Multinationals and Community Engagement in South Africa and Mexico

Ian W. Jones, Michael Pollitt and David Bek
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Ian W. Jones: University of Oxford
David Bek: University of Cambridge

Chapter 5 in Multinationals in their Communities, 2007, pp 129-173 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The next two chapters seek to use the social capital concept, discussed in the previous chapter, to measure the community engagement activities of multinationals undertaken as part of their corporate citizenship programmes. A major advantage of the social capital literature is that it facilitates measurement of the inputs and outputs of corporate citizenship programmes in a way that allows comparisons of levels and distribution of corporate community engagement activities to be made. The measures of community engagement are reported for each firm in two samples of multinationals and subjected to some statistical analysis. A major benefit of our analysis in contrast to previous studies of corporate giving is that we can focus on community engagement in individual countries (for which corporate giving data is not usually available).

Keywords: Social Capital; Community Engagement; Corporate Citizenship; Portable Document Format; Extractive Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230211056_5

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