Corporate social responsibility as reputation management strategy in the mining sector in Ghana

Abstract

The mining industry is an important sector of Ghana‟s economy and has made significant contribution of over $ 5 billion Foreign Direct Investment since mining sector reforms in the 1990s. In spite of the contributions, mining as an extractive industry has been buffeted with criticism and tagged as one of the most socially and environmentally destructive, thereby given it a negative reputation. However, the potential of CSR to act as reputation management strategy to moderate the negative reputation has largely been unexplored in the mining sector particularly in Ghana. This paper therefore examines corporate social responsibility as a strategy that could be used to enhance the industry‟s reputation in the extractive sector.