Social license to operate: Practical understanding of the concept and processes to attain and maintain it
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study builds on previous research of social license with the goal of developing a deeper understanding of the concept at the practical and professional levels. The study explores four distinct perspectives of social license: community, business, regulatory, and public participation expert perspective. Additionally, the study seeks to understand the extent to which organizational behaviour affects the social license processes and the role of communication in processes related to social license. Overall, the study’s findings show that the practical understanding of social license is not so different from the theoretical understanding of the concept. While participants emphasize that social license is actually a relationship, they also identify the importance of stakeholders’ perceptions; organizational behaviour and performance; and the interests and values of organizations and stakeholders as key considerations in matters of social license.©Journal of Professional Communication, all rights reserved.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it