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    The « hardening » of multinational corporations’ responsibility antecedents and consequences
    (Neuchâtel : Université de Neuchâtel, 2024-08-27) ;
    Ces dernières années, la réglementation de la responsabilité des Entreprises Multinationales (EMNs) est passée de mécanismes purement volontaires et d'autorégulation à des obligations juridiquement contraignantes, une tendance connue sous le nom de « durcissement » de la responsabilité des EMNs. La littérature précédente a cherché à mieux comprendre le déroulement de ces processus de « durcissement » et les instruments qui les facilitent. Elle a notamment mis en évidence le rôle des gouvernements en tant qu'acteurs essentiels, mais négligés, de la régulation de la responsabilité des EMNs. Cette thèse souhaite contribuer à la littérature sur la gouvernance globale et la responsabilité sociale politique des entreprises en ce qui concerne le « durcissement » de la responsabilité des EMNs en examinant en profondeur leur processus d'émergence, les rôles des différents acteurs ainsi que leur interaction, et l'effet qu'ils ont sur la relation entre les entreprises et leurs parties prenantes. Plus précisément, elle cherche à promouvoir la réglementation de la responsabilité des EMN en tant que phénomène réglementaire de plus en plus complexe et pluraliste qui implique des interactions entre des acteurs hétérogènes, entraînant souvent des contestations et des conflits, à différents niveaux d'analyse.
    ABSTRACT:
    The regulation of Multinational Corporations' (MNCs) responsibility has shifted in recent years from purely voluntary and self-regulatory mechanisms to legally binding obligations, a trend known as the 'hardening' of MNCs’ responsibility. Previous literature has aimed to better understand the unfolding of these processes of 'hardening' and the instruments that facilitate them. In particular, it has highlighted the role of governments as critical yet overlooked actors in regulating MNCs’ responsibility. This dissertation intends to contribute to the literature on global governance and political corporate social responsibility on the ‘hardening’ of MNCs’ responsibility by further investigating the processes of emergence, the roles of different actors as well as their interplay, and the effect it has on the relationship between firms and their stakeholders. Specifically, it seeks to advance MNCs’ responsibility regulation as an increasingly complex and pluralist regulatory phenomenon that entails interactions among heterogenous actors, often resulting in contestation and struggle, at different levels of analysis.
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    Cerrejón and Colombia’s Guajira region: From protracted company-community conflict to earning a social license to operate?
    Cerrejon, a large-scale open-pit coal mine in Colombia that started operating in the early 1980s, has received multiple national awards and recognition for the various corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and programs it has implemented in recent years. Despite these initiatives, however, Cerrejon faces increasing stakeholder claims and continues to have conflictive relationships with local communities owing to differing interests relating to the use, management, appropriation, utilization, exploration, exploitation, conservation, and protection of environmental resources. The case documents the history of the relationship between Cerrejon and local communities. It introduces the mine’s history and of Cerrejon's mining and CSR activities. It traces the company's management of its social and environmental impacts in light of the applicable international standards. The case sheds particular light on the issues that underpin the company's conflictive relationship with local communities, who have a stake in the territory exploited by the company's mining activities. The case concludes with open questions concerning how Cerrejon, having increased its CSR activities while facing increased stakeholder claims, should continue to manage its relationship with local communities, to maintain or achieve a 'social license to operate' going forward.