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Une perspective anthropologique sur les pratiques de responsabilité des entreprises dans les chaînes de valeur mondiales

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  • Laura Knöpfel

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This contribution introduces a legal anthropological perspective on the governance of mining firms in global value chains. It takes the reader into a set of corporate-community relations on the resource frontier of a commodity enterprise in El Cesar, Northern Colombia. A particular corporate responsibility practice ? social programmes ? are presented and their effects on the corporate-community relations explored. The anthropological argument is that the social programmes continue a cycle of reciprocity by which the mining firm forges close and entangled relations to the local communities. In the closeness, the firm assumes and voices far-reaching responsibilities for the economic and social well-being of local communities. This anthropological conception of corporate-community relations and corporate responsibilities on resource frontiers find a legal counterpart in contractual obligations and third-party beneficiary rights. Hence, contract law could and should play a pivotal role in the regulation of global value chains in the commodity sector and beyond.

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  • Laura Knöpfel, 2021. "Une perspective anthropologique sur les pratiques de responsabilité des entreprises dans les chaînes de valeur mondiales," Revue internationale de droit économique, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(4), pages 45-67.
  • Handle: RePEc:cai:riddbu:ride_354_0045
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