Community expectations from Ghana's new oil find: Conceptualizing corporate social responsibility as a grassroots-oriented process

Africa Today

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-75

  Andrews, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMENITY; CORPORATE STRATEGY; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; OIL INDUSTRY; OIL PRODUCTION; SUSTAINABILITY;

GHANA;

EID: 84886936760     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: 15271978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.60.1.55     Document Type: Article

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