A case study of shell at Sakhalin: having a whale of a time?
This is a case study on the world's largest oil and gas project, at the Sakhalin Islands, Russia. Shell is the key promoter of this project. The case highlights the sustainability challenges that Shell faced when working on the mega‐project. By their very nature, all such projects involve disru...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:wly:corsem:v:15:y:2008:i:3:p:173-185 2023-05-15T18:08:47+02:00 A case study of shell at Sakhalin: having a whale of a time? Subhasis Ray https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.170 unknown https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.170 article ftrepec https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.170 2020-12-04T13:41:40Z This is a case study on the world's largest oil and gas project, at the Sakhalin Islands, Russia. Shell is the key promoter of this project. The case highlights the sustainability challenges that Shell faced when working on the mega‐project. By their very nature, all such projects involve disruptions in the environmental and social fabric of the project site. NGOs often take up these issues and create international headlines, bringing pressure on the management team. The Russian government also changed its stand over a period of time. While many of these issues are valid in their own way, they often create managerial dilemmas. Traditional management approaches to community development and environmental conservation fell short of stakeholder expectations at Sakhalin. The issue of saving around 100 endangered whales put a cloud of doubt over this $20 billion project. The case highlights strategic issues involved in crafting sustainability strategies at mega‐projects, possible pitfalls and the challenge of balancing project execution and stakeholder commitments against an unstable political backdrop. As Shell plans to start many exploration projects in bio‐diversity rich parts of the world, the Sakhalin project acts as a pilot to and reminder of social responsibility challenges to big multi‐nationals. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakhalin RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 15 3 173 185 |
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This is a case study on the world's largest oil and gas project, at the Sakhalin Islands, Russia. Shell is the key promoter of this project. The case highlights the sustainability challenges that Shell faced when working on the mega‐project. By their very nature, all such projects involve disruptions in the environmental and social fabric of the project site. NGOs often take up these issues and create international headlines, bringing pressure on the management team. The Russian government also changed its stand over a period of time. While many of these issues are valid in their own way, they often create managerial dilemmas. Traditional management approaches to community development and environmental conservation fell short of stakeholder expectations at Sakhalin. The issue of saving around 100 endangered whales put a cloud of doubt over this $20 billion project. The case highlights strategic issues involved in crafting sustainability strategies at mega‐projects, possible pitfalls and the challenge of balancing project execution and stakeholder commitments against an unstable political backdrop. As Shell plans to start many exploration projects in bio‐diversity rich parts of the world, the Sakhalin project acts as a pilot to and reminder of social responsibility challenges to big multi‐nationals. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. |
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