Case Name :      Cameco in Kyrgyzstan: Corporate Social Responsibility Abroad

Authors :           Pratima Bansal, John Scarfe, Russell Johnston

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            903M63

Discipline :        Social Enterprise

Case Length :    21 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

Based in Saskatoon, Canada, Cameco was the world’s largest uranium mining company. It had developed its policy for corporate social responsibility in northern Saskatchewan, where it had its major mining operations and where there was a large indigenous population of Cree and Dene Indians. Centers on whether the same corporate social responsibility policy can be applied to the company’s joint venture with the Kyrgyzstan government to operate a gold mine in eastern Kyrgyzstan. Complicating the decision is a chemical spill that had occurred several months before; relations with citizens in nearby communities were at an all-time low. The joint venture’s vice-president of human resources and corporate relations must decide which of the programs might be successfully implemented in Kyrgyzstan, what new programs might need to be developed, and how best to communicate company policy to the local community.