Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test for the salience of social licence to operate in the context of a very poor community. The idea of social license to operate is closely linked to ideas of stakeholder power, legitimacy and urgency (Mitchell et al. , 1997). But what if a community...

This research examines whether the risk of focused banks is higher than that of diversified ones. Focused banks are defined as those with a large proportion of assets in one of six narrow industry segments including agricultural loans, credit cards, commercial lending, mortgage lending, consumer...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) on moral agents, and in turn, governance structures in western societies. Design/methodology/approach – This conceptual paper takes a holistic approach to governance and recasts popular notions...