Brown bag lunch seminar 2023.9.13 Ilir Haxhi

Topic:
“Conflicts between Firms and Communities: A Configurational”

Speaker:
Ilir Haxhi
(Associate Professor of Strategy & International Business,
Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam)

Date:
September 13 (Wednesday), 2023
from 12:40 to 14:00

Venue:
onsite
IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite)

Organizer:
Masaru Karube

This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi University.

Abstract:
We explore the intensity of conflicts between firms and their external stakeholders, uncovering the so-far understudied inter-relationships between stakeholders as a key driver of conflict intensity. Grounding our reasoning in stakeholder theory, we develop a configurational approach that explains the interdependent impact of the three sectors of society on conflict intensity. Specifically, we argue that determinants of firms (foreign and/or domestic), civil society (rural versus urban; local stakeholder diversity; international non-profits), and governments (rule of law and economic dependence) interdependently lead to higher or lower conflict intensity. We follow the fuzzy sets (fs/QCA) logic to uncover these patterns through the analysis of a database of 711 socio-environmental extractive industry conflicts in 92 countries. Our results show that no sector-based determinant can explain firm-stakeholder conflict intensity on its own, but that the various sectors must be analyzed together to explain conflict intensity. We find 23 distinct configurations of firm-stakeholder conflicts that can be grouped into eight broad conflict prototypes: six always associated with higher conflict intensity; one always associated with lower intensity; and one associated with either higher or lower intensity, depending on one particular determinant: international non-profits. We conclude with a discussion of our contributions, and managerial and policy implications.
Keywords: Conflicts – Firms – Communities – Extractive industries – Fuzzy-set/QCA

Deadline:
9:00, September 13, 2023

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