Corporate Social Responsibility Archives

Risk assessment, Social License to Operate and Corporate Social Responsibility

At Riskope we champion the idea that Risk assessment, Social License to Operate (SLO) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are strongly intertwined. It is part of our silo-breaking philosophy. Riskope’s builds risk assessments considering multidimensional consequences. These include “people” consequences, such as loss of quality of life. At the end of the day SLO and CSR are supported by enhanced transparency, clearer vision and distance themselves from a mere PR act, as people will identify more with the prospective realities.…

geoethics of fracking and oil

We recently read about geoethics of fracking and oil in IAPG – International Association for Promoting Geoethics (http://www.geoethics.org) Stephen Crittenden, the author of the paper, brilliantly explains “bad practices” in geoethics of fracking and oil. These strike stunning similarities with ethical issues in mining, a topic we are very familiar with. Indeed we have written over 20 papers in the last 10 years on that subject. We will discuss here geoethics of fracking and oil, bad practices and their similarities with…

Big players beware! Corporate Social Responsibility, business ethics social license to operate.

Corporate Social Responsibility, business ethics social license to operate It doesn’t matter if you sell cars, mortgages, cruises, or oil. Neither it does matter if your Customer Experience NPS had stellar values up to «yesterday»! And finally it does not matter if your industry is a “one of a kind”, or you are the “largest”, the “best”, etc. If the images projected by the media or the news about your latest scandal (of any kind) are vivid enough to stir…