2018
DOI: 10.1002/csr.1679
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Building legitimacy and trust between a mining company and a community to earn social license to operate: A Peruvian case study

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to understand how a mining company earns social license to operate (SLO) by taking action to gain legitimacy and build trust by presenting a comparative case study analysis of two mining operations in Peru. The analysis was qualitative in nature and was complemented by insights gleaned from supplementary interviews with key informants and the emerging literature on SLO, legitimacy, and trust. The findings revealed a model with a total of five components to earn SLOthree for legitim… Show more

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“…A lo largo de la literatura se ha observado que las dimensiones de legitimidad más estudiadas ha sido la pragmática, cognitiva y moral. Por ejemplo, Saenz (2019) indica que entre los factores para que una empresa minera obtenga licencia social para operar están estas tres dimensiones. Sin embargo, en nuestro análisis las dimensiones de legitimidad organizativa más importantes son la regulativa, cognitiva y moral.…”
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“…A lo largo de la literatura se ha observado que las dimensiones de legitimidad más estudiadas ha sido la pragmática, cognitiva y moral. Por ejemplo, Saenz (2019) indica que entre los factores para que una empresa minera obtenga licencia social para operar están estas tres dimensiones. Sin embargo, en nuestro análisis las dimensiones de legitimidad organizativa más importantes son la regulativa, cognitiva y moral.…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
“…Trust does not need to be explicitly represented. In many situations it is considered an implicit concept that can replace formal contracts (Saenz, 2019;Zucker, 1986). With the presence of trust, meeting the level of service becomes expected and taken for granted.…”
Section: Trustmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…SLO was originally proposed by the United Nations as a way to ensure that (predominantly) extractive industries obtain ‘free, prior, and informed consent' from local indigenous people, thus recognising their prior rights to their lands and resources. The term emerged in the mid‐1990s in the mining industry as a response to social risk and is related to the concept of social legitimacy (Saenz, ).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%