Appendix
C—Interview Questions (Phases 2 and 3)
Ethics Committee’s reference code: 15/016
Semi-structured Interview Questions
Oil and Gas Social Investment Experts
Thanks for agreeing to participate in this research! You can answer the questions
below as fully or briefly as you wish, and you can ignore any that you’d rather not
answer. I am really interested to hear about your perceptions and experiences of Oil
and Gas social investments. If you would like to discuss the questions outlined below
via a conference call before the interview takes place, please do not hesitate to ask.
You can email the researcher at cosra@student.otago.ac.nz and set up a day and time
to meet online via Skype or any other free of charge video call software. Again, you
are under no obligation to answer any of the following questions.
1. I would be grateful for the following demographic information:
Your job position/your ethnicity(ies)/your age/your gender/how long you have
been working with O&G Social Investment/where your office is based/where
the Social programmes are based?
2. Do you believe the O&G industry is accountable for promoting and implementing Social Investment where they operate? Why or why not?
3. Which was the most rewarding social investment you have ever helped
implement. Why?
4. Have any of the company’s Social Projects experienced any difficulties? If so,
what were they? What could have helped you/ your team solve them?
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Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance,
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C—Interview Questions (Phases 2 and 3)
Ethics Committee’s reference code: 15/016
Semi-structured Interview Questions
Oil and Gas Social Investment Experts
Thanks for agreeing to participate in this research! You can answer the questions
below as fully or briefly as you wish, and you can ignore any that you’d rather not
answer. I am really interested to hear about your perceptions and experiences of Oil
and Gas social investments. If you would like to discuss the questions outlined below
via a conference call before the interview takes place, please do not hesitate to ask.
You can email the researcher at cosra@student.otago.ac.nz and set up a day and time
to meet online via Skype or any other free of charge video call software. Again, you
are under no obligation to answer any of the following questions.
1. I would be grateful for the following demographic information:
Your job position/your ethnicity(ies)/your age/your gender/how long you have
been working with O&G Social Investment/where your office is based/where
the Social programmes are based?
2. Do you believe the O&G industry is accountable for promoting and implementing Social Investment where they operate? Why or why not?
3. Which was the most rewarding social investment you have ever helped
implement. Why?
4. Have any of the company’s Social Projects experienced any difficulties? If so,
what were they? What could have helped you/ your team solve them?
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
R. Costa Camões Rabello, Understandings of Social Investment in the Oil and Gas Sector,
Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6556-8
149