Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies

By N. Garvey, P. Newell. 2005

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This paper investigates how, why, and when community-based strategies are effective in promoting corporate accountability (CA) to the poor. It argues that mainstream approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) underestimate the importance of power in the relationship between corporations and the communities in which they invest, which limits their applicability to many developing-country contexts in particular. In addressing this neglect, the article draws on literature on power, accountability, and citizen participation in order to analyse cases where communities have attempted to hold corporations to account for their social and environmental responsibilities. The paper argues that more attention should be paid to a number of state-, corporation-, and community-related factors, which are found to be key to the effectiveness of strategies aimed at enhancing CA to the poor.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Finance, Strategy and Management

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SMEs and CSR in Developing Countries (2017, background): “…article was accepted during the editorship of Duane Windsor. oil corporations (Frynas, 2005), community-based corporate accountability strategies (Garvey & Newell, 2005), public–private partnerships (LundThomsen, 2009), ethical trade initiatives (Barrientos & Smith, 2007), responsible taxation…”
Researches in Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Shifting Focus, Paradigms, and Methodologies (2011, unknown): “(Bird and Smucker, 2007; Byre, 2007; Eweje, 2007; Garvey and Newell, 2005; Griesse, 2007a, b; Maignan and Ralston, 2002; Perrini et al., 2007; Preseton et al., 1978).”
The empty rhetoric of poverty reduction at the base of the pyramid (2012, background): “But even when the financial issue is not an overriding constraint, widespread evidence on the non-performance of CSR on social development criteria (see e.g. Frynas, 2005; Garvey and Newell 2005), coupled with wider controversies surrounding many TNCs on issues of land grabs and exploitation of work”
Industrial Clusters and Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries: What We Know, What We do not Know, and What We Need to Know (2016, unknown): “Communities may engage in community-based corporate accountability strategies, publicizing instances of non-compliance with existing regulations through media outlets (Garvey and Newell 2005).”