Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Community Relations: Measuring Relationship-Building Results

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarete R. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Corporate Community

Providing for the Public Good: Corporate–Community Relations in the Era of the Receding Welfare State

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Guthrie ◽  
Michael McQuarrie
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Corporate Giving ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Corporate Community

In his pioneering research on corporate–community ties in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Galaskiewicz (1985a) examined the social conditions that guided corporate philanthropy in a given metropolitan area. Two conditions, however, suggest the need for revisiting the type of research taken on in that original study. First, Galaskiewicz's study lacked a comparative dimension for examining the institutional environments that drive variation across localities. Second, a great deal has changed in the institutional conditions that drive corporate ties to their communities since the 1980s and early 1990s, the most important institutional change coming from the Tax Reform Act of 1986 . We identify two significant factors that contribute to variation in local philanthropic commitments of corporations to the metropolitan communities in which they are headquartered. First, local corporate tax rates increase corporate giving overall, but they drive down corporate commitments to their localities. Second, the local state's involvement in the Low–Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program of 1986 also drives down local corporate giving. Thus, activist states that are successful in capturing the fiscal resources of corporations through a variety of institutional mechanisms end up driving down the philanthropic commitments of the corporations that are headquartered in those localities. We illuminate these relationships through in–depth qualitative research in three case cities and data on a nationally representative sample of 2,776 corporations.

scholarly journals The Relation Between Corporate Philanthropy and Territorial Development in Brazil: Mapping the Corporate Social Managers’ Perspectives

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Livia Menezes Pagotto ◽  
Mariana Xavier Nicolletti ◽  
Mario Monzoni
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Social License ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Corporate Community ◽  
Corporate Social Investment

Research objective: To characterize and to discuss corporate social investment focused on territorial development in Brazil. Theoretical framework: Corporate philanthropy and corporate community relations. Methodology: Narrative approach based on a two-fold data collection strategy: semi-structured interviews and a focus group. Results: Three main narratives to make sense of the role of corporate social investment in fostering territorial development: (i) institutional capabilities and social participation; (ii) and aligning of corporate social investment to public policies; and (iii) shared value and social license to operate. Originality: A comprehensive understanding of the territorial approach for development projects implemented by corporate social investors in Brazil. Theoretical and practical contributions: Contributions to the literature about corporate philanthropy, corporate community relations and, about the territorial development agenda in Brazil. Practical implications on the roles and responsibilities of businesses and its impacts on territorial development and, on the other hand, of the corporate social investor and its contribution to the development of the localities where a company operates.

Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainability

2015 ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Uzoechi Nwagbara
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Stakeholder Interaction ◽  
Corporate Community

The wave of new media technology is sweeping across the globe. Given its speed of information dissemination and retrieval, it is relevant to explore how it can be used to manage corporate-stakeholder relations, engagement, and communication. This is because communication is an effective medium for managing relations (and crisis). In the post-conflict era in Niger delta region of Nigeria that has been described as slipping into the abyss of renewed conflict and violence following perceived failure of the amnesty deal to drive change, it is crucial to rethink the instrumentality of the new media in bringing better corporate-community relations in the region. It is expected that this process will democratise stakeholder engagement and widen discursive space following the speed, method, and multiplicity of the platforms that new media affords. The author also hopes that arguments shared here will cause a rethink on the possibility of a sustainable future in post-conflict Niger delta through new media technology.

Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainability

2017 ◽  
pp. 770-783
Author(s):  
Uzoechi Nwagbara
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Stakeholder Interaction ◽  
Corporate Community

The wave of new media technology is sweeping across the globe. Given its speed of information dissemination and retrieval, it is relevant to explore how it can be used to manage corporate-stakeholder relations, engagement, and communication. This is because communication is an effective medium for managing relations (and crisis). In the post-conflict era in Niger delta region of Nigeria that has been described as slipping into the abyss of renewed conflict and violence following perceived failure of the amnesty deal to drive change, it is crucial to rethink the instrumentality of the new media in bringing better corporate-community relations in the region. It is expected that this process will democratise stakeholder engagement and widen discursive space following the speed, method, and multiplicity of the platforms that new media affords. The author also hopes that arguments shared here will cause a rethink on the possibility of a sustainable future in post-conflict Niger delta through new media technology.

Corporate-Community Relations

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 621-632
Author(s):  
Sandra A. Waddock ◽  
Mary-Ellen Boyle ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Relations ◽  
Corporate Community

scholarly journals Corporate community relations and development: engagement with indigenous peoples

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jhon Urasti Blesia ◽  
Susan Wild ◽  
Keith Dixon ◽  
Beverley Rae Lord
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
National Level ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Corporate Community ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge about community relations and development (CRD) activities done in conjunction with mining activities of multinational companies affecting indigenous peoples and thus help improve relationships between them, despite continuing bad consequences the people continue to endure. It is through such better relationships that these consequences may be redressed and mitigated, and greater sharing of benefits of mining may occur, bearing in mind what constitutes benefits may differ from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples and the miners. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach is taken, including interviews with company officials responsible for CRD activities, elaborated with observations, company and public documents and previous literature about these mining operations and the peoples. Findings The CRD activities have gradually increased compared with their absence previously. They are officially labelled social investment in community development programmes, and are funded from profits and couched in terms of human development, human rights, preservation of culture and physical development of infrastructure. Dissatisfied with programme quality and relevance, company officials now relate with indigenous people, their leaders and representatives in ways called engagement and partnerships. Practical implications The findings can inform policies and practices of the parties to CRD, which in this West Papua case would be the miners and their company, CRD practitioners, the indigenous peoples and the civil authorities at the local and national level and aid industry participants. Social implications The study acknowledges and addresses social initiatives to develop the indigenous peoples affected by mining. Originality/value The study extends older studies in the same territory before CRD had matured, and corroborates and elaborates other studies of CRD in different territories.

scholarly journals Shell Nigeria’s Global Memorandum of Understanding and corporate-community accountability relations

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamuyimen Egbon ◽  
Uwafiokun Idemudia ◽  
Kenneth Amaeshi
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Social Legitimacy ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Corporate Community

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Shell Nigeria’s Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) promotes corporate-community accountability as a basis for fostering sustainable community development in the Niger Delta. Design/methodology/approach Shell Nigeria’s GMoU stand-alone reports were analysed through the lenses of accountability and transparency theoretical frameworks to explore the extent to which GMoU, as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, is dialogically embedded and practised. Meaning-oriented content analysis was deductively used to isolate pertinent themes and generate findings from the background theoretical literature. Findings The authors find that Shell discursively appropriates the meaning of accountability and transparency in a manner that allows it to maintain its social legitimacy and the asymmetric power relations between itself and host communities whilst restricting communities’ agency to hold it accountable. Shell does this by interpreting the notion of participation restrictively, selectively deploying the concept of transparency and accountability and subtly exerting excessive control over the GMoU. Thus, the GMoU’s potential to contribute to sustainable community development and positive corporate-community relation is unlikely tenable. Originality/value Accountability and transparency are core and critical to corporate-community relations and for achieving community development CSR objectives, but are often taken for granted or ignored in the CSR literature on the Niger Delta of Nigeria. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by using accountability and transparency lenses to unpick GMoU model and contribute to studies on CSR practices by oil multinational corporations (MNCs) in developing countries. Indeed, the use of these lenses to explore CSR process offers new insights as to why CSR practices have failed to contribute to sustainable community development despite increased community spending by oil MNCs.

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