Terms for endearment : business, NGOs and sustainable development / edited by Jem Bendell.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bendell, Jem
Language:English
Published: Sheffield : Greenleaf, 2000.
Subjects:
Industrial management > Environmental aspects.
Social responsibility of business.
Corporations > Public relations.
Physical Description:280 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. Working with stakeholder pressure for sustainable development / Jem Brendell
  • Pt. 1. Driving factors for business-NGO engagement. Globalisation and the new politics of sustainable development / Peter Newell
  • Making it legit : new ways of generating corporate legitimacy in a globalising world / Cheryl Rodgers
  • Web wars : NGOs, companies and governments in an Internet-connected world / John Bray. Pt. 2. Examples from industry sectors. Planting the seeds of change : business-NGO relations on tropical deforestation / Jem Brendell and David F. Murphy
  • Shades of green : NGO coalitions, mining companies and the pursuit of negotiating power / Saleem H. Ali
  • A no win-win situation? GMOs, NGOs and sustainable development / Jem Brendell
  • The listening banks : the development of stakeholder relations with NGOs / Mike Lachowicz. Pt. 3. Organisations' experiences. Meeting social and environmental objectives through partnership : the experience of Unilever / Anne Weir
  • Working non-"STOP' for sustainable development : case study of a Canadian environmental NGO's relationship with business since 1970 / Marie-France Turcotte
  • Bridging troubled waters : the Marine Stewardship Council / Penny Fowler and Simon Heap. Pt. 4. Seeking and managing collaboration. Partners for sustainability / John Elkington and Shelly Fennell
  • Culture clash and mediation : exploring the cultural dynamics of business-NGO collaboration / Andrew Crane
  • The art of collaboration : lessons from emerging environmental business-NGO partnerships in Asia / Christopher S. Plante and Jem Brendell. Pt. 5. Concepts. Complementary resources : the win-win rationale for partnership with NGOs / Steve Waddell
  • Thinking partners : business, NGOs and the partnership concept / David F. Murphy and Gill Coleman
  • Change the rules! Business-NGO partnerships and structuration theory / Uwe Schneidewind and Holger Petersen. Pt. 6. New directions. New frontiers : emerging NGO activities to strengthen transparency and accountability in business / Jem Brendell and Rob Lake
  • Civil regulation : a new form of democratic governance for the global economy? / Jem Brendell.