Changing societal expectations have influenced the way industries involved in the
development or extraction of natural resources conduct their operations around the world …

The concept of a “social license to operate”(SLO) was coined in the 1990s and gained
popularity as one way in which “social” considerations can be addressed in mineral …

Communities around the world have increasingly come to demand more involvement in
decision making for local mining projects, a greater share of benefits from them if they are to …

The 'social licence to operate'(SLO) is an increasingly heard term that was originally coined
to draw the attention of mining companies to stakeholder issues. Drawing on questions and …

The term “social licence to operate”(SLO), popularized in corporate usage over the last 20
years, is frequently used to refer to the level of social approval that exists in relation to the …

There are three different types of stakeholder theory, namely, descriptive, instrumental and
normative. However, there is little research on how these three stakeholder theories are …

Using a survey of the public (n= 2032) and broadacre farmers (n= 351) in South Australia
and Victoria, Australia, this research compares public and farmers' concerns regarding the …

The term 'social licence to operate', introduced in the 1990s, has increasingly been used to
describe the social and environmental standards for firms to meet. Formally, a firm with a …

This paper introduces a collection of manuscripts compiled for a special section of The
Extractive Industries and Society on the Embedding of Social Licence and Social Licence to …

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 …