Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2013, 61(7), 2163-2170 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201361072163

Corporate social responsibility in mining industry

Sylvie Gurská, Adriana Válová
Department of Management, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

This paper focuses on the comparison of corporate social responsibility in mining industry. It compares specific territorial areas of two different countries - one of them country that could be called as semi-periphery or even core country and the second one a periphery country. The first one is Czech Republic (Northern Bohemia area) and the second one is Zambia (Copperbelt area). CSR activities in Copperbelt have played primarily an ameliorative role in the context of significant social disruption and uncertainty in the wake of privatization. Some experts say there are still important gaps between mining companies' CSR activities, on the one hand, and accountability and fairness, on the other. The CSR concept is relatively new in the Czech Republic - but more and more discussed and interesting for many firms. The Czech company "Severočeské doly" was one of the finalists of the national round of the competition "The European Corporate (Social) Responsibility Award" in 2007. The aim of this paper is to find the opportunities the companies working in this industry use, and how the system of CSR is developed. It analysis the areas they concentrate on in their CSR activities and compares it with theoretical concept. The comparison is based on secondary data as well as on personal experience of visiting both of these areas and companies.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility, mining industry, triple bottom line
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This text is part of COSRE related outputs. COSRE (Corporate Social Responsibility) is IP Erasmus project 2013 coordinated at Faculty of Business and Economics at MENDELU.

Received: April 11, 2013; Published: December 24, 2013  Show citation

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Gurská, S., & Válová, A. (2013). Corporate social responsibility in mining industry. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 61(7), 2163-2170. doi: 10.11118/actaun201361072163
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