented business system. Segmented business systems are characterized by rigid internal divisions between different are…
Beyond csr ? Business, poverty and social justice
How far can Corporate Social Responsibility (csr) initiatives help to address poverty, social exclusion and other development challenges? What is the balance of responsibilities between state, market and civil society in addressing these problems and meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals (mdgs)? What new tools, strategies and methodologies are required to harness the positive potential contribution of business to development and deter corpo…
A New Scramble for African Oil? Historical, Political, and Business Perspectives
Journal Article A New Scramble for African Oil? Historical, Political, and Business Perspectives Get access Jedrzej George Frynas, Jedrzej George Frynas Jedrzej George Frynas ([email protected]) is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Management at the Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Manuel Paulo Manuel Paulo Manuel …
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Regulation? Evidence on Oil Spill Prevention
Major oil spills normally occur from oil pipelines and oil tankers that are under operational control of companies, namely, oil companies and tanker owners. There are two generic responses for changing the behavior of companies with regard to oil spill prevention: mandatory government regulation or voluntary initiatives often pursued under the banner of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Here we investigate to what extent voluntary CSR initia…
Global Strategic Management
Global Strategic Management is made up of five parts. The first part introduces the topic. The second part looks at global strategic analysis and includes examinations of the external macro environment, the industry environment, and the internal environment. Part III is about global strategic development and looks at various levels such as the subsidiary-level and headquarters-level in terms of strategy. Part IV is concerned with global strategic…
Global management of change
This chapter deals with the management of change. Multinational firms must be prepared to undertake both incremental change and transformational change. Change management is the process by which a multinational firm obtains its current and future strategy. People facing change often go through five phases: denial, defence, discarding, adaptation, and internalizing. The appropriate style of change management is dependent on four factors: the magni…
Global Strategic Management
Political Corporate Social Responsibility
There has been rising interest in political corporate social responsibility (political CSR), defined as activities where CSR has an intended or unintended political impact, or where intended or unintended political impacts on CSR exist. Based on a survey and content analysis of 146 peer‐reviewed academic articles from 18 journals over the 14‐year period 2000–2013, this paper systematically reviews the existing applications of general theories (su…
Corporate social responsibility
Based on a survey and content analysis of 462 peer‐reviewed academic articles over the period 1990–2014, this article reviews theories related to the external drivers of corporate social responsibility (CSR) (such as stakeholder theory and resource‐dependence theory) and the internal drivers of CSR (such as resource‐based view [RBV] and agency theory) that have been utilized to explain CSR. The article discusses the main tenets of the principal t…
A Review of the Nonmarket Strategy Literature
Two parallel strands of nonmarket strategy research have emerged largely in isolation. One strand examines strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the other examines corporate political activity (CPA), even though there is an overlap between the social and political aspects of corporate strategies. In this article, we review and synthesize strategic CSR and CPA research published in top-tier and specialized academic journals between …
The resource curse without natural resources
Many resource-rich countries have experienced a range of negative economic and political effects from natural resource extraction, often lumped together as the 'resource curse'. This article investigates to what extent expectations of future natural resource booms in So Tom e Prncipe and Madagascar led to 'resource curse' effects, even though these countries did not experience the expected booms. It finds that both countries experienced resource …
The presource curse in Africa
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