Alliances for sustainable development
Subtitle: business and NGO partnerships
By: Laurence Schwesinger Berlie.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230240964
Subjects: Strategic alliances (Business); Nongovernmental organizations; Sustainable development; Management -- Environmental aspects; Social responsibility of business
Description: "This book is a lively and hands-on exploration of corporate-NGO alliances. It offers original insight to understand why alliances exist and to what end. It also looks into the asymmetries between partners and dwells on three crucial aspects of alliances management : alliance capacity development, stakeholder involvement and alliance metrics"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: General introduction FIRST PART: THE FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE-NGO ALLIANCESChapter I Corporate-NGO alliances: essentially a strategic choiceChapter II Alliance motivationsChapter III Typologies of allies and alliances SECOND PART: MANAGING CORPORATE-NGO ALLIANCESIntroduction to part II Chapter IV Symmetries versus asymmetries in corporate-NGO allianceChapter V Building alliance capacities Chapter VI Stakeholder involvementChapter VII Measuring alliance performance: success indicatorsGeneral conclusion General introduction FIRST PART: THE FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE-NGO ALLIANCESChapter I Corporate-NGO alliances: essentially a strategic choiceChapter II Alliance motivationsChapter III Typologies of allies and alliances SECOND PART: MANAGING CORPORATE-NGO ALLIANCESIntroduction to part II Chapter IV Symmetries versus asymmetries in corporate-NGO allianceChapter V Building alliance capacities Chapter VI Stakeholder involvementChapter VII Measuring alliance performance: success indicatorsGeneral conclusion.