The Pebble Mine Dialogue: A case study in public engagement and the social license to operate

Holley, Elizabeth; Mitcham, Carl

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2015.11.002

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“…Other authors point out that mining firms use CSR as the strategy to achieve their SLO (Constanza, ; Holley & Mitcham, ; Prno & Slocombe, ), although there is controversy about this statement. For example, Syn () indicates that the CSR applied to mining has its limitations and that a social licence implies more than the obligations stated in CSR.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The company obtained a legal licence from the government but did not obtain a social licence from the community. The reason for rejection was that the firm did not include people living near the mine in the process of dialogue with the community, when this group was the most affected by mining operations. Increasing the number of stakeholders participating in decisions about SLO: works reveal an increase in the number of stakeholders participating in the decisions made about social licences (Holley & Mitcham, ), thus complicating the management of the issue. For example, studies show an increase in the power of groups like indigenous people and landowners (Cheshire, ; Prno & Slocombe, ; Sing, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although SLO is nowadays an important issue for the industry’s firms, the works on this topic are scarce (Costanza, ; Moran et al, ; Prno & Slocombe, ). Moreover, the majority of works on SLO are based on one or just a few cases (Cheshire, ; Costanza, ; Coumans, ; Holley & Mitcham, ; Nysten‐Haarala et al, ; Teschner, ). In this paper, we have integrated the traditional perspective with the more recent SLO framework.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

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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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“…Stakeholders and communities are usually regarded as central to establishing a SLO, although their capacity to influence is not clearly understood [3,7,10,14,31,40]. However, there is significant divergence in the literature as to how they should be defined and what role they play [8,41).…”

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“…The adoption of SLO therefore provides companies with the opportunity to not only prevent rejection by communities, and their potentially significant economic and reputational costs, but also to claim compliance or legitimacy without the approval of governments or legal bodies that enforce regulations [2,8]. SLO is therefore a significant mechanism for managing economic and reputational risk through formal and informal corporate actions [3,[9][10][11][12][13][14], while it has been claimed that companies that promote SLO have improved competitiveness and corporate reputation, ongoing resource access, experience reduced regulation, strengthened stakeholder relationships and a more positive workforce [11,[15][16].…”

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Social License to Operate and Adaptive Co-Marketing: Exchange, Social Capital and Community-Based Social Marketing

Hall

Power

2016

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Abstract:The concept of a Social License to Operate (SLO) has become increasingly important in the sustainability literature in recent years. Having its origins in the business discourse of the mining industry with respect to limiting opposition to mining projects, the notion of a social contract above and beyond legal requirements has since become applied across a number of different industries. Despite the concepts adoption confusion exists over the practices and outcomes of SLO, and particularly the nature of engagement. Given this situation it is surprising that not more attention to the role of marketing, and social marketing in particular, in operationalizing the concept. The paper discusses the potential of social marketing to contribute to SLO. Economic, political and social relations are complex in SLO and exchange is intricate in such relational environments. A community-based social marketing orientation is proposed as a means to improve exchange relations and enhance engagement. Seven models of SLO related social marketing models are discussed with community-based social marketing and adaptive co-marketing models being regarded as the most positive for the achievement of an SLO. Potential barriers to adoption of these approaches are noted.

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Sustainability management and social license to operate in the extractive industry: The cross‐cultural gap with Indigenous communities

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Saizarbitoria

Brotherton

2022

Sustainable Development

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This study aims to analyze the role of cross-cultural differences between Indigenous communities and extractive organizations with regard to the sustainability measures these organizations employ. Although Indigenous communities are important stakeholders, especially in remote areas where extractive organizations are mainly located, these organizations' relationships with Indigenous communities have been overlooked in the literature on sustainability management. Drawing on a qualitative study based on 25 semi-structured interviews with Canadian respondents, the findings show how cross-cultural issues tend to create misunderstandings that can seriously undermine organizations' social license to operate and their initiatives for sustainability. Those issues-which include cultural differences in terms of connectedness with nature, spiritual and historical attachment to a specific territory, reliance on written documents, and conception of time-are analyzed through the lenses of practitioners with significant experience in the relationships between extractive organizations and Indigenous communities. This paper proposes measures to better manage this cross-cultural gap.The study contributes to the literature on corporate sustainability by going back to the roots of this concept and by shedding more light on the importance of a specific category of stakeholders that tends to be overlooked in the managerial literature.

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The Pebble Mine Dialogue: A case study in public engagement and the social license to operate

Cited by 51 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 License to Operate and Adaptive Co-Marketing: Exchange, Social Capital and Community-Based Social Marketing

Sustainability management and social license to operate in the extractive industry: The cross‐cultural gap with Indigenous communities

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