Date of Conferral

2021

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Management

Advisor

Daphne Halkias

Abstract

Scholars within the business and peace literature domain identified a knowledge gap in the understanding of community stakeholders’ views and expectations about the specific strategies that support corporate peacebuilding in conflict-ridden host communities. The purpose of this qualitative, multiple case study is to gain a deeper understanding of host community stakeholders’ expectations of international oil companies’ (IOCs’) peacebuilding programs within the Niger Delta. To address the research problem and purpose of the study, qualitative data were collected from multiple sources of evidence including semistructured interviews with eight community stakeholders, archival data, and reflective journaling notes. This study was framed by Jennings’ concept of peacekeeping as enterprise and Ingenhoff and Sommer’s concept of stakeholder expectation regarding the social engagement of companies. Thematic analysis and cross-case synthesis of data from the interviews revealed 13 themes encased within the following five coding categories: (a) stakeholder expectations of IOCs’ peacebuilding programs, (b) corporate-community conflict on peacebuilding as through enterprise, (c) stakeholder engagement in corporate peacebuilding program, (d) IOCs investment in education and training needs of local communities, and (e) IOC-driven initiatives to strengthen a peacebuilding economy. This study gave voice to the Niger Delta’s community stakeholders’ expectations in corporate peacebuilding programs, representing a promising avenue for driving positive social change for more effective peacebuilding programs and renewed community trust in IOCs’ peacebuilding programs in the region.

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