Corporate Social Responsibility: Between Civil Society and the Oil Industry in the Developing World

Abstract

For several decades, Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and many institutions collaborating with them have been the target of several negative or anticorporate campaigns by civil society actors including anti-corporate campaigners, anti-capitalists, anti-globalists, greens, and academics despite their seeming contribution to the development of society. However, the present decade has witnessed a new trend in the relationship between these TNCs and civil society actors – the development of collaborative relationships, the purpose of which appears to benefit business’s image more than society.