Social development will not deliver social licence to operate for the extractive sector

作者: Bruce Harvey

DOI: 10.1016/J.EXIS.2013.11.001

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摘要: In the past decade extractive sector has embraced social responsibility, and more recently companies have extended this to include contributions development. A growing number of industry-sponsored, consultancy academic publications describe how can contribute economic development host communities. However, despite its good intentions frequent focus on confronting issues, approach is fundamentally flawed. It frequently fails communicate intended audiences it asks adopt policies, such as ‘contributing reducing poverty’, which do not sit comfortably with remit, capabilities business imperatives sector. This article argues that encourages company priorities behaviours blur appropriate boundaries between firms, governments communities; may lead unintended consequences ultimately result in poorer community outcomes, thence dilution ‘social licence’ eagerly sought. An argument made for limiting ‘outreach’ focusing ‘in-reach’, whereby prioritise activities aimed at behavioural (and consequently, attitudinal) change across whole their organisation secure trust support from

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