Ngos And Corporations

Author : Michael Yaziji
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139478400
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NGOs and Corporations written by Michael Yaziji and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a period marked by the ascendency of corporations. At the same time, the number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – such as Amnesty International, CARE, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Save the Children, and the WWF – has rapidly increased in the last twenty years. As a result, these two very different types of organization are playing an increasingly important role in shaping our society, yet they often have very different agendas. This book focuses on the dynamic interactions, both conflictual and collaborative, that exist between corporations and NGOs. It includes rigorous models, frameworks, and case studies to document the various ways that NGOs target corporations through boycotts, proxy campaigns, and other advocacy initiatives. It also explains the emerging pattern of cross-sectoral alliances and partnerships between corporations and NGOs. This book can help managers, activists, scholars, and students to better understand the nature, scope, and evolution of these complex interactions.

Author : Dorothea Baur
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400722540
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NGOs as Legitimate Partners of Corporations written by Dorothea Baur and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction between corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has become an important topic in the debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR). Yet, unlike the vast majority of academic work on this topic, this book explicitly focuses on clarifying the role of NGOs, not of corporations, in this context. Based on the notion of NGOs as political actors it argues that NGOs suffer from a multiple legitimacy deficit: they are representatives of civil society without being elected; the legitimacy of the claims they raise is often controversial; and there are often doubts regarding the legitimacy of the behaviour they exhibit in putting forward their claims. Set against an extended sphere of political action in the postnational constellation this book argues that the political model of deliberative democracy provides a meaningful conceptualization of NGOs as legitimate partners of corporations and it develops a conceptual framework that specifically allows distinguishing legitimate partner NGOs from two related actor types with whom they share certain characteristics but who differ with respect to their legitimacy. These related actor types are interest groups on the one hand and activists on the other hand. In conclusion it argues that a focus on the behaviour of NGOs is most meaningful for distinguishing them from interest groups and activists.

Author : Michael Yaziji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511515675
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Author : Andy Last
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351285181
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business on a Mission written by Andy Last and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronze winner of the AXIOM Business Book Award in the category of Philanthropy, Non-Profit, Sustainability. Please see: http://www.axiomawards.com/77/award-winners/2017-winners This easy-to-read and engaging book is the perfect introduction to how to build a sustainable brand for your organization. Intended as a roadmap that can be readily applied by busy managers and practitioners, the book includes interviews with business leaders, including Paul Polman of Unilever, Adam Elman of Marks & Spencer, and Jonas Prising of ManpowerGroup to provide insight into best practice and clear guidance for implementation. Throughout, the book avoids jargon and theorizing to ensure readability. Business on a Mission is based on more than a decade working with some of the first businesses to develop social missions and shows the foundations behind their success. It looks at how businesses can profit from working hand in hand with society and identifies a model for success. The book demonstrates how businesses can go from hiding behind "social shields" to picking up "social swords" and presents the six criteria to look for in assessing a social mission. It also focuses on how good communications can build trust and bring about positive change; and it provides clear ways to engage employees and improve productivity as well as "rules" for communicating social missions externally. This optimistic book explains the benefits of partnerships in the sustainable development agenda, particularly between businesses and NGOs. The book features guidelines for avoiding dysfunctional partnerships, and presents interviews with Marc Van Ameringen, Executive Director of GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition) 2005 to 2016, and Myriam Sidibe, Social Mission Director for Africa, Unilever, on how things can be managed to the benefit of both partners. .

Author : Jem Bendell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351282719
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terms for Endearment written by Jem Bendell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and NGOs are seen by many to be locked in a perpetual war of values and ideologies. What this book demonstrates is that the war has moved on. Many companies are now engaging with their stakeholders – even those with which they have traditionally had antagonistic relationships – as part of their strategies for improved social and environmental performance. With contributions from an outstanding and diverse group of experts from business, consultancy, research institutes, NGOs and academia, Terms for Endearment investigates the how and why of these new collaborations and provides concrete examples of business working with stakeholder pressure for sustainable development. The book forcibly argues the notion of organizations of civil society setting the standards for business behaviour in the 21st century. For those companies that choose not to pursue high standards of social and environmental performance, confrontation with NGOs must be expected, with negative consequences for sales, costs and social capital, i.e. the bottom line. Terms for Endearment therefore presents business with both a threat and opportunity as we move closer to establishing a social basis for global economic activity.

Author : Simon Heap
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
ISBN 13 : 9781897748534
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NGOs Engaging with Business written by Simon Heap and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2000 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This presents the findings of Intrac's inquiry into the changing nature of relationships between NGOs and the Private Sector. By learning the lessons of such engagements, this two year research mainly funded by the Ford and Soros Foundations explores the potential for the two sectors to work together for global development in the future. The book covers a variety of important subjects affecting NGO-business relations, such as the strategy and tactics for engagement from adversarial to cosy funding partners, with the emerging middle ground of negotiated, constructive co-operation; what development NGOs might learn from environmental NGOs; and how NGOs should tackle corporate codes of conduct. Several NGO-business collaborations are documented in detail including: the WWF/Unilever-created Marine Stewardship Council; Rainforest Alliance's environmental management partnership and Chiquita in the Costa Rican banana sector; and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries; and Living Earth's partnership with Shell in Nigeria and the UK. By using examples from Colombia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, the Southern and Eastern country-specific factors that determine different levels of NGO-business relations are examined.

Author : Michael Yaziji
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521866847
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NGOs and Corporations written by Michael Yaziji and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It also explains the emerging pattern of cross-sectoral alliances and partnerships between corporations and NGOs.

Author : Anthony J. Bebbington
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136218
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can NGOs Make a Difference? written by Anthony J. Bebbington and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of critical new directions to thinking and acting around the challenge of development alternatives. The book's originality comes from the wide-range of new case-study material it presents, the conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about development alternatives, and the practical suggestions for NGOs. At the heart of this book is the argument that NGOs can and must re-engage with the project of seeking alternative development futures for the world's poorest and more marginal. This will require clearer analysis of the contemporary problems of uneven development, and a clear understanding of the types of alliances NGOs need to construct with other actors in civil society if they are to mount a credible challenge to disempowering processes of economic, social and political development.

Author : Tadashi Yamamoto
Publisher : Japan Center for International Exchange
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate-NGO Partnership in Asia Pacific written by Tadashi Yamamoto and published by Japan Center for International Exchange. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case studies in this book offer new perspectives on the increasing philanthropic partnerships between the corporate, nonprofit, and public sectors in the Asia Pacific region.

Author : Jonathan P. Doh
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and NGOs written by Jonathan P. Doh and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents