Measuring the extent of a Social License to Operate: The influence of marine biodiversity offsets in the oil and gas sector in Western Australia

Richert, Claire; Rogers, Abbie A.; Burton, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2014.12.001

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“…This model has also been used by other authors like Richert et al (), who measured SLO for the oil and gas sector in Western Australia. They asked the population in the area different questions to evaluate whether the sector had a SLO.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Traditionally, the literature on CSR has analysed the relationships between companies and communities through an interpretation of the legitimacy theory (Dennis, Buchholtz, & Butts, ), in which companies invest in the communities in which they operate through donations and infrastructures. The aim of these investments is to strengthen their company’s reputation (Graafland & Mazereeuw‐Van der Duijn Schouten, ), as mining firms are seen as generators of negative social and environmental impacts (Moran, Lodhia, Kunz, & Huisingh, ; Richert, Rogers, & Burton, ; Rodrigo, Duran, & Arenas, ; Van der Plank, Walsh, & Behrens, ). However, obtaining community acceptance of mining projects (SLO) implies more than these investments.…”

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CEO letters: Social license to operate and community involvement in the mining industry

de‐Miguel‐Molina

Chirivella-González

García‐Ortega

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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This paper aims to analyse how the discourse of CEO letters and other factors influence community involvement and Social Licence to Operate (SLO) in the mining industry. The analysis is based on qualitative information disclosed in sustainability reports and CEO letters from 32 mining firms. Content analysis was undertaken to obtain data for the study, and then a regression analysis and a multiple correspondence analysis were used to test the hypotheses defined in the study. The results indicate that the CEO discourse influences how a firm expresses the importance of gaining its SLO, the philanthropic activities in which companies become involved and the destinations of the investments in the communities in which they operate. The results also show changes in the discourse between 2011 and 2015, which are, in part, explained by the difficult situation experienced by the sector during this period. The paper contributes to the Corporate Social Responsibility literature by integrating different theories from this field into the SLO framework. The analysis carried out and the results obtained are useful for both CEOs and Sustainability Managers, especially in managing their relationships with the communities where they operate or intend to operate.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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CEO letters: Social license to operate and community involvement in the mining industry

de‐Miguel‐Molina

Chirivella-González

García‐Ortega

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“…SLO is “inherently difficult to quantify” (Richert, Rogers, & Burton, : 121–129) and is widely regarded as ambiguous, intangible, and even metaphorical (Bice, ; Parsons & Moffat, ). It is also theoretically and operationally problematic, and has no agreed definition in the literature (Moffat et al., ).…”

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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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“…SLO has become an important part of the discourse on resources extraction among academics, community engagement practitioners, and industry executives, with a recent report ranking the need to attain a social licence as third on a list of the top 10 industry challenges (Ernst & Young, 2015; International Council on Mining and Metals, 2015b). The concept has spread internationally (with a particular focus in Australia, Canada, and the United States), being adopted beyond mining by the wind industry (Hall, 2014b), oil and gas industry (Lacey & Lamont, 2013;Richert, Rogers, & Burton, 2015), aquaculture (Leith, Ogier, & Haward, 2014), forestry (de Jong & Humphreys, 2016), bioenergy (Edwards & Lacey, 2014), agriculture (Williams & Martin, 2011), and carbon capture and storage (Dowd & James, 2014).…”

Section: Social Licence To Operate and Dialoguementioning

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“…The concept has spread internationally beyond its origins in mining and into NRM contexts, being adopted by the wind industry (Hall, 2014b), oil and natural gas development (Lacey & Lamont, 2013;Richert et al, 2015), aquaculture (Leith et al, 2014), forestry (de Jong & Humphreys, 2016), bioenergy (Edwards & Lacey, 2014), agriculture (Williams & Martin, 2011), and carbon capture and storage (Dowd & James, 2014). Definitions vary, but many reflect the notion that SLO is a dynamic level of social acceptance by stakeholders, at multiple levels in society, which may decrease at any stage of the project depending on changes in perceptions and the relationships between a company and its external stakeholders .…”

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The role of dialogue in social licence to operate in the extractives sector

Mercer-Mapstone¹

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This thesis explores the multifaceted role of dialogue in the context of social licence to operate (SLO) in the extractives sector (including mining and gas extraction). SLO is a concept that describes the ongoing and dynamic social acceptance of a resource development by local communities and other stakeholders who have the power to influence company operations. There has been discourse by extractives companies and in academia about the importance of 'meaningful dialogue' as one form of engagement that contributes to developing and maintaining a social licence. The relationship between dialogue and SLO, however, has undergone relatively little explicit, in-depth examination. I use a mixed methods approach to address this gap by exploring the role of dialogue in social licence from three standpoints: (a) a theoretical perspective, drawing on literature from multiple disciplines; (b) stakeholder engagement practitioner perspectives using qualitative, semi-structured interviews; and (c) perceptions of residents in Australian mining communities through a quantitative, social psychological survey.Through this body of work, I make five contributions to the SLO field of knowledge. The first is an interdisciplinary conceptual framework considering the role of dialogue in SLO. The second is a coherent understanding of dialogue and potential outcomes from dialogue specific to SLO. The third is a reconceptualisation of two core factors that have previously been established as central to SLO: trust and procedural fairness, bringing conceptual depth to an under-theorised field.The fourth is an analysis of how dialogue can potentially reinforce the illegitimate power asymmetries it may seek to redress with implications for stakeholder identification and engagement processes. The fifth is a model establishing empirical relationships between community members' experiences of dialogue and other factors central to SLO including company-community relationship, perceptions of procedural fairness, company-community trust, and social acceptance.I argue, based on these theoretical and empirical findings, that dialogue has a critical but complex role to play in the processes of social licence engagement. I discuss each set of results in relation to the SLO literature. Implications for theory are highlighted, pointing to areas of future research that might usefully build on current findings. Implications for industry also are drawn to propose evidence-based considerations for the design, implementation, and evaluation of current and future engagement strategies used by companies to engage stakeholders in meaningful dialogue in attempts to establish and maintain a social licence.3

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Measuring the extent of a Social License to Operate: The influence of marine biodiversity offsets in the oil and gas sector in Western Australia

Cited by 59 publications

References 21 publications

CEO letters: Social license to operate and community involvement in the mining industry

CEO letters: Social license to operate and community involvement in the mining industry

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

The role of dialogue in social licence to operate in the extractives sector

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