Multinational mining enterprises and small-scale artisanal miners:from confrontation to cooperation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Yakovleva, Natalia; Vazquez-Brust, Diego Alfonso
- Source
- Yakovleva, N & Vazquez-Brust, D A 2018, ' Multinational mining enterprises and small-scale artisanal miners : from confrontation to cooperation ', Journal of World Business, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 52-62 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.08.004
- Subject
- ComputingMethodologies_PATTERNRECOGNITION
artisanal mining
IAD
Business and Management
InformationSystems_DATABASEMANAGEMENT
stakeholder salience
informalit
CSR
MNEs
- Language
- English
In many developing countries, multinational enterprises (MNEs) in mining operate alongside fast-growing communities of informal artisanal, small-scale miners, This has led to direct conflict and competition for mineral resources among these mining parties. This paper introduces the Salience and Institutional Analysis and Design framework as a means to analyze the MNE strategies used to address informal miners across different governance levels in the gold mining sector of Ghana and discusses the implications of these strategies for sustainability. We identify the emergence of a cooperative strategy with informal miners as a sustainable alternative to the political strategy of reliance on the state to protect tenure.