The study focuses on residents who live near a polluting industrial complex. The results show that each corporate political activity (CPA) strategy adopted by corporatins in a Spanish petrochemical complex influences citizens’ health risk perception in a different way. Finally, we offer theoretical and practical implications of citizens’ health risk perception in a context with corporate political involvement.
Citizens’ legimitation of multi-stakeholder governance models is an important topic of research in the literature focused on the relationship between industry and society, in particular in those contexts in which corporations adopt a political role and social trust is an outstanding construct.
The relationship between corporations and society is of practical and academic interest. In this context, the important role of local environmental organisations representing community members interests is a key question to analyze.
In this research article two forms of corporate political involvement are related to social trust, so-calles citizens’s trust in coporations of a petrochemical complex.
This research article focuses on the relationships between firms’ commitment to community and residents’ risk perception. This article is related to the Business and Society and Risk Resarch literatures.
This article research focuses on the effects on residents’ behaviour of cognitive appraisals and affective responses in the context of citizens who live close to a pertrochemical complex.
This research focuses on the main antecedent factors that influence the need for information regarding environmental hazards derived from the activity of corporations in a petrochemical complex.
This research article focuses on the possible relationship between environmental management systems (EMS) and citizens’ perceptions in the context of a petrochemical complex.
It has been written by the following Associate Professor at Jaume I University: Miguel Ángel López-Navarro, Vicent Tortosa-Edo and Jaume Llorens-Monzonís.
