Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Social License to Operate, Innovative Partnerships & the Copper Industry

《超越企业社会责任：经营社会许可证、创新伙伴关系和铜行业》研究旨在调查“经营社会许可证”概念的出现，并评估其对采掘业利益相关者的意义。在2016财年，研究重点是蒙古的案例。该研究的分析框架已应用于这一具体案例，基于提取主义的文献和2015年实地调查期间收集的数据。这一新阶段研究的初步结果在全年的三次国际会议上提出。总体研究的研究结果通过在高级别国际期刊上发表两篇文章、两份联合国工作文件和一份广泛获取的在线报纸上发表一篇文章来传播。

The research Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Social License to Operate, Innovative Partnerships and the Copper Industry, seeks to investigate the emergence of the concept of a ‘Social License to Operate’ and to assess its significance for stakeholders in the extractive industry. In FY 2016, the research has focused on the case of Mongolia. The analytical framework of the research has been applied to this specific case based on both the literature on extractivism and on the data collected during the 2015 fieldwork. Initial results of this new phase of the　research were presented at three international conferences throughout the year. The research results from the overall research were disseminated via the publication of two articles in high ranking international journals, two United Nations working papers and an article in a wide-access online newspaper.