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| Author: | Poncelet, E.C. |
| Title: | Resisting corporate citizenship: Business–NGO relations in multi-stakeholder environmental partnerships |
| Journal: | Journal of Corporate Citizenship
2003 : SPRING, 9, p. 97-115 |
| Index terms: | Environment Co-operation Stakeholders Companies European Union |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper addresses corporate citizenship as expressed by business participation in multi-stakeholder environmental partnerships. Based on ethnographic research performed in a European Union (EU) partnership in the mid-1990s, its goal is to explore why some environmental groups are resisting such voluntarist efforts. The paper describes several specific practices of resistance and then draws on an analysis of some of the sociohistorical differences characterising representatives from the business and environmental non-governmental organisation (NGO) sectors to explain them. The focus is on differences in the participantsÂ’ relative understandings of themselves, each other, environmental responsibility and multi-stakeholder proceedings. The findings suggest that these differences serve to reinforce intersectoral mistrust and power imbalances. The paper concludes that these partnerships are in the contradictory position of both inciting this resistance and presenting a means for overcoming it. The paper suggests ways by which corporations may approach multi-stakeholder partnerships to help diminish NGO reluctance with a caution. |
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