Amaeshi, Kenneth and Amao, Olufemi O. (2008) Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in transnational spaces: an institutionalist deconstruction of MNC's CSR practices in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. Working Paper. University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Coventry.

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Abstract

Drawing from the varieties of capitalism theoretical framework, the study explores the home country influences of MNCs on their CSR practices when they operate outside their national/regional institutional contexts. The study focuses on a particular CSR practice (i.e. corporate code of conducts) of seven MNCs from Europe (4) and the USA (3) operating in the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian economy. The study concludes that the corporate codes of conduct of these MNCs operating in Nigeria, to a large extent, reflect the characteristics of their home countries model of capitalism, respectively. The home countries model of capitalism is also found to have implications for the degree of adaptability of these MNCs CSR practices to the Nigerian institutional context. It is anticipated that the study will contribute to the emerging literature on the institutional embeddedness of CSR practices in trans-national spaces and that of CSR in developing economies.

Item Type:	Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Alternative Title:	Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in transnational spaces: an institutionalist deconstruction of multinational corporation's corporate social responsibility practices in the Nigerian oil and gas sector
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Social responsibility of business -- Nigeria, Capitalism -- Nigeria, International business enterprises -- Nigeria, Petroleum industry and trade -- Nigeria
Series Name:	Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation)
Publisher:	University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Place of Publication:	Coventry
Date:	July 2008
Number:	No.248
Number of Pages:	34
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
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