Corporate Social Responsibilities of Oil Transnational Companies, Host Communities and Environmental Dynamics in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a way of given back to the immediate community of the organization. This study therefore analyzed the corporate social responsibility strategies of oil transnational corporations in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria. Data for the study were collected using the library research method (secondary data). Social exchange and frustration aggression theories were applied to guide the study. Study showed that the practice of corporate social responsibility by oil transnational in the Niger Delta were not good enough and as such have not made significant impact in positively affecting the lives of the people and the social and economic development of the host communities. It was recommended among others that the community relations department should be created out of the public relations departments of these oil transnationals companies which would be solely responsible for matters affecting the host communities, especially where such department does not exist; the oil transnational corporations should strive to necessarily seek the full participation of host communities in its corporate social responsibility projects to enable them gain more acceptance from the people whom the projects are meant for; that the oil transnational corporations should engage in projects that have direct impact on the people.