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ACSI publishes revised Governance Guidelines, includes new ESG themes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... sector is providing an example of what happens when problems in your corporate culture leads to loss of social license to operate. The Panama Papers is leading to more questions about who is paying tax where." The guidelines have also expanded on topics ...

Transparency around tax payments continues to be issue: CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... conversation is shifting to consider the risks of tax minimisation as an issue impacting negatively on social license to operate. "Public perception is what's starting to bite," Leske said. "The expectation is that companies will be positive actors in ...

Directors speak to evolving, expanding role of corporate boards at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... expectations of openness and transparency in engagement, and increased emphasis on maintaining trust and social license to operate having as much importance as financial return. A panel of directors - Paula Dwyer, chairman of Tabcorp Holdings Limited ...

EY issues call to action to companies over social license to operate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
EY has challenged Australian companies to take a hard look at whether they are maintaining their social license to operate or if they are running a "corporate trust deficit." Matthew Bell, EY Oceania climate change and sustainability leader EY recently ...

Companies, CEOs, chairs seen as unethical: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... culture is essential to creating value. It creates opportunities and enhances operations and underpins social license to operate." Survey results demonstrate that while government laws, regulations and financial penalties are seen to influence ethical ...

Social license to operate key to achieving sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... business' role in sustainable development, covering issues business must manage to earn and maintain social license to operate, according to an expert in social research. Robert Boutilier, president of Boutilier and Associates Social license to operate ...

EY appoints new climate change and sustainability leader

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... sectors, but it applies across a raft of areas including human rights in the supply chain, energy, and social license to operate more broadly." Bell will lead nearly 100 people in Australia. EY's Climate Change and Sustainability practice has grown steadily ...

ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... and safety (OH&S), a management issue in its own right, but also an issue that impacts on things like social license to operate. "You have local doctors chaining themselves to drilling equipment, that's an obvious example where if a company doesn't have ...

ACCSR tracks Australian/NZ progress towards CSR innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... impacts, developing new products/services with environmentally responsible attributes and strengthening social license to operate as other high priorities. Black said the biggest surprise in this year's survey was the sense of optimism that respondents ...

Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... is also an issue for investors. Spoors cited the extractives industry and companies' need to maintain social license to operate in developing countries and with regimes that can feature corruption and lack of transparency around the amount of taxation ...