The Social License to Operate in the Latin American Mining Sector: The Cases of Bajo De La Alumbrera and Michiquillay

23 Pages Posted: 14 Oct 2009 Last revised: 4 Nov 2009

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Alejandro Zamprile

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Alberto Ariel Llorente

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Date Written: June 15, 2009

Abstract

In this extended abstract we intend to show that, in several of the Latin American (LA) countries, the outcomes that may derived from the interactions between Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and the ever widening variety of interest groups that are part of civil society are deeply influenced by the recipient country’s government political and economic attitudes regarding Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs). There are other effective ways to reduce the non commercial risks that FDIs, even when MNCs from environmentally ill reputed industries are involved, confront in the region: the Social License to Operate (SLO). Our research, in the form of a case study, analyzes the processes by which two different mining MNCs implemented their respective projects; the presence or absence of the SLO, as part of their corporate ethical behavior, led to polar outcomes: how and why that happened is the subject of our research.

Suggested Citation

Zamprile, Alejandro and Llorente, Alberto Ariel, The Social License to Operate in the Latin American Mining Sector: The Cases of Bajo De La Alumbrera and Michiquillay (June 15, 2009). 22nd Annual IACM Conference Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1488624 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1488624

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Alberto Ariel Llorente

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