Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Ståle Knudsen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. Knudsen has, since the early 1990s, done ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey, and his publications include the monograph, Fisheries in Modernizing Turkey (Berghahn 2009).

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Preface



Introduction: Bringing the State Back in: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of Norwegian State Capitalism in the International Energy and Extraction Industries

Ståle Knudsen, Dinah Rajak, Siri Lange, and Isabelle Hugøy



Part I: Setting the Scene. Introduction and Framing of CSR in the Norwegian Context.



Chapter 1. Rethinking Access: Key Methodological Challenges in Studying Energy Companies

Ingrid Birce Müftüoğlu, Ståle Knudsen, Ragnhild Freng Dale, Oda Eiken, Dinah Rajak, and Siri Lange



Chapter 2. Samfunnsansvar is not CSR: Mapping Expectations and Practices of (Corporate) Social Responsibility in Norway

Oda Eiken Maraire and Isabelle Hugøy



Chapter 3. Dynamics of Localized Social Responsibility: A Case from Agder, Norway

Eldar Bråten



Chapter 4. Model of a Model: Norsk Hydro at Home and Abroad

Ståle Knudsen



Part II: Ethnographies of Norwegian Corporations’ Engagement with CSR



Chapter 5. Traveling, Translation, Transformation: On Social Responsibility and the Nordic Model in China

Emil A. Røyrvik



Chapter 6. Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or “What IBAMA Wants”: Equinor Brazil’s Social Sustainability Policy

Iselin Åsedotter Strønen



Chapter 7. Gender, Regulation, and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Equinor’s Social Investments in Tanzania

Siri Langeand Victoria Wyndham



Chapter 8. Exporting the Norwegian Model Through the “Capacity Building” of a Local Union Branch: The Case of Equinor in Tanzania

Siri Lange



Chapter 9. Staging Mutual Dependencies: Energy Infrastructure and CSR in a Norwegian Petroleum Town

Ragnhild Freng Dale



Chapter 10. Standardizing Responsibility Through the Stakeholder Figure: Norwegian Hydropower in Turkey

Ståle Knudsen, Ingrid Birce Müftüoğlu, and Isabelle Hugøy



Chapter 11. The “Nordic model” in the Middle East Oil Fields: How Shareholder Value Eclipses Corporate Responsibility

Synnøve Bendixsen    



Conclusion: Inactive State Ownership and the Nordic Model Recast as “Values”

Ståle Knudsen



Index