Business/NGO Engagement and Partnerships Presentation February 2011
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Business, NGOs, campaigns and partnerships: The road to engagement Toby Webb, Founder, Ethical Corporation. MSc Corporate Governance and Ethics class, Corporate Responsibility module, Birkbeck College, University of London, January 27 2011 ethicalcorp.blogspot.com / ethicalcorp.com
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Lecture given to MSc class at Birkbeck College, University of London Corporate Responsibility module. Focuses on why and how business and NGOs engage, and partner, on corporate responsibility, and sustainability/environment issues and problems
Transcript of Business/NGO Engagement and Partnerships Presentation February 2011
- 1. Business, NGOs, campaigns and partnerships: The road to
engagement
Toby Webb, Founder, Ethical Corporation.MSc Corporate Governance and Ethics class, Corporate Responsibility module, Birkbeck College, University of London, January 27 2011
ethicalcorp.blogspot.com / ethicalcorp.com
2. 3. Some background
- an industry cannot survive an ongoing conict with society. Dialogue, adjustment and collaboration are not a luxury but a necessity (Aarnout Loudon, former president-director, AKZO Nobel, 1987)
4. Stakeholder relations seen as a crucial element of CSR. Scholars (e.g. Freeman, Carroll, Epstein, Hartman and Stafford, Waddock et. Al.) assume CSR can only be fully developed in partnership whereby the exploration of new roles is a central element 5. In 1900, 100 International NGOs. By 1998 more than 50,000 in existence
