2016
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2976-7
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The Social License to Operate

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“…When society's expectations are not fulfilled, that is, a company's actual or perceived behaviour is not in accordance with social values and norms, a breach of contract exists and a legitimacy gap may develop. Recently, legitimacy and the social contract have been discussed under the construct of the "social license to operate" (Demuijnck and Fasterling, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When society's expectations are not fulfilled, that is, a company's actual or perceived behaviour is not in accordance with social values and norms, a breach of contract exists and a legitimacy gap may develop. Recently, legitimacy and the social contract have been discussed under the construct of the "social license to operate" (Demuijnck and Fasterling, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Supra-legal social obligations are captured in the notion of the 'social license to operate' (SLO), which is an informal, tacit agreement between a business or industry and the community in which it operates (Lacey and Lamont 2014). The SLO concept is relevant to any controversial technology or business activity (Demuijnck and Fasterling 2016) around which parties have divergent or competing interests (Lacey and Lamont 2014), including those that might characterize the deployment of gene drives to manage agricultural pests.…”
Section: Who Grants the Right To Release Gene Drive Insects?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The right to release gene drive insects would require those interested in deployment to address the claims of an array of relevant stakeholders, who, as discussed previously, may be difficult to identify a priori. Communities that could be directly impacted by a project tend to raise the greatest concerns (Demuijnck and Fasterling 2016;Hall et al 2015), and most SLOs are thus pursued at the community level, where the technological infrastructure will be located. However, SLO should be maintained at multiple scales, including the local level where the project will take place, and at industry, national, and international levels (Hall et al 2015).…”
Section: Who Grants the Right To Release Gene Drive Insects?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The level of trust expressed by a community is often established through community engagement initiatives and the flow on effects that the involvement of these initiatives and the legacy of previous activities and relationships [14]. Once complete trust is expressed towards a project the local community will begin to co-identify with the project, suggesting that the company has meet the current expectations of the community [40].…”
Section: The Concept Of Social License To Operatementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Stakeholders and communities are usually regarded as central to establishing a SLO, although their capacity to influence is not clearly understood [3,7,10,14,31,40]. However, there is significant divergence in the literature as to how they should be defined and what role they play [8,41).…”
Section: The Concept Of Social License To Operatementioning
confidence: 99%