Corporate Social License

This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of white-collar and corporate crime through detailed examination of the use, affect, and violation of the corporate social license – a concept frequently extended to a license to operate. Whilst discrete aspects of corporate social responsibility have found their way into the discourse on business deviance and crime, no single book to date has provided a detailed exploration of social licence through a criminological lens. Here, using an interdisciplinary focus which includes illustrative case-studies and large-scale original fieldwork, Gottschalk and Hamerton explore European, North American, Asian, and global perspectives to identify, position, and reveal the impact of the social license on contemporary conceptions of white-collar and corporate deviance and crime.  Corporate Social License: A Study in Legitimacy, Conformance, and Corruption will be of interest to scholars of criminology, law, business management, and sociology along with professionals within allied fields.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2:  Violations of the Social License.- Chapter 3: Institutional Theory Perspectives.- Chapter 4:  Stakeholder Theory Perspectives.- Chapter 5:  Legitimacy and the Corporate Social License.- Chapter 6: Corporate Response to Normative Social Pressure.- Chapter 7:  The Convenience Theory Approach.- Chapter 8: Considerations on Corporate Social Responsibility.- Chapter 9:  Challenging the Social License.- Chapter 10: Social License and the Impact of Corporate Change.- Chapter 11: Compliance-Conformity-Convenience.- Chapter 12: Gendered  Perspectives on Social License and Corporate Crime.- Chapter 13: Making Sense of Deviance: Comparative Perspectives.- Chapter 14: Conclusion.