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Do Canadian mining firms behave worse than other companies? quantitative evidence from Latin America
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Haslam, Paul Alexander, Ary Tanimoune, Nasser and Razeq, Zarlasht M. (2018) Do Canadian mining firms behave worse than other companies? quantitative evidence from Latin America. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 51 (3). pp. 521-551. doi:10.1017/S0008423918000185 ISSN 0008-4239.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008423918000185
Abstract
The effects of Canadian mining companies on local communities abroad is an increasingly contentious topic as activists and academics, citing case studies, have drawn attention to alleged problems. Despite the policy relevance of this issue, there have been no generalizable analyses of whether mining companies headquartered in Canada behave differently from mining firms headquartered in other countries. This paper conducts the first rigorous statistical analysis of the effect of country of origin, or more specifically, “being Canadian,” on the occurrence of known social conflicts in Latin America. We use an original database of 634 mining properties in five Latin American countries, which allows us to differentiate between a country-of-origin effect and other probable determinants of social conflict in communities near mining properties. We find that Canadian mining firms perform slightly better than other foreign firms, but worse than locally owned firms.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Canadian Journal of Political Science | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0008-4239 | ||||||
Official Date: | September 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 51 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 521-551 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0008423918000185 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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