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Is the social licence a real thing?

November 2, 2020   

The social licence began as a metaphor with the legal licences required in mining. Then it morphed into a quantifiable management tool for obtaining and tracking the social acceptability of a company’s operations. Today, political actors have started using the term as a way to imply that their favoured policies are more legitimate than those of their opponents. As it has been dragged through the mud of politics, the term ‘social licence’ has been labelled everything from corporate PR spin to undemocratic, leftist propaganda.

This video shows the conditions under which political actors will attribute different characteristics to the social licence in order to gain an advantage over their rivals. The video is loosely based on my publication in the journal  The Extractive Industries and Society (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.05.022)

It’s a longer video because it includes some review the academic literature on the social licence:

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Network mapping workshops deliver strategic directions for stakeholder engagement, online, in half a day.

   September 17, 2020
   Now stakeholder network mapping workshops can be done online in half a day. They’re prefect for when an organization needs a quick start reading of its stakeholder environment.

See this YouTube video on the Social Licence channel for details:

 

 

I have just uploaded the first videos on the Social Licence to youtube. It is a two-part introduction to the social licence.
Part 1 reviews basic concepts: https://youtu.be/vFHbwRqHD7A

 

The personnel in your organization each deal with different stakeholders, which include customers and suppliers, government and NGOs, to shareholders and unions. To deal with the influence they have on your organization, you need to understand the coalitions and influence dynamics among them. This requires a map of the stakeholder network. By bringing together your personnel in an online workshop, you can get a quick picture of the sociopolitical landscape and develop provisional strategies for resolving conflicts and improving your social licence.
The steps in the workshop are:
1. Join together on a meeting platform
2. Break into small groups
3. Use a web app to draw nodes representing stakeholders
4. Using the app, color the nodes to indicate what level of social licence your group thinks each stakeholder grants
5. Add lines to represent collaborative or conflictive relations among the stakeholders
6. Rearrange the nodes to see who is more influential and which ones are clustered in coalitions
7. Interpret the graph’s implications for your social licence.
By bringing in participants from diverse parts of your organization you can (a) get a broader picture of who all the stakeholders are and how they affect each other, and (b) build commitment to stakeholder relations initiative.

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Social Licence channel on youtube

September 9, 2020

I have uploaded a two-part introduction to the social licence to my youtube channel. The first part reviews basic concepts.

 

Part 2 looks at my latest model of the social licence and gives an example of its application:

 

In addition to the Spanish version available in my other blogs here, there is a Portuguese version available at:
https://vimeo.com/499814831

 

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Boutilier, R.G. 2016. Using  the social license to prioritize stakeholders. Panel presentation at World Mining Congress, October 18 to 21, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Boutilier, R.G. 2016. Getting a social license for sustainable infrastructure. Keynote presentation at Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia, May 4, Perth, Australia.

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Boutilier, R.G. 2016. The social license: What it is. Why you need it. How to get it. Paper presented at Water Dynamics-13: The Role of Water in Earth Process, Origin of Life, Energy and Material Design, March 15 to 17, Sendai, Japan.

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Boutilier, R.G. 2015. When is the social licence a partial referendum on the social contract it embodies? Panel presentation at Society for Business Ethics annual conference, August 6 to 10, Vancouver, Canada.

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