Enacting the corporation : an American mining firm in post-authoritarian Indonesia / / Marina Welker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463979503321
• Autore: Welker Marina <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-520-95795-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.8/872209598
• Soggetti: Mineral industries - Social aspects - Indonesia - Sumbawa Island; Social responsibility of business - Indonesia - Sumbawa Island; Social responsibility of business - Colorado - Greenwood Village; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Pseudonyms and Quoted Sources -- Introduction -- 1. "We Need to Newmontize Folk": A New Social Discipline at Corporate Headquarters -- 2. "Pak Comrel Is Our Regent Whom We Respect": Mine, State, and Development Responsibility -- 3. "My Job Would Be Far Easier If Locals Were Already Capitalists": Incubating Enterprise and Patronage -- 4. "We Identified Farmers as Our Top Security Risk": Ethereal and Material Development in the Paddy Fields -- 5. "Corporate Security Begins in the Community": The Social Work of Environmental Management -- 6. "We Should Be Like Starbucks": The Social Assessment -- Conclusion: "Soft Is Hard" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Against the backdrop of an emerging Corporate Social Responsibility movement and changing state dynamics in Indonesia, she shows how people enact the mining corporation in multiple ways: ; as an ore producer, employer, patron, promoter of sustainable development, religious sponsor, auditable organization, foreign imperialist, and environmental threat. Rather than assuming that corporations are monolithic, profit-maximizing subjects, Welker turns to anthropological theories of personhood to develop an analytic model of the corporation as an unstable collective subject with multiple authors, boundaries, and interests. Enacting the Corporation demonstrates that corporations are constituted through continuous struggles over relations with-and responsibilities to-local communities, workers, activists, governments, contractors, and shareholders.

Empowering the Poor through Financial and Social Inclusion in Africa : An Islamic Perspective / / by Abdelrahman Elzahi Saaid Ali

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910564697703321
• Autore: Ali Abdelrahman Elzahi Saaid
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031009259; 9783031009242
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 pages)
• Disciplina: 332.096
• Soggetti: Development economics; Islam - Study and teaching; Development Economics; Islamic Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Islamic Microfinance: Moving beyond the Financial Inclusion -- Chapter 3. The Challenges Facing Poverty Alleviation and Financial Inclusion in Kenya -- Chapter 4. Empowering Women through Islamic Financial Inclusion in Comoros -- Chapter 5. The Regulatory and Supervisory Frameworks of Islamic Microfinance in Sudan -- Chapter 6. The Regulatory and Supervisory Frameworks of Conventional Microfinance in Kenya -- Chapter 7. The ; Challenges Facing Islamic Trade Finance in Promoting SMEs in IsDB Member Countries -- Chapter 8. Overcoming Financial Inclusion Challenges through Digital Finance.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book discusses financial inclusion, gender equality, regulatory regimes for microfinance, women empowerment, and digital finance from an Islamic perspective. It encourages the reader to reflect on whether the delivery of financial services from an Islamic perspective might be attainable and lead to achieving global financial inclusion. Accessing financing is one of the most formidable challenges facing disadvantaged in IsDB member countries. The race to serve these niche markets has led to the emergence of conventional microfinance. There remains the lingering question of whether conventional microfinance in its current form has conclusively led to poverty alleviation among Muslim communities. Hence, there is a need of having Shari'ah-compliant business model that depends on Islamic socio-economic tools such as Zakah, Sadaqah, and Waqf might best address the needs self-financial exclusion or the exclusion of the extremely poor in Muslim. Abdelrahman Elzahi SaaidAli is Senior Economist at the Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBi). Before joining IsDBi in 2008, Dr. Elzahi held a faculty position as Associate Professor of Economics at Sudan University of Science and Technology. Dr. Elzahi received his BSc in Banking and Finance from Sudan University of Science and Technology, MA in Economics from Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan, and PhD in Economics from the International Islamic University Malaysia. He is a co-editor of Revitalization of Waqf Economic Development, Volumes I & II, and the main author of Volumes I & II of Financial Inclusion through Islamic Finance. His current research areas include Digital Financial Inclusion Technology Adoption in achieving sustainable development.