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Multi-level corporate responsibility and the mining sector: Learning from the Canadian experience in Latin America

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Kernaghan Webb
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Abstract

The primary research question animating this article revolves around understanding how multinational mining corporations (MMCs) are responding to the twin pressures of globalization and localization to develop Corporate Responsibility (CR) approaches that apply at a global level and to their subsidiaries in various different jurisdictions, with particular attention being paid to the role of home, host and international factors in shaping the CR approaches of MMCs. The focus of attention is on the experience of Canadian MMCs in Latin America, using as an illustration the particular CR response of one Canadian MMC at its subsidiary Guatemalan mining operation. Research suggests that home country factors play an important role in shaping corporate CR approaches in a manner which take into account the circumstances extant at subsidiary operations in developing countries, as do transnational advocacy networks and global normative instruments.

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Corporate Responsibility, Multinational Corporations, and Nation States
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Business and Politics , Volume 14 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Corporate Responsibility, Multinational Corporations, and Nation States , October 2012 , pp. 1 - 42
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Copyright © V.K. Aggarwal 2012 and published under exclusive license to Cambridge University Press 

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a The author would like to express his appreciation to the editors of this special issue, as well as to participants in the workshop where an earlier version of this paper was presented, and to anonymous reviewers, for their helpful comments. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial assistance concerning the background research for this article.

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