Social License and Publicness

Sale, Hillary A.

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“…Unethical and illegal behaviours undermine corporate legitimacy, credibility, and trust (Sale, 2019). This perception is commonly shared across countries, transcending economic, political, or legal climates established by different cultures (Payne et al, 1997).…”

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Context Matters Less Than Leadership in Preventing Unethical Behaviour in International Business

Antunez,

Ramalho,

Marques

2023

J Bus Ethics

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This study empirically tests a sequential mediation model that links ethical leadership with employees’ unethical behaviour. The corruption index for countries is used as the moderator, because it represents both the instrumental ethical climate and the employee displacement of responsibility embedded in society’s ethical standards. A total of 175 participants comprising 41 teams (134 dyads) across 13 countries participated in a dyadic two-wave survey. The findings show that ethical leadership has an indirect influence on the avoidance of unethical behaviour by reducing the instrumental ethical climate and by negating the displacement of individuals’ responsibility. In addition, the results also show that this process is not sensitive to the countries’ corruption levels. Such findings suggest that organizations are less prone to adjust their ethical standards to the environment than is usually expected. Accordingly, ethical leaders of MNCs may be instrumental in counteracting any corruptive pressure in the social environment, and likewise, non-ethical leaders may be a contributing factor to fostering corrupt organizations in a society that otherwise values ethical principles in business.

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confidence: 99%

Context Matters Less Than Leadership in Preventing Unethical Behaviour in International Business

Antunez,

Ramalho,

Marques

2023

J Bus Ethics

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“…Having a social license to operate means having legitimacy from internal stakeholders and outside stakeholders, and the greater community. Most importantly, it means identifying a business model as a proper social institution: beyond economic and market considerations, every business model is a social entity and thus subject to public accountability and public control (Sale 2019;Melé and Armengou 2015). Social license means also going beyond laws and regulations positioned within the legal system since it is related to credibility and social permission practices.…”

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“…taking advantage 6 Boutilier and Thomson speak of 'stakeholder networks' to include many actors that are affected or affect business models beyond and above specific and local communities, such as international human rights activists and others (Boutilier and Thomson 2011, 2-3). of gaps in existing regulations, by the part of companies such as Facebook or Uber (Pollman 2019), while others have explored how the failure to account for the inherently public nature of corporate actions of private business models such as Uberregardless of whether an existing 'legal' license exists -can result in the loss of 'social' license (Sale 2019). Finally, others have highlighted the need to earn a social license for big data initiatives during the pandemic (Shaw and et al 2020) or have specifically introduced the issue of SLO in the governance and responsible management of the risk of digital corporations, but without providing straightforward suggestions on how to implement in concrete terms SLO in Big Techs' proactive strategic business models (Verbin 2020, Chap.…”

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Big Tech Corporations and AI: A Social License to Operate and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in the Digital Age

Capasso

Umbrello

2023

Philosophical Studies Series

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The pervasiveness of AI-empowered technologies across multiple sectors has led to drastic changes concerning traditional social practices and how we relate to one another. Moreover, market-driven Big Tech corporations are now entering public domains, and concerns have been raised that they may even influence public agenda and research. Therefore, this chapter focusses on assessing and evaluating what kind of business model is desirable to incentivise the AI for Social Good (AI4SG) factors. In particular, the chapter explores the implications of this discourse for SDG #17 (global partnership) and how this goal may encourage Big Tech corporations to strengthen multi-stakeholder partnerships that promote effective public-private and civil society partnerships and the meaningful co-presence of non-market and market values. In doing so, the chapter proposes an analysis of the sociological notion of 'social license to operate' (SLO) elaborated in the mining and extractive industry literature and introduces it into the discourse on sustainable digital business models and responsible management of risks in the digital age. This serves to explore how such a social license can be adopted as a practice by digital business models to foster trust, collaboration and coordination among different actors -including AI researchers and initiatives, institutions and civil society at large -for the support of SDGs interrelated targets and goals.

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“…REs too need a moral cover to protect their social capital—a social license informally allowing a business to operate (e.g., 2021; Gunningham, Kagan and Thornton 2004)—to be able to negotiate deals. EA activity that the public finds unattractive, such as transactions designed to evade law enforcement, erodes stakeholder perceptions of the RE's trustworthiness and legitimacy (Sale 2019). In turn, erosion of a RE's social license can make negotiations with capital investors difficult or even increase attempts at government regulation or targeting by politicians outside the EA exchange (e.g., Zif 1980).…”

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The Marketing System of Exchange Between Regulatory and Political Entrepreneurs Engaging in Arbitrage

Zeiss

Carlson

2021

Journal of Macromarketing

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After receiving cease and desist letters in 2018, Bird strategically developed hospitable relationships with politicians that allowed the scooter-sharing firm to continue operating. Bird acts as a regulatory entrepreneur in seeking unfair legal treatment and the politicians brokering the legal deal as political entrepreneurs. The business models for unfairly changing or applying law represents entrepreneurial arbitrage. A mixed methods approach examines the structure of relationships between regulatory and political entrepreneurs through the Bootleggers and Baptists conceptual lens. Like Bird solving traffic and pollution problems for city leaders, Baptists served as a moral cover for illegal liquor vendors. Guided by a general systems theory, it is found that the micro-level, relational exchanges both assign value to as well as uses intellectual commodities to establish expectations guiding ongoing exchanges. Therefore, a marketing system is uncovered. This research also finds relationships structured by favors in sharp contrast to political markets governed by threats.

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Social License and Publicness

Cited by 4 publications

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Context Matters Less Than Leadership in Preventing Unethical Behaviour in International Business

Context Matters Less Than Leadership in Preventing Unethical Behaviour in International Business

Big Tech Corporations and AI: A Social License to Operate and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in the Digital Age

The Marketing System of Exchange Between Regulatory and Political Entrepreneurs Engaging in Arbitrage

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