By definition, measuring the social capital in firm-stakeholder relationships assesses the degree to which the company has met essential preconditions for good CSP. Previous studies identified the three most important dimensions of social capital as the structural (e.g., network ties), the...

Corporations can contribute to sustainable development goals like poverty reduction by bringing linking social capital into community and stakeholder networks. Often their well-intentioned efforts produce disappointing results because they encounter a variety of pitfalls like unorganised...

When construction projects are halted or slowed by conflicts with stakeholders, they have lost their social license. Social licenses are granted by stakeholder networks, which include community groups, among others. Project managers would benefit from approaches that can predict which groups or...

Previous research on the impacts of global trade on Mexican companies showed that the family remained the basic institutional model. Since then, however, Mexico's economy has become the most open economy in Latin America with a rising percentage of university-educated workers. As a middle-income...

Companies, governments and the civic sector need strong cooperative relationships with each other in order to thrive. The need is greatest at globalization's two frontiers. The first frontier is typified by rural areas in developing countries where government and civic organizations are scarce....

In the macroeconomics and political science literature, the natural resource curse hypothesis conditionally connects national dependence on natural resource revenues to both slow economic growth in the non-resource sectors and a lower quality of democratic institutions. Anthropologically...

The Alberta oil sands industry and the New South Wales coal industry both faced controversies related to their cumulative impacts. In an attempt to generate hypotheses, we compared their attempts to maintain legitimacy, in its various aspects, for both their industries and the regulatory regimes...