Celebrating Success: Natalia Yakovleva

Dr Natalia Yakovleva, Senior Lecturer in International Business Strategy at Newcastle University London and her co-author Professor Diego Vazquez-Brust, Portsmouth University have become a finalist in the Journal of World Business 2018 best phenomenon-based paper award with the article: Yakovleva, N. and Vazquez-Brust, D. A. Multinational mining enterprises and artisanal small-scale miners: From confrontation to cooperation, Journal of World Business, 53(1), pp. 52-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.08.004

The awards ceremony took place in Boston during Academy of Management 2019.

Abstract:

In many developing countries, multinational enterprises (MNEs) in mining operate alongside fast-growing communities of informal artisanal, small-scale miners. This has led to direct conflict and competition for mineral resources. This paper introduces the Salience and Institutional Analysis and Design framework as a means to analyze the MNE strategies used to address informal miners across different governance levels in the gold mining sector of Ghana and discusses the implications of these strategies for sustainability. We identify the emergence of a cooperative strategy with informal miners as a sustainable alternative to the political strategy of reliance on the state to protect tenure.