1st Edition

Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry

Edited By Charles Woolfson, Matthais Beck Copyright 2005
170 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

Corporate Social Responsibility: Failures in the Oil Industry directly challenges the oil industry's claims of corporate good citizenship, now widely advanced as part of a global public relations initiative. The volume spans the industry's reach, from the troubled waters of the UK offshore Continental Shelf, with its horrendous legacy of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, to the inhospitable... Read more
 

Introduction

Chapter One: Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Oil Industry Charles Woolfson and Matthias Beck

Chapter Two: The Piper Alpha Disaster and Industrial Relations in Britain’s Offshore Oil Industry Charles Woolfson, Matthias Beck, and John Foster

Chapter Three: Safety and Industrial Relations in the Newfoundland Offshore Oil Industry since the Ocean Ranger Disaster in 1982 Susan M. Hart

Chapter Four: BP’s Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: The New Corporate Colonialism James Marriott and Greg Muttitt

Chapter Five: Northern Exposure Michael Gillard, Melissa Jones, and Andrew Rowell

Chapter Six: Loaded Dice: Multinational Oil, Due Process and the State Matthias Beck and Charles Woolfson

Selected Bibliography

About the Editors

Contributors

Index

Biography

Charles Woolfson, Matthais Beck