Cultural accountability and business sustainability practices in emerging economies – evidence from a Sub-Saharan African extractive industry, Ghana

What is it about?

There is a widening mismatch between stakeholder expectations and the activities of environmentally sensitive companies of which continual efforts to resolve is likened to chasing shadows. We explore how cultural differences help us understand stakeholders’ lived experiences of extractive businesses’ impacts in an emerging economy context from cultural accountability perspectives. We find that the African/Ghanaian cultural values that could have compelled the extractive firms to uphold genuine accountability and business sustainability practices have been misrepresented rendering the practices ineffective, creating a gap.

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