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Explains the four principles of successful licensing in a cluttered marketplace: winning attention from the target audience, bringing brands to life, delivering an idea that motivates the audience to act, and making the licence accountable to ensure it delivers against its business objectives: this process is the Marketing Store's concept of brand activation. Examines McDonald's Happy Meal brand as a successful example of licence selection since 1985; these have been varied, have included a partnership with Disney, and have reflected the mood of the time. Recounts how McDonald's used the appeal of Pixar's smash hit film "The Incredibles" to create an integrated Happy Meals promotion spanning a diverse audience of children and young adults.

The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary organized a one-day symposium on Oct. 8, 2014 in Calgary, as part of the School's TransCanada Corporation Energy Policy and Regulatory Frameworks Program. The symposium was titled "Is Social License a License to Stall?" Held at the Hotel Arts, the event attracted a full-capacity audience of about 110 people, including representatives from industry, government and environmental non-government organizations. The symposium included four moderated panel sessions and a keynote speaker at lunch. The School of Public Policy set the framework for discussion at the Calgary symposium with the following description: Canada's regulators act in the public interest to review energy and infrastructure project applications. Regulators are guided by procedural fairness and follow a transparent application, review and hearing process with data filings and sworn testimony. But that's changing. "Social license" is a relatively new term, which some interests are using to create a different standard for the approval of projects — especially energy projects. According to social license advocates, projects must meet often ill-defined requirements set up by non-governmental organizations, local residents or other interests — a new hurdle for project approval, but without the rigour and rule of law of a regulator. Is social license a meaningful addition to the regulatory process, or is it being used as a constantly moving goal-post designed to slow down regulatory processes, delay project implementation, frustrate energy infrastructure expansion and even enrich those advocates who promote it as a new model? This paper summarises the discussion and the themes that emerged throughout the day. Most notably, panellists concluded that "social licence" is a real and significant issue that presents both an opportunity and a problem, not only for regulators but for all parties involved in the regulatory process.

Parekh and Touraine have stressed the importance of intercultural dialogue in the construction of multicultural societies. When, in 2004, the Repertory Theatre in Birmingham, UK, produced Behzti ('Dishonour' in Punjabi), by a British-born Sikh playwright, local Sikhs entered into a dialogue with the theatre management and tried unsuccessfully to change aspects of the play they believed offensive to their faith. A demonstration outside the theatre turned violent and the production was halted, with an international outcry against this affront to artistic licence. Although frequently represented as a Manichaean conflict between proponents of free speech and those who sought to protect religious sensibilities, the affair may not have been about, or not mainly about, the clash between religious and secular values at all. It was much more complex, with a diversity of voices and arguments that slithered between principles of liberal and religious faith, culture, gender, and 'race'.

Cet article fait usage de la « licence binaire » offerte par le titre du symposium dans lequel il prend place (« Comparative Relativism ») comme une sorte de promesse de connexion. L'auteur suggère que le pouvoir de la bifurcation réside dans le défi de l'hétérogénéité, du caractère fractal de la perspective, du perpectivalisme et des multiplicités : le moment où la divergence crée une relation. Si nous sommes invités – dans le même geste – à considérer des formes de comparaison et des formes de relativisme (en laissant tomber la différence et la similarité), deux autres voies nous sont également offertes, l'une fondée sur un monde de singularités et de multiplicités, et l'autre sur un monde de répétitions pas-tout-à-fait-identiques. L'auteure se demande si le mode binaire n'est pas essentiel au travail épistémique que les chercheurs occidentaux (euro-américains) pourraient vouloir faire, puisqu'ils réinventent sans cesse la division entre le moderne et le post-/pré-moderne. Strathern part du principe que l'anthropologue a le droit de parler des concepts à travers les personnes et commence par interroger la façon dont les Papous Néo-Guinéens qui coexistent dans une ville se comparent entre eux, par opposition aux comparaisons ethniques effectuées ailleurs (par exemple, dans les interactions balkaniques décrites par Sarah Green). En parlant des personnes à travers les concepts, il convient de se demander ce qu'implique la relativisation du travail d'un chercheur à travers celui d'un autre. L'auteur dit que son « intuition » est que dans les deux cas, l'analyste pourrait souhaiter avoir la liberté de discerner – d'un même geste – les multiplicités de ce que John Law et Annemarie Mol appellent le perspectivalisme (leur alternative à la comparaison) et le perspectivisme radicalement divergent d'Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (un relativisme autonome, récursif et surtout socialement spécifique).

Relying on the conclusions of the West Midlands Health & Safety Advice Center, the findings of the British Health & Safety Executive regarding the death of Dennis Clarke, an industrial worker, are challenged. Clarke, age 21, passed out while cleaning a large degreasing tank in an unventilated room at work & died shortly afterwards. The Health & Safety Executive fined the company he worked for, but it did not bring manslaughter charges against any of the company's directors -- despite the compelling case presented by the Advice Center. If the government continues with its deregulation campaign, it is argued, there will be more untimely deaths like Clarke's. M. Maguire

ABSTRACTWith placement in residential care, society assumes overall responsibility for a child's daily care, well‐being and development. How public authorities respond to poor care quality is of crucial importance. To guarantee quality care and minimise risks, welfare states increasingly develop different mechanisms and systems to supervise out‐of‐home care. In this article, we analyse how central inspectorates in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden deal with what can be conceived as the last supervisory measure, namely, the revocation of licences. The aim is to describe and analyse how frequently and why national inspectorates in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden withdraw residential care licences. The findings are based on an analysis of all available documented reports on revocation decisions between 2017 and 2021. The findings reveal that, between 2017 and 2021, there were 53 licence suspensions or revocations across the four countries, albeit with variations among the nations. Furthermore, the study shows that residential care units (RCUs) generally have a documented history of interactions with inspectorates. Revocation decisions were often attributed to several reasons, with safety, staff‐related concerns and documentation deficiencies being the primary factors. The findings are discussed based on concepts and theory on regulation and supervision.

Discusses employment of private military companies (PMCs) by governments and Western mining and petroleum companies in developing countries, and assesses their role and influence in securing, stabilizing, or destabilizing security worldwide, and possible regulation of their activities.

Wherever taxi regulators cap the number of taxis, operating licences acquire economic value. In the UK, the Office of Fair Trading recommended legislative repeal of quantity caps, but the status quo continues. This article argues that licence values send an important signal to taxi regulators.