Robert G Boutilier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4499702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert G Boutilier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert G |
| FAMILY NAME | Boutilier |
| SIGNATURE | BOUTILIER R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5345-356X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From metaphor to political spin
The Social License
Raiding the honey pot
Frequently asked questions about the social licence to operate
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 comments voiced in 50 events attended by approximately 900 managers, consultants, academics and students, this article employs the rhetoric device of ‘frequently asked questions’ (FAQs) to articulate conceptual and socio-political issues associated with the term. T…
The Development of Dynamic System Reasoning
This article concerns abilities that allow young persons to grasp essential features of open or ‘negentropic’ systems and relates these abilities to success and failure on measures of concrete and formal operational thought. Attention is focused first on the ability of 96 subjects between the ages of 8 and 18 to comprehend the feedback and emergent features characteristic of dynamic systems and, second, on the relations between these developing c…
Crises in the Two Social Psychologies
Sociological social psychology (SSP) and psychological social psychology (PSP) have both generated literatures of self-criticism and disciplinary crisis. These respective literatures have quite different origins. Critiques of sociology in general have been applied to SSP in particular. In PSP the crisis began with methodological and ethical issues. An analysis of the two ensuing crisis literatures reveals a common concern with (a) a perceived ten…
Raiding the honey pot
From metaphor to political spin
Crises in the Two Social Psychologies
Sociological social psychology (SSP) and psychological social psychology (PSP) have both generated literatures of self-criticism and disciplinary crisis. These respective literatures have quite different origins. Critiques of sociology in general have been applied to SSP in particular. In PSP the crisis began with methodological and ethical issues. An analysis of the two ensuing crisis literatures reveals a common concern with (a) a perceived ten…
Crises in the Two Social Psychologies
Sociological social psychology (SSP) and psychological social psychology (PSP) have both generated literatures of self-criticism and disciplinary crisis. These respective literatures have quite different origins. Critiques of sociology in general have been applied to SSP in particular. In PSP the crisis began with methodological and ethical issues. An analysis of the two ensuing crisis literatures reveals a common concern with (a) a perceived ten…
The Development of Dynamic System Reasoning
This article concerns abilities that allow young persons to grasp essential features of open or ‘negentropic’ systems and relates these abilities to success and failure on measures of concrete and formal operational thought. Attention is focused first on the ability of 96 subjects between the ages of 8 and 18 to comprehend the feedback and emergent features characteristic of dynamic systems and, second, on the relations between these developing c…
Frequently asked questions about the social licence to operate
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 comments voiced in 50 events attended by approximately 900 managers, consultants, academics and students, this article employs the rhetoric device of ‘frequently asked questions’ (FAQs) to articulate conceptual and socio-political issues associated with the term. T…
Raiding the honey pot
The Social License
From metaphor to political spin
Law (3 works) · Mining and Resource Management (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Corporate Law and Human Rights (2 works) · Criticism (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works)