Oil Companies and Sustainable Community Development in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

The Issue of Reciprocal Responsibility and its Implications for Corporate Citizenship Theory and Practice

Bibliographic Data

ID12308409
AuthorsUwafiokun Idemudia (0000-0001-8108-8398, Department of Social Science York University Toronto Ontario Canada, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume22
Issue3
Pages177-187
Publication date2011-10-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSustainable Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-0802 • E-ISSN: 1099-1719
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sd.538
OpenAlexW1831319083
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

Most of the works that have explored the relationship between Corporate Citizenship (CC) initiatives and their contribution to sustainable community development in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria have been insightful. However, the question of reciprocal responsibility has largely been unaddressed. Similarly, disagreement persists with regard to the impact of oil multinational corporations' (MNC) CC initiative on governmental community development efforts and its implication for sustainable community development. Unfortunately, these gaps have allowed for a number of CC orthodoxies to emerge in the region with practical ramifications for community development. The findings presented here suggest that local communities accept and have a clear sense of what constitutes their reciprocal responsibility. In addition, there was limited evidence to suggest that oil MNCs efforts at community development affected governmental community development initiatives in the region. The paper concludes by considering the implications of its findings for CC theory and practice. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

Business · Citizenship · Community development · Corporate social responsibility · Delta · Environmental ethics · Multinational corporation · Niger delta · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reciprocal · Sociology · Sustainable development · Economic Growth and Development · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub