Anglo American sponsored a book launch of Multinationals in their Communities by Ian Jones, Michael Pollitt and David Bek at their headquarters in Carlton House Terrace.

Multinationals in their Communities:
A Social Capital Approach to Corporate Citizenship Projects
(Published by Palgrave)
by Ian W. Jones, Michael G. Pollitt and David Bek
Multinationals can impact significantly on the quality of social relations within the communities in which they operate. A key way they do this is through their corporate citizenship projects, funded as part of their corporate social responsibility programmes. This book analyzes the nature and effectiveness of these projects using the theoretical and empirical insights of recent social capital literature. The authors demonstrate how multinationals can play a more significant role in building socially successful communities in developing countries.

About the authors

IAN W. JONES is a Management Lecturer at Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK, a Fellow of St Andrews Management Institute, UK, and DBA Research Director at the Edinburgh Business School, UK. He, together with Michael Pollitt, leads the Ethics, Regulation and Globalisation project at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, UK where they are both Research Associates.


MICHAEL G. POLLITT is a Reader in Business Economics at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics and Management at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK.



DAVID BEK is a freelance research consultant specialising in economic, social and development geographies. Since 2004 he has conducted research on corporate citizenship at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, UK.