Community relations in the global mining industry: exploring the internal dimensions of externally orientated work

Kemp, Deanna

doi:10.1002/csr.195

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“…Set in context then, in contrast to the protracted history of CSR discourse in general, dedicated research on tourism CSR is at a relatively early stage. However, in terms of the volume of recent work, the tourism sector compares favourably with other high-impact sectors such as construction (Holton et al 2008), mining (Kemp 2010), and forestry (Mikkilä and Toppine 2008) where the relationship between business, society and environment has, admittedly, been a much longer-standing concern.…”

Section: Tourism and Csr: Mapping The Intellectual Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and corporate social responsibility: A critical review and research agenda

Coles

Fenclova

Dinan

2013

Tourism Management Perspectives

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This paper presents a critical review of recent progress in research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in tourism management, and possible directions for future research. In comparison to a well-established, empirically-grounded body of knowledge dealing with other sectors of economic activity, dedicated research on CSR in travel and tourism is at a relatively early stage. In the past decade, CSR has been the primary subject of a limited number of studies from a small academic community of practice. Studies have primarily focused on three macro-level topic areas: implementation; the economic rationale for acting more responsibly; and the social relations of CSR. Interest in responsibility as an approach to tourism governance and management is nevertheless growing as several policy prescriptions and corporate vision statements reveal. For research to progress further and to match these ambitions, greater critical engagement with mainstream thinking on CSR is required as well as greater conceptual and methodological sophistication.

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Section: Tourism and Csr: Mapping The Intellectual Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and corporate social responsibility: A critical review and research agenda

Coles

Fenclova

Dinan

2013

Tourism Management Perspectives

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“…While the two concepts interact substantially, they are distinct, with the social licence perhaps best conceptualized as one means of operationalizing or realizing commitments to corporate social responsibility which embody particular principles, philosophies and practices [12]. Since the late 19th century, for instance, Australian mining companies' corporate social responsibility transformed from concentration on human resources practices and relatively limited public disclosure [13] to comprehensive environmental, social and governance programming backed by progressively professionalised staff [14]. Studies suggest that CSR in Australian mining has existed in one form or another for over 100 years [13,15,16].…”

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What Gives You a Social Licence? An Exploration of the Social Licence to Operate in the Australian Mining Industry

Bice

2014

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This article analyses the ways in which major, multinational mining companies operating within Australia understand sustainable development and articulate their "social licence to operate". The article contributes a novel perspective to ongoing discussions about the social licence by exploring the ways in which leading Australian mining companies define and assert their social licences through sustainable development discourse. A content and discourse analysis of 18 sustainability reports across a four year period, supplemented by qualitative interview data, draws out these issues. While most companies use these reports to confirm beliefs in the necessity of a social licence, the ways in which the licence is specifically defined and maintained are not generally made explicit. Additionally, key theoretical criteria required for a social licence, such as free, prior and informed consent, appear to be overlooked. In conclusion, the article suggests ways in which criteria for a social licence within the mining industry could be defined more clearly and raises consequent questions to shape future research.

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“…Energy and mining corporations, for example, commonly organize 'town hall' meetings where individual citizens and (functional/formally organized) stakeholders are free to come ask questions about corporate policies at a specific time and place (e.g., Kemp 2010;Wei-Skillern 2004). Such 'physical' corporate arenas of citizenship, however, are fairly limited in terms of the number of individual citizens who can participate: for their location and timing will often preclude the involvement of many potentially interested citizens.…”

Section: Corporate Arenas Of Citizenship and Social Mediamentioning

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Corporations and Citizenship Arenas in the Age of Social Media

2013

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Little attention has been paid to the importance of social media in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature. This deficit is redressed in the present paper through utilizing the notion of 'citizenship arenas' to identify three dynamics in social media-augmented corporate-society relations. First, we note that social mediaaugmented 'corporate arenas of citizenship' are constructed by individual corporations in an effort to address CSR issues of specific importance thereto, and are populated by individual citizens as well as (functional/formally organized) stakeholders. Second, we highlight that, within social media-augmented 'public arenas of citizenship', individual citizens are empowered, relative to corporations and their (functional/formally organized) stakeholders, when it comes to creating, debating, and publicizing, CSRrelevant issues. Third, we posit that information and communication technology corporations possess specific, and potentially very important, capacities, when it comes to creating, or helping construct, public arenas of citizenship from within which individual citizens can influence their broader political-economic environment. Following this, we discuss how social media can contribute to 'dysfunctions' as well as 'progressions' in corporate-society relations, and conclude with a number of suggestions for future research.

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Community relations in the global mining industry: exploring the internal dimensions of externally orientated work

Cited by 136 publications

References 31 publications

Tourism and corporate social responsibility: A critical review and research agenda

Tourism and corporate social responsibility: A critical review and research agenda

What Gives You a Social Licence? An Exploration of the Social Licence to Operate in the Australian Mining Industry

Corporations and Citizenship Arenas in the Age of Social Media

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