Acknowledgements | p. 7 |
Foreword | p. 8 |
Foreword | p. 10 |
Foreword | p. 12 |
Introduction: Working with stakeholder pressure for sustainable development | p. 14 |
Driving Factors for Business-NGO Engagement | |
Globalisation and the new politics of sustainable development | p. 31 |
Making it legit: new ways of generating corporate legitimacy in a globalising world | p. 40 |
Web wars: NGOs, companies and governments in an Internet-connected world | p. 49 |
Examples from Industry Sectors | |
Planting the seeds of change: business-NGO relations on tropical deforestation | p. 65 |
Shades of green: NGO coalitions, mining companies and the pursuit of negotiating power | p. 79 |
A no win-win situation? GMOs, NGOs and sustainable development | p. 96 |
The listening banks: the development of stakeholder relations with NGOs | p. 111 |
Organisations' Experiences | |
Meeting social and environmental objectives through partnership: the experience of Unilever | p. 118 |
Working non-'STOP' for sustainable development: case study of a Canadian environmental NGO's relationship with businesses since 1970 | p. 125 |
Bridging troubled waters: the Marine Stewardship Council | p. 135 |
Seeking and Managing Collaboration | |
Partners for sustainability | p. 150 |
Culture clash and mediation: exploring the cultural dynamics of business-NGO collaboration | p. 163 |
The art of collaboration: lessons from emerging environmental business-NGO partnerships in Asia | p. 178 |
Concepts | |
Complementary resources: the win-win rationale for partnership with NGOs | p. 193 |
Thinking partners: business, NGOs and the partnership concept | p. 207 |
Change the rules! Business-NGO partnerships and structuration theory | p. 216 |
Future Directions | |
New frontiers: emerging NGO activities to strengthen transparency and accountability in business | p. 226 |
Civil regulation: a new form of democratic governance for the global economy? | p. 239 |
Bibliography | p. 255 |
List of Abbreviations | p. 267 |
Author Biographies | p. 270 |
Index | p. 274 |
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