20, March 2025

Corporate Social Responsibility in Ivory Coast. Case of CIE Ivory Coast (The Hydroelectric Sector)

VOLUME-11; ISSUE-3; MAR-2025

Author(s): 1 Adouko Kouah Adjobi Romuald Paulin , 2 Wang Jianmin, 3 Teye Jonathan ,

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1Dr. , School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, China

2Professor, School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, China

3Dr., School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, China

DOIs:10.2015/IJIRMF/202503006     |     Paper ID: IJIRMF202503006


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The notion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a well-researched issue, however studies to this day tend to focus on the Western setting, or, if focusing on other continents, employ the definitions and categories defined in research on CSR in the Western world. There is an increasing belief that local context has a significant impact on the interpretation, presence, and implementation of CSR. In terms of CSR, Ivory Coast remains an understudied country, with little or no statistics on the number of enterprises involved or the local definition of the phrase. This piece of work adopts a content-based approach while also attempting to provide a new framework for studying CSR in a developing country (Ivory Coast). Corporate social responsibility is a relatively recent notion in Ivory Coast. As a result, the majority of large corporations lack established CSR policy or a team dedicated to corporate social responsibility operations. In Ivory Coast, very few corporations have implemented CSR programs. CIE (Company Ivorian of Electricity), Ivory Coast's monopolistic hydroelectricity company, is one of these companies. This research report assesses the practice of CSR in Ivory Coast. More specifically, it seeks to examine the hydropower sector. As a case study, we will investigate and assess CIE's CSR efforts and policies in the Mape and Bamendjing local communities, which surround two of its reservoir dams. The report also investigates the challenges of the local population living in these towns, their hopes for CIE, the type of CSR policies CIE has in place, and its impact on the people in these two local communities. Ndzi Enestine conducted interviews with forty participants from villages surrounding the Mape and Bamendjing reservoirs to gather data for this study. The study's findings show that CIE CSR policies and practices have been ineffective and narrow in these areas. Considering only these two locations, CIE may be considered as not engaging in any CSR efforts at all. Locals in these communities have high expectations for CIE interns to promote sustainable development. However, the company's income is unaffected by the low or non-existence of CSR policies and operations in these communities because it has a monopoly in the Ivory Coast market.

Corporate social responsibility, Ivory Coast, CIE Hydroelectric Company Dams, Ivory Coast Institutional Context, Emerging Economy.

Adouko Kouah Adjobi Romuald Paulin,  Wang Jianmin,  Teye Jonathan (2025); Corporate Social Responsibility in Ivory Coast. Case of CIE Ivory Coast (The Hydroelectric Sector), International Journal for Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Field, ISSN(O): 2455-0620, Vol-11, Issue-3, Pp.35-49.          Available on –   https://www.ijirmf.com/

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