Bridging corporate social responsibility and social impact assessment
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social impact assessment (SIA) share foundational values. Yet even where a single corporation espouses CSR and carries out SIA, the two often pass like ships in the night. Drawing upon recent literature and experiences from a decade of applied social research in CSR and SIA in the resources industry, this professional practice paper identifies three key bridging points through which CSR and SIA could be better linked and strengthened in future: policy–practice gaps, voluntary versus involuntary regulation and internal versus independent implementation.
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- Authors
- Bice, S.
- Affiliations
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Bice, Sara
- ORCID
- Bice, Sara
- Venue
- Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-12-10
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 160-166
- ISSN
- 1461-5517 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-5465
- OpenAlex
- W2067121370
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 5.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (publishedVersion)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Keywords
- corporate social responsibility, social impact assessment, policy-practice gap, voluntary regulation
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