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PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 51-79Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0952076715581635
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Local content development; Nigeria; oil and gas industry; social network analysis; stakeholder analysis; stakeholder theory
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This paper undertakes the first stakeholder analysis of the Nigerian oil and gas industry local content development (LCD) policy to gain a better understanding of the extent of stakeholders' interactions and how such interactions align to conditions conducive to local content development. Drawing from policy documents and semi-structured interviews, 15 stakeholder groups are identified, and seven of them categorized as key players. A social network analysis then reveals that (i) a significant proportion of relationships between key players are unidirectional; (ii) a marginal role is played by higher education institutions within the network; (iii) it is international oil companies rather than indigenous operators that exhibit global centrality within the industry network, with the former stakeholder group pivotally determining industry activities. Our findings provide a valuable first step toward the development of a polycentric framework for the appraisal of the Nigerian local content development policy.
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