Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism: Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad / edited by Ståle Knudsen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

, University of Bergen, Author.

Contributor:

Knudsen, Ståle, 1963- editor.

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Series:

Dislocations ; Volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Government policy--Norway.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Energy industries--Norway--History.

Energy industries.

Social responsibility of business--Norway.

Social responsibility of business.

Gas industry--Government policy--Norway.

Gas industry.

Petroleum industry and trade--Foreign ownership--Government policy--Norway.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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). 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).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

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

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

Chapter 2 Samfunnsansvar Is Not CSR: Mapping Expectations and Practices of (Corporate) Social Responsibility in Norway

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

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

Part II. Ethnographies of Norwegian Corporations' Engagement with CSR

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

Chapter 6 Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or "What IBAMA Wants": Equinor Brazil's Social Sustainability Policy

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

Chapter 8 Exporting the Norwegian Model through the "Capacity Building" of a Local Union Branch: The Case of Equinor in Tanzania

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

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

Chapter 11 The "Nordic Model" in the Middle East Oil Fields: How Shareholder Value Eclipses Corporate Responsibility

Conclusion Inactive State Ownership and the Nordic Model Recast as "Values"

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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ISBN:

1-80073-987-7

OCLC:

1369146731