- 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
