Squeezing Psychological Freedom in Corporate–Community Engagement

This article analyses the ethics of how community engagement and dialogue as applied by a mining corporation in Chile led to erosion of the community’s psychological freedom despite being aligned with best practice. This article details how a mining company squeezed the psychological freedom of the...

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Main Author: Maher, Rajiv (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 160, Issue: 4, Pages: 1047-1066
Further subjects:B Ethical dialogue
B Community conflict-engagement
B Co-optation
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