The Contribution of Civil Society in the Implementation of CSR: The Case of Cameroon with SOCAPALM Affair

Ernest-Marie Mbonda ()
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Ernest-Marie Mbonda: Catholic University of Central Africa

Chapter Chapter 8 in Corporate Social Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2016, pp 175-188 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract If CSR now has an important place in the economic and institutional landscape of western countries, in Africa, at least in the canonical form of CSR that has emerged today, it still quite largely unknown to the general public as well as business community. Companies are certainly used to refer generally to the laws governing economic transactions (tax, marketing and distribution, labor laws, etc.). But they are few to explicitly mention CSR in their activities. In societies where states tend to show little vigilance concerning the implementation of CSR, it is the involvement of civil society that determines the emergence of a CSR culture in organizational, managerial and economic practices of national and multinational companies. The aim of this paper is to account for this assumption from the situation of CSR in Cameroon and in particular the case of the Cameroon Society of Palm (SOCAPALM) which was in the center of an unprecedented mobilization of the civil society.

Keywords: Civil Society; Socially Responsible Investment; Media Medium; Economic Responsibility; Environmental Performance Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26668-8_8

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