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Business, NGOs and Sustainable Development
Herausgeber: Bendell, Jem

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Produktbeschreibung

Increasingly, companies view engagement with NGOs as part of a strategy for the pursuit of sustainable development. This book presents the views of leading international figures on the relationship between business, NGOs and sustainable development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 235mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781874719298
• ISBN-10: 1874719292
• Artikelnr.: 40549327

Autorenporträt

Bendell, Jem

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Anita Roddick
Founder and Co-Chair
The Body Shop International; Founder
New Academy of Business
UK Foreword Georg Kell
Senior Officer
Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General Foreword Kumi Naidoo
President
CIVICUS Introduction: Working with stakeholder pressure for sustainable development Jem Bendell
New Academy of Business
UK Part 1: Driving factors for business-NGO engagement1. Globalisation and the new politics of sustainable development Peter Newell
Institute of Development Studies
UK 2. Making it legit: new ways of generating corporate legitimacy in a global economy Cheryl Rodgers
University of Portsmouth
UK 3. Web wars: business
NGOs and governments in an Internet-connected world John Bray
Control Risks Group
UK Part 2: Examples from industry sectors4. Planting the seeds of change: business-NGO relations and tropical deforestation David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell
New Academy of Business
UK 5. Shades of green: mining
NGOs and the pursuit of negotiating power Saleem H. Ali
MIT
USA 6. A no win-win situation? GMOs
NGOs and sustainable development Jem Bendell
New Academy of Business
UK 7. The listening banks: the development of relations with NGOs Mike Lachowicz
SERM Rating Agency Ltd
UK Part 3: Organisations' experiences 8. Meeting social and environmental objectives through partnership: the experience of Unilever Anne Weir
Unilever
UK 9. Working non-"STOP" for sustainable development: case study of a Canadian environmental NGO's relationships with businesses since 1970 Marie-France Turcotte
Concordia University
Canada 10. Bridging troubled waters: the Marine Stewardship Council Simon Heap
INTRAC
UK
and Penny Fowler
Trade Policy Advisor
Oxfam UK Part 4: Seeking and managing collaboration11. Partners for sustainability John Elkington and Shelly Fennell
SustainAbility Ltd
UK 12. Culture clash and mediation: exploring the cultural dynamics of business-NGO collaboration Andy Crane
Cardiff Business School
UK 13. The art of collaboration: emerging business-NGO relations in Asia Christopher C. Plante
The Asia Foundation
USA
and Jem Bendell
New Academy of Business
UK Part 5: Concepts14. Complementary resources: the win-win rationale for partnership with NGOs Steve Waddell
Organizational Futures
USA 15. Thinking partners: business
NGOs and the partnership concept David F. Murphy and Gill Coleman
New Academy of Business
UK 16. Change the rules! Business-NGO relations and structuration theory Uwe Schneidewind and Holger Petersen
University of Oldenburg
Germany Part 6: Future directions17. New frontiers: emerging NGO activities to strengthen transparency and accountability in business Rob Lake
Traidcraft
UK
and Jem Bendell
New Academy of Business
UK 18. Civil regulation: a new form of democratic governance for the global economy? Jem Bendell
New Academy of Business
UK