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Access to energy : impetuses shaping business decisions, and the strategic implications for cross-sector social partnerships

Phung, Kam
Master thesis
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2012
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Abstract
This study aims to identify the underlying factors stimulating and shaping companies’ access

to energy activities, and how inter-organizational collaborations can change the rules of the

games. A review of relevant literature revealed that a gap in research approaches exists and

the field lacks theory-based knowledge. In turn, this study followed a theoretical framework

guided by institutional theory for organizations and three schools of thought in strategic

management: the resource-based view, industry-based view and institutions-based view. It

applied a single qualitative exploratory case study methodology and used semi-structured

interviews, member checks, field notes, and triangulated information to collect data. Although

the case studied a France-based multinational operating in Bangladesh, it illustrates the

dynamics of the global field of access to energy. A compilation of five sub-conclusions from

the study indicates that energy companies see access to energy is an attractive field where

energy companies they can use their core competencies to benefit society, practice strategic

corporate social responsibility and create shared value. While partnering with local

organizations is becoming a rule of the game, the rules are still fragmented and under

development, which gives collaborations the opportunity to innovate new practices, policies

and technologies and attain a competitive advantage. Resulting innovations may diffuse

beyond the collaboration and change the rules of the game if the collaboration actively

interacts and shares knowledge with third parties. Overall, this study helps fill a gap in

research approaches and adds theory-based insights to the existing knowledge base on the

topic of access to energy, as well as the umbrella topic of the corporate social responsibilitydevelopment

nexus.

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