Host communities’ infrastructural development expectations of multinational mining companies in Ghana’s mining industry

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2023.2232132

S. Nartey, F. Manu

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ABSTRACT This paper, through an ethnographic research approach, examines the infrastructural development expectations that host communities have of multinational mining companies (MNMCs) and how these expectations influence corporate-community relationships in two of Ghana’s mining districts. Using data triangulation from multiple stakeholder perspectives, two MNMCs ranked among the ten best corporate social responsibility firms in the world are studied to explore how and why these expectations impact corporate-community relationships. Theoretically, the paper argues that the Ubuntu philosophy (culture) of the rich sharing their wealth with the underprivileged in society influences community expectations. These expectations, in turn, affect social legitimacy of companies. It therefore emphasizes the need to consider the informal context when using institutional and stakeholder theory to examine corporate social responsibility (CSR) in African countries. By this, the paper contributes to the reorientation of stakeholder theory from a firm-centric to community-centric focus. Managerially, the paper suggests that multinational companies coming to Africa’s mining communities need to understand this cultural norm and set aside enough resources to provide infrastructure projects in host communities to enhance corporate-community relations.

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东道国社区对加纳矿业跨国公司基础设施发展的期望

本文通过民族志研究方法，研究了东道国社区对跨国矿业公司(mnmc)的基础设施发展期望，以及这些期望如何影响加纳两个矿区的企业-社区关系。本研究采用多利益相关者视角的数据三角法，对全球十大企业社会责任企业中的两家跨国公司进行了研究，以探讨这些期望如何以及为什么会影响企业与社区的关系。从理论上讲，本文认为富人与社会弱势群体分享财富的乌班图哲学(文化)影响了社区的期望。这些期望反过来又影响了企业的社会合法性。因此，它强调在使用机构和利益相关者理论来检查非洲国家的企业社会责任(CSR)时，需要考虑非正式背景。通过这一点，本文有助于将利益相关者理论从以企业为中心重新定位为以社区为中心。在管理方面，该论文建议，来到非洲矿业社区的跨国公司需要了解这种文化规范，并留出足够的资源，在东道国社区提供基础设施项目，以加强企业与社区的关系。

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Africa Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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期刊介绍： The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.