NGOs as Legitimate Partners of Corporations A Political Conceptualization
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 co...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
| Series: | Issues in Business Ethics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The problem
- How do corporations choose their partner NGO?
- Outline and methodology
- Part I Getting to the core.- 1. NGOs as representatives of public claims
- Part II Actors: Civil society and NGOs in the postnational constellation.- 2. The postnational constellation: A broad conception of democracy.- 3. Normative orientation from political theory.- 4. Civil Society: Coming to grips with an elusive term
- 5. Insights from Part II
- Part III Institutions and processes: A normative framework for legitimate partner NGOs
- 6. The public sphere
- 7.Public reason
- 8. The political process.- 9. Legitimacy.- 10. Insights from Part III.- Part IV Drawing a typology for legitimate partner NGOs.- 11. NGOs, interest groups and activists.- 12. Substantive characteristics of legitimate partner NGOs.- 13. Structural characteristics of legitimate partner NGOs.- 14. Procedural characteristics of legitimate partner NGOs.- 15. Insights from Part IV.- 16. Concluding remarks: Normative guidelines for conceptualizing NGOs as legitimate partners of corporations and future implications
- Political-theoretical guidelines
- Rights and duties of legitimate partner NGOs
- Future implications.- Bibliography
- Index