Doing the Social in Social License

Rooney, David; Leach, Joan; Ashworth, Peta

doi:10.1080/02691728.2014.922644

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“…It is also theoretically and operationally problematic, and has no agreed definition in the literature (Moffat et al, 2016). Rooney, Leach, and Ashworth (2014) observe that, "being good at doing what is needed to create an SLO is not easy and not done particularly well much of the time." SLO is also inherently impermanentand requires continual evaluation and renewal involving reaffirmation and confirmation that stakeholder expectations are being met and company/industry undertakings are being adhered to (Moffat et al, 2016: 482).…”

Section: Does "Social License" Answer the Need For Smarter Commissionmentioning

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“Social licence to operate” and the human services: A pathway to smarter commissioning?

Butcher

2018

Aust J Public Adm

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Externalised service provision is now an embedded feature of Australia's service delivery architecture. However, the lessons drawn from two decades of contracted service delivery suggest that “competition” is an imperfect platform for the delivery of public services, especially where issues of trust in government come into play. Could the concept of a “social license to operate” (SLO), which has been in use in the natural resources sector for over two decades, help to facilitate the conferral of greater trust, credibility and legitimacy upon governments, and externalised service providers in social policy spaces?

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Section: Does "Social License" Answer the Need For Smarter Commissionmentioning

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“Social licence to operate” and the human services: A pathway to smarter commissioning?

Butcher

2018

Aust J Public Adm

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“…The SLO results from a complex process comprised of a set of relationships and negotiations between stakeholder groups and companies. Each stakeholder group can hold different views about what is important, what is true, or what is a major concern (Rooney et al, ). The SLO process is essentially determined by stakeholder engagement procedures and dependent on stakeholder identification and prioritization measures, i.e., to identify stakeholder groups for a business that could grant or secure the SLO (Prno, ; Demuijnck & Fasterling, ).…”

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Integrating Eco‐Innovations and Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development and a Social License to Operate

Provasnek

Sentić

Schmid

2017

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Eco‐innovations of corporations are seen to contribute to the mitigation of negative impacts on the natural environment. However, despite environmental gains, some eco‐innovations fail in the marketplace while others succeed. We propose a framework that reflects the connection between eco‐innovations and their social license to operate. Corporations can increase the market success of eco‐innovations if they can gain a social license to operate based on fair and trustworthy stakeholder engagement shaped by the context of their societal environment. Eco‐innovations can be transformed following management steps of an internal and external evaluation, the analysis of companies' interactional status, and conformation activities for the introduction of sustainability‐oriented innovations. We conclude that the successful transformation of eco‐innovations requires the inclusion of social factors, such as stakeholders' multiple claims, to secure a social license to operate and thereby even reduce costs by avoiding sketchy corporate social responsibility measures. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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“…Meaningful community engagement and dialogue is central to the development of social license (Rooney et al 2014). Social license is dynamic, typically requiring time and effort to obtain, and can be challenged or lost as community values and perceptions change over time.…”

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Social license through citizen science: a tool for marine conservation

Kelly¹,

Fleming²,

Pecl³

et al. 2019

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Active and meaningful public engagement is necessary to foster informed and publicly accepted natural resource management. Citizen science presents an important avenue by which to achieve such engagement. Citizen science is the active involvement of the public in science to address scientific questions, often of common interest or concern, by collecting and analyzing data, and publishing and communicating science via diverse outlets. Here, we explore whether and how citizen science can also play a role in generating social license for marine conservation, using European marine citizen science as a case study. Social license is a concept that reflects community views and expectations on the use and management of natural resources. To date, social license in the marine space has largely focused on public perceptions of industrial and extractive uses of the marine environment, and limited research has explored social license for conservation. We highlight important linkages between social license and citizen science that can work synergistically to support conservation. We use in-depth qualitative interviews and a semiquantitative online survey of marine citizen science coordinators to investigate how citizen science can play a role in enhancing social license and the mechanisms through which it can occur. Our findings indicate that citizen science can enhance social license by improving ocean literacy and marine citizenship. We demonstrate that marine citizen science has considerable potential to generate and develop social license for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.Ecology and Society 24(1): 16 https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss1/art16/

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Doing the Social in Social License

Cited by 56 publications

References 13 publications

“Social licence to operate” and the human services: A pathway to smarter commissioning?

“Social licence to operate” and the human services: A pathway to smarter commissioning?

Integrating Eco‐Innovations and Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development and a Social License to Operate

Social license through citizen science: a tool for marine conservation

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