Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding the Mining Stakeholder with a Case Study

Sisi Que, Liang Wang, Kwame Awuah-Offei, Wei Yang and Hui Jiang
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Sisi Que: Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Waterway Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
Liang Wang: State Key Lab of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing 404000, China
Kwame Awuah-Offei: Department of Mining & Nuclear Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA
Wei Yang: Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Waterway Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
Hui Jiang: Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Waterway Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-12

Abstract: The social responsibility of corporate mining has been challenged by a significant socio-political risk from local communities. These issues reduce shareholder value by increasing costs and decreasing the market perception of corporate social responsibility. Community engagement is the process of understanding the behavior and interests of a group of targeted mining communities through surveys and data analysis, with the purpose of incorporating mining community acceptance into the mining sustainability. While mining organizations have discussed community engagement to varying degrees, there are three main shortcomings in current studies, as concluded in the authors’ previous research. This paper presents a framework to apply discrete choice theory to improve mining community engagement and corporate mining social responsibility. In addition, this paper establishes the main technical challenges to implement the developed framework, and presents methods to overcome the challenges for future research with a case study. The contribution of this research will transform mine sustainability in a fundamental way by facilitating the incorporation of effective community engagement. This will lead to more sustainable mines that local communities support.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; mining sustainability; mining stakeholder; community engagement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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