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Title: Determinants of Nigerian managers’ environmental attitude: Africa's Ubuntu ethics versus global capitalism
Authors: Okereke, C
Vincent, S
Mordi, C
Keywords: African Managers;African MNCs;Corporate Social Responsibility;Culture and Management;Environmental Responsibility
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
Citation: Thunderbird International Business Review
Abstract: We investigate the impact of economic, institutional, and ethical pressures on African managers' corporate social and environmental attitude based on a survey involving 377 Nigerian executives in the extractive industry. We find that environmental orientation and behavior are mostly induced by instrumental economic motives, while ethical considerations exert a weak impact. This finding is significant because it contradicts mainstream corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature in Africa, which suggests the dominance of the culturally based, altruistic African Ubuntu philosophy. Based on this research finding, we suggest that economic globalization has spurned a transnational capitalist cadre of managers whose values are shaped far more by global capitalist instincts than any putative cultural philosophy. The findings also undercut the fundamental logic underpinning the numerous global initiatives to promote environmental responsibility by multinational corporations in developing countries, which assumes that managers will pursue environmental sustainability voluntarily in the absence of robust regulations and strict enforcement.
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/16217
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.21974
ISSN: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.21974
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