著者

坂田 章吉

出版者

一般社団法人 資源・素材学会

雑誌

Journal of MMIJ (ISSN:18816118)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.138, no.7, pp.116-128, 2022-07-28 (Released:2022-07-28)

参考文献数

12

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The Federal Republic of Nigeria (herein after referred to as “Nigeria”) is the largest oil producing country in Africa and 13th in the world. However, community development is delayed especially in the Niger Delta where oil is produced. In this situation, many CSR community development projects of multi-national oil development companies (herein after referred to as “companies”) are implemented there.Frynas (2005) suggested that if the government’s community development (herein after referred to as “development”) is insufficient, people turn to companies for such development. It also suggested that, in general, CSR doesn’t succeed in its role, but if CSR were successful, this might ease the pressure on the government to undertake a development role.Sakata (2020) studied this by interviewing people in Nigeria, however, the sample size was not large enough and more study was required.In this study, Nigerian people in a sufficient sample size were interviewed to determine the ratio of people’s expectations of development by companies and government inside and outside of the Niger Delta, and the reasons for people’s expectations for each, in order to examine the factors of people’s high expectation for companies in the Niger Delta and occurrence of pressure reduction on the government.The study indicates that people’s expectation of development by companies is higher in the Niger Delta than in other areas, and that the most common reason for expectation of development by companies is “demand of compensation for using land and oil and causing environmental pollution in Nigeria by companies”, rather than “reliance on companies’ ability and resignation over the government’s inability to provide development”, which suggests that the factors of high expectation for the companies in the Niger Delta are the insufficient government’s development and the people’s idea that the companies should compensate to the communities and people who are suffered from the oil development in the Niger Delta. In addition, the study indicates that most people recognize that the government has a responsibility for development even though they expect development by companies, which suggests that the reduction in the pressure on the government is limited.

著者

坂田 章吉

出版者

一般社団法人 資源・素材学会

雑誌

Journal of MMIJ (ISSN:18816118)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.136, no.12, pp.159-172, 2020-12-31 (Released:2020-12-25)

参考文献数

38

被引用文献数

1

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Since multi-national oil development companies (herein after referred to as “companies”) employ significant CSR in the Federal Republic of Nigeria (herein after referred to as “Nigeria”), CSR in Nigeria is examined in this study. CSR has changed from only pursuing a “corporate objective”, which aims to achieve companies' stable operations, to emphasizing a “development objective” through which the “corporate objective” could still be achieved. However, it has been suggested that the “development objective” oriented CSR has not always been effective because companies had a tendency to emphasize the “corporate objective”, and the “development objective” was often incompatible with the “corporate objective”. Also, it has been suggested that government failure in its community development increased the people's expectation of companies to provide community development and that community development by CSR might ease the pressure on the government to undertake a developmental role. This study examines these points and the results are as follows. Since some CSR cases were found to have achieved both the “development objective” and the “corporate objective” simultaneously, it is possible that these objectives can be achieved in concert. Many of the people who expected community development by companies responded that companies had a responsibility to pay compensation for oil extraction from the Niger Delta/Nigeria, some responded that companies had social responsibility, and a few responded that companies may have been able to provide effective community development for their CSR. Furthermore, it has been inferred that companies were expected to pay compensation even though they payed taxes to the government, because the government provided only limited community development using these tax receipts. Thus, it appears that, expectation of compensation for oil extraction by companies and their social responsibility, as well as limited community development by the government, are the major factors that could increase the people's expectation of companies to provide community development and ease the pressure on the government.