Overview
Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad in places such as China, Brazil, and Turkey. With significant state ownership and embeddedness in the Nordic societal model, Norwegian capitalism is often represented as benign or ethical. By tracing CSR policy and practice-from headquarters to operations-this volume critically explores the workings of Norwegian corporate capitalism and its engagement with key issues of responsibility, accountability, and sustainability.
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Author: Stale Knudsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781800738737
ISBN 10: 1800738730
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 12 May 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Bringing the State Back in: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of Norwegian State Capitalism in the International Energy and Extraction Industries Stale Knudsen, Dinah Rajak, Siri Lange, and Isabelle Hugoy Part I: Setting the Scene. Introduction and Framing of CSR in the Norwegian Context. Chapter 1. Rethinking Access: Key Methodological Challenges in Studying Energy Companies Ingrid Birce Muftuoglu, Stale Knudsen, Ragnhild Freng Dale, Oda Eiken, Dinah Rajak, and Siri Lange Chapter 2. Samfunnsansvar is not CSR: Mapping Expectations and Practices of (Corporate) Social Responsibility in Norway Oda Eiken Maraire and Isabelle Hugoy Chapter 3. Dynamics of Localized Social Responsibility: A Case from Agder, Norway Eldar Braten Chapter 4. Model of a Model: Norsk Hydro at Home and Abroad Stale Knudsen Part II: Ethnographies of Norwegian Corporations' Engagement with CSR Chapter 5. Traveling, Translation, Transformation: On Social Responsibility and the Nordic Model in China Emil A. Royrvik Chapter 6. Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or What IBAMA Wants : Equinor Brazil's Social Sustainability Policy Iselin Asedotter Stronen Chapter 7. Gender, Regulation, and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Equinor's Social Investments in Tanzania Siri Langeand Victoria Wyndham Chapter 8. Exporting the Norwegian Model Through the Capacity Building of a Local Union Branch: The Case of Equinor in Tanzania Siri Lange Chapter 9. Staging Mutual Dependencies: Energy Infrastructure and CSR in a Norwegian Petroleum Town Ragnhild Freng Dale Chapter 10. Standardizing Responsibility Through the Stakeholder Figure: Norwegian Hydropower in Turkey Stale Knudsen, Ingrid Birce Muftuoglu, and Isabelle Hugoy Chapter 11. The Nordic model in the Middle East Oil Fields: How Shareholder Value Eclipses Corporate Responsibility Synnove Bendixsen Conclusion: Inactive State Ownership and the Nordic Model Recast as Values Stale Knudsen Index
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Offers a timely and vital critique of the practice of corporate social responsibility by state-owned companies, filling a gap in existing literature that focuses on private firms. * Jessica Smith, Colorado School of Mines
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Stale Knudsen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. Knudsen has, since the early 1990s, done ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey, and his publications include the monograph, Fisheries in Modernizing Turkey (Berghahn 2009).
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