Materiality reflects an organization's significant social, economic, and environmental impacts, together with their influence on stakeholders' assessments and decisions.The Global Reporting Initiative's G4 Guidelines describe a four-step process for an organization to follow to determine the specific content to be included in its social responsibility report. However, there are no recommendations regarding what types of strategies should be used for each social issue depending on their materiality.The main aims of this paper are to explain the material issues and to identify what creating shared value (CSV) strategies can be applied to address each social issue according to a materiality analysis. For this purpose, a sample of 27 mining companies is obtained. Based on secondary sources, a content analysis is prepared. The resulting framework provides CSV theory with a guide to what CSV strategy is recommended according to the location of each social issue in the materiality matrix.
The purpose of this paper is to understand how a mining company earns social license to operate (SLO) by taking action to gain legitimacy and build trust by presenting a comparative case study analysis of two mining operations in Peru. The analysis was qualitative in nature and was complemented by insights gleaned from supplementary interviews with key informants and the emerging literature on SLO, legitimacy, and trust. The findings revealed a model with a total of five components to earn SLOthree for legitimacy (pragmatic, moral, and cognitive legitimacy) and two for trust (decision-maker factors and situational factors).
The purpose of this paper is to understand how the context in mining projects influences the corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy to earn a social licence to operate (SLO). This paper also presents a comparative case study analysis of four mining operations in Peru. This analysis was qualitative in nature and is complemented with insights from supplementary key informant interviews and the emerging literature on SLO and CSR. The findings show that mining projects with a complex-unstable context take considerable effort and a longer process to earn an SLO. In this situation, it is not recommended that companies use either a defensive strategy or compliance. Instead, the company must use strategic and managerial strategies to reduce social conflicts. Also, when the context is low or of moderate uncertainty, it is preferable to use strategic and managerial strategies in order to gain an SLO.
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