A social licence to operate

Corporate Social Responsibility, Local Communities and the Constitution of Global Production Networks

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ID4797341
AutoresRobyn Mayes (0000-0002-8661-3638, QUT Business School GPO Box 2434 Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume15
Fascículos1
PáginasS109-S128
Data de publicação2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12090
OpenAlexW1947559950
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas32

This article contributes to the theorization of the role of informal regulation (undertaken by leading firms) in the ongoing organization of global production networks. It does so through a qualitative case study of BHP Billiton's Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation (RNO) in the rural Shire of Ravensthorpe in Western Australia. This less tangible, and to date under-researched, dimension of global production networks is foregrounded through a focus on the corporate social responsibility strategy implemented by RNO in the service of achieving and/or demonstrating a broader 'social licence to operate'. This 'licence' functions - beyond the corporation - as a legitimated and legitimating multi-scalar mechanism through which to gain and maintain access to mineral resources and thus to establish viable and ongoing global production networks. Further, this informal regulation is shown to shape social relations and qualities of place conducive to competitive global mineral extraction and to facilitate the positioning of local communities and places in mineral global production networks

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