TY  - SER
AU  - Mohammed, Abdullahi Inuwa
TI  - Corporate Social Responsibility by Oil Companies in Nigeria
PY  - 2013///
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Oil Industries
KW  - Csr
KW  - Corporate Social Responsibility
KW  - Social Entrepreneurship
KW  - Non Government Organizations
KW  - Ngos As Ventures
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Tenth Biennial Conference On Entrepreneu
KW  - Biennial Conference Papers
N2  - Corporate social responsibility refers to the voluntary obligations of business to society, roles which a business firm must perform for the whole society as a matter of duty and without being told or ordered to do them. They imply that a firm has a duty to serve the larger interest of the society, to promote social welfare, to participate responsibly in and make whatever  is productive for society, to assume a wide range of non economic responsibilities for improving the quality of life in the area in which the company is operating and above all, to ensure that its dealings with various public constituencies are conducted with utmost integrity, adhering to the highest standards of ethical, just and fair conduct. Discharge of corporate social responsibility of oil companies operating in the oil rich Niger delta could bring about improved, rapid economic developments which will also springboard an overall socio-economic growth across the spectrum of Niger deltas.  This will also address the pervasive level of abject poverty prevalent with overwhelming majority, insecurity, youth restiveness, killings, kidnapping, bunkering, oil pipeline vanderlisation and other social vices such
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