Path dependency and social licensing

Matebesi, Sethulego

doi:10.4324/9780429431074-2

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“…5 However, these legislative and accompanying institutional frameworks reinforced established trends instead of ensuring effective local participation and ownership of mining benefits. 6 Meanwhile, a cleavage between communities and mining companies emerged, driven by community struggles over land ownership, unfair compensational practices, inequitable resource distribution, environmental degradation, mine-induced poverty, and human rights abuses. 7 As a result, popular movements seeking a just and equitable extractive industry and opposing attempts to advance the government and the extractive industry's narrow interests emerged.…”

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“…However, studies have shown how CSR and SLO enact corporate responses and strategies that are primarily aimed at ensuring industry viability and uninterrupted extraction. 9 As a result, there is ongoing concern about the multiple risks of mining and a lack of substantive improvement to local socioeconomic development and outcomes, environmental protections, and human rights. 10 Against this background, this paper analyzes the evolution of corporate response to social pressure in two cases in Jagersfontein and Koffiefontein, South Africa.…”

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Evolution of Mining Company Responses to Civil Society Mobilization in South Africa

Matebesi¹,

Twala²

2023

Enterp. Soc.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the social license to operate (SLO) are widespread global phenomena in mining-dependent countries. These self-regulated frameworks are used to ensure local ownership and as a response to conflict by mining companies. Over the past two decades, CSR in the mining industry has only been more prevalent in Africa and South Africa. Studies on CSR and SLO primarily focus on community perspectives. This paper interrogates how mining companies respond to civic social pressure by considering two cases that have experienced much conflict in South Africa. Based on eighteen in-depth interviews and an analysis of company and media reports, our case studies demonstrate that mining companies primarily use CSR and SLO to assert and maintain corporate control under the guise of promoting local ownership and sustainable mining. Such strategies provide temporary relief and gradually erode CSR and SLO’s legal and political imperatives.

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confidence: 99%