Category Archives: Stakeholder Engagement

In Australia, coal mining comes with controversy

Among the OECD countries, Australia’s economy stands out.  It hardly noticed the global crisis of 2008/9 and has recorded continuous annual growth since 1991.  This success is very largely due to a robust mining sector, which collectively contributes almost 20% … Continue reading

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Responsible leadership: the foundation for corporate social responsibility

In the lead up to ACCSR’s Annual Conference, we spoke with Professor David Allen, management academic and strategy expert about the perils of responsible leadership and delivering value through CSR. Ongoing financial crises and institutional scandals have highlighted the role (and … Continue reading

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Mammoths and future proofing

We are more creative, more productive, and feel more rewarded when we work against a clear immediate problem. HBR says. Why? Possibly because we haven’t changed that much in the last 50,000 years. In fact we have the same brains that we … Continue reading

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Innovation and big pharma (what innovation?)

Big pharma companies should innovate more. Well, who shouldn’t? Still, they must do so urgently, according to a recent report from McKinsey – manufacturing technology has become very inefficient, which leads to too high production costs, which contribute to outstandingly diminishing marginal … Continue reading

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Paying the Price for Stakeholder Conflict

The Australian media is currently afire with “he-said, she-said” accounts of the recent industrial dispute between the construction company, Grocon and the Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). For nearly three weeks, the CFMEU and its members blockaded the … Continue reading

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Corporate Cultural Responsibility

As suggested in my previous blog From Social to Cultural Responsibility, I advocate increased cultural sensitivity and protection by organisations operating in close proximity to indigenous or culturally non-westernised populations. Therefore, I decided to look at how the world’s most … Continue reading

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Is integrated reporting the logical progression for sustainability reporting?

The fourth genus of the ever evolving GRI reporting framework is now in the first public comment stage of its conception.  This stage is crucial for the framework to maintain its credo of multi-stakeholder consensus based actualisation. It seems the … Continue reading

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Untangling CSR and similar concepts

Last week’s post on the social licence to operate led to a flurry of questions on this blog’s sister site on LinkedIn. Here’s a few more definitions to help untangle the differences between CSR, the social licence and other related … Continue reading

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Defining the elusive and essential social licence to operate

By Leeora Black and Sara Bice The term ‘social licence’ has become an increasingly popular expression to describe the business case for company engagement with stakeholders and issues. The term was coined in the mining industry about 15 years ago … Continue reading

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From Social to Cultural Responsibility

As an expatriate Englishman with an anthropological penchant, it is perhaps unsurprising that my interest is in the socio-cultural aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Recently, when researching mining companies working in Papua New Guinea (PNG), my attention was drawn … Continue reading

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