Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Nigerian Mining Industry: Host Communities’ Perspectives

Abstract

This chapter addresses the need to evaluate the outcomes of extractive companies in the mining industry’s behaviours in terms of CSR expectations of the host communities as perceived by the indigenous peoples themselves. Employing Dangote Cement Company Plc as a case study, questionnaires were conducted using a Likert-type scale on the immediate host communities of the company. Chi-squared, Kolmogorov–Smirnov normality test and t-test distribution were employed for the study. The result is that the impact of CSR of the company on the host communities, as perceived by the indigenous peoples, is abysmally low on economic, environmental, philanthropy and legal perspectives. The implications are discussed.

Citation

Achua, J.K. and Utume, D.A. (2015), "Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Nigerian Mining Industry: Host Communities’ Perspectives", Sustainability After Rio (Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-052320150000008007