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" Examining Oil Companies’ Conflict Resolution Strategies in Niger Delta, Oil-Producing Communities: "
Okere, Chigozie
Pitchford, Daniel B.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1105146
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TLpq2299503379
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Okere, Chigozie
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Pitchford, Daniel B.
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Examining Oil Companies’ Conflict Resolution Strategies in Niger Delta, Oil-Producing Communities:\ Okere, ChigoziePitchford, Daniel B.
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Northcentral University
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2019
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2019
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D.B.A.
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252
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Oil exploration in the Niger Delta is a core business that includes international oil companies such as Agip, Chevron, Shell and Texaco in participation. The exploration process has led to environmental damage to the ecosystem and exacerbated tensions between local communities and the oil companies. Due to the persistence conflicts, oil exploration business in the region has reduced despite the different resolution strategies used by oil companies to diminish oil exploration-related conflict. The specific problem was that further understanding of how to improve oil exploration businesses’ conflict resolution strategies, and diminish the subsequent oil exploration-related conflict and community violence was needed. The purpose of this qualitative interpretative phenomenological study was to provide an understanding of how to improve oil exploration businesses’ conflict resolution strategies and diminish subsequent oil exploration-related conflict. Face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were used to generate stakeholders’ lived experiences of how to improve oil exploration-related conflict resolution strategies in the Niger Delta. A purposive sample (pseudonyms and contact information) of three key groups of stakeholders (local chiefs, clan heads, and oil company manager) from two oil- producing communities (Gbaramatu and Okerenkoko) in the Niger Delta were obtained. Seven participants were interviewed (two local chiefs, four clan heads, and one oil company manager) using the semi-structured interview. Interview and data obtained were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach. Results revealed that conflict resolution strategies and oil exploration businesses could improve with the full participation of the host communities (stakeholders). Future research might include an investigation to employ quantitative methods using the Delphi approach through a questionnaire, which could help to determine a number of factors that influence oil exploration-related conflict.
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Management
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Organizational behavior
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Sub Saharan Africa studies
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