TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bendell,Jem
TI  - Terms for Endearment: Business, NGOs and Sustainable Development
SN  - 9781907643149
AV  - HD75.6 -- .T47 2000eb 
U1  - 382.1 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Public relations
KW  - Non-governmental organizations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Forewords -- Anita Roddick, Founder and Co-Chair, The Body Shop International -- Founder, New Academy of Business, UK -- Georg Kell, Senior Officer, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General -- Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General and CEO, CIVICUS -- Introduction -- PART 1: Driving Factors for Business-NGO Engagement -- 1. Globalisation and the new politics of sustainable development -- 2. Making it legit: new ways of generating corporate legitimacy in a globalising world -- 3· Web wars: NGOs, companies and governments in an Internet-connected world -- PART 2: Examples from Industry Sectors -- 4· Planting the seeds of change: business-NGO relations on tropical deforestation -- 5· Shades of green: NGO coalitions, mining companies and the pursuit of negotiating power -- 6. A no win-win situation? GMOs, NGOs and sustainable development -- 7. The listening banks: the development of stakeholder relations with NGOs -- PART 3: Organisations' Experiences -- 8. Meeting social and environmental objectives through partnership: the experience of Unilever -- 9. Working non-'STOP' for sustainable development: case study of a Canadian environmental NGO's relationship with businesses since 1970 -- 10. Bridging troubled waters: the Marine Stewardship Council -- PART 4: Seeking and Managing Collaboration -- 11. Partners for sustainability -- 12. Culture clash and mediation: exploring the cultural dynamics of business-NGO collaboration -- 13. The art of collaboration: lessons from emerging environmental business-NGO partnerships in Asia -- PART 5: Concepts -- 14. Complementary resources: the win-win rationale for partnership with NGOs -- 15. Thinking partners: business, NGOs and the partnership concept -- 16. Change the rules! Business-NGO partnerships and structuration theory; PART 6: Future Directions -- 17· New frontiers: emerging NGO activities to strengthen transparency and accountability in business -- 18. Civil regulation: a new form of democratic governance for the global economy? -- Bibliography -- List of Abbreviations -- Author Biographies -- Index
N2  - 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
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