Managing community relationships and corporate reputation - A stakeholder perspective
- Authors: Tuck, Jacqueline , Lowe, Julian , McEachern, Steven
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at International Mine Management 2006, Carlton, Victoria : 16th October, 2006 p. 305-313
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- Description: This paper reports on an ongoing research program to evaluate the impact a mining company's reputation(s), with its various stakeholder groups, has on a company's ability to sustain competitive advantage. Integral to this study is to develop an understanding of the relationships between mining companies and their stakeholders, and the importance of corporate citizenship policies to reputation and hence to corporate sustainability.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001814
Managing community relationships, reputation and sustaining competitive advantage : The case of mining towns
- Authors: Tuck, Jacqueline , Lowe, Julian , McRae-Williams, Pamela
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 2nd National Conference on the future of Australia's Country Towns, Bendigo, Australia : 11th - 13th July, 2005
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- Description: An important issue currently facing the mining industry in Australia is the management and cost to the industry and other stakeholders of entry into and exit from towns and their communities. These costs can be environmental, social, economic, political or reputational. The ability of companies to engage the trust of communities, governments and investors is critical, and corporate reputation plays a significant role in this. For the industry to secure a long-term and sustainable future, it must have the technical, business and reputation assets to proceed in a cost-effective, environmentally acceptable and socially supportive way. The paper introduces the concepts of sustainability both at the corporate level and the regional town and community level. For the companies, there are important impacts on costs and efficiencies, an organisations ‘license to operate’, shareholder value and the trade off between dealing with environmental and social issues through prevention or retrofit and corrective measures. However, for the mining industry, possibly the most important aspect of this study is the ability of companies to get access to new sites at competitive cost. For mining companies sustainability has moved from mineral and environmental resources, to a greater emphasis on economic sustainability and community capacity building.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001139