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dc.contributor.advisorGray, Rob
dc.contributor.advisorBebbington, Jan
dc.contributor.authorEgbon, Osamuyimen
dc.coverage.spatial295en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-22T15:02:14Z
dc.date.available2015-04-22T15:02:14Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-26
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.644841
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/6537
dc.description.abstractThe economic activities of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the extractive industries of developing countries produce a myriad of immediate negative social, economic and environmental impacts on communities hosting their operations. Consequently, stakeholders have increasingly called for (greater) accountability of these corporations for the impacts of their operations on stakeholders and the wider society. The extent to which these MNCs are accountable for their operations’ negative environmental impacts in the developing countries is underexplored as prior studies have primarily focused on corporate social responsibility rather than accountability of these corporations. However, accountability apparently means different things to different parties, and especially in a non-Western context. This thesis primarily seeks to explore the concept of accountability in a developing country context and how it is understood and practised within the Nigerian oil industry. More specifically, it seeks to understand the extent to which oil MNCs in Nigeria discharge accountability in the context of gas flaring and oil spills environmental pollution emanating from their operations. The study utilises a mixed methods approach to generate data to provide understanding on stakeholders’ conceptions of accountability, the nature of accounts constructed by the MNCs on gas flaring and oil spills environmental incidents, and the plausible corporate sense-making embedded within those accounts. The empirical data produce both general and nuanced conceptions of accountability between the MNCs and stakeholders. An account-giving heuristic highlights four broad and further nuanced accounts the corporations provide on these negative environmental incidents which are largely in conflict with stakeholders’ narratives. Moreover, the sense-making analysis of the MNCs’ accounts suggests that those accounts apparently serve corporate self-interest rather than the discharge of accountability. However, organisational, institutional, relational, and national contextual factors apparently encourage the un-accountability of the MNCs. Accountability in the Nigerian oil industry will remain elusive without critical institutional and regulatory reforms.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectAccountabilityen_US
dc.subjectSocial and environmental accountingen_US
dc.subjectOil and gas industryen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.subjectMultinational corporationsen_US
dc.subjectCommunitiesen_US
dc.subjectStakeholdersen_US
dc.subjectSensemakingen_US
dc.subjectAccount-givingen_US
dc.subjectNiger Deltaen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen_US
dc.subjectDeveloping countriesen_US
dc.subjectExtractive industryen_US
dc.subject.lccHD60.5N5E4
dc.subject.lcshSocial responsibility of business--Nigeriaen_US
dc.subject.lcshPetroleum industry and trade--Nigeriaen_US
dc.subject.lcshInternational business enterprises--Nigeriaen_US
dc.subject.lcshSocial responsibility of business--Developing countriesen_US
dc.subject.lcshPetroleum industry and trade--Developing countriesen_US
dc.subject.lcshInternational business enterprises--Developing countriesen_US
dc.titleAn exploration of accountability : evidence from the Nigerian oil and gas industryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorScottish Government (SORSAS)en_US
dc.contributor.sponsorUniversity of St Andrewsen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorUniversity of St Andrews. School of Managementen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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