Business-NGOs Partnerships

Abstract

This special issue shares some of the papers presented at the Partnership 2012: NGO+Business conference at Copenhagen Business School. During the event, a range of business leaders, NGO representatives, politicians, academics and students discussed how partnerships can help to alleviate urgent social and environmental challenges facing the world. Introduction: the rise of business-NGO partnerships / Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen and Janni Thusgaard Pedersen -- Turning point: I don't care what you make, I care what you're made of / Jon Duschinsky -- Partnership steering wheels: how the formation process of a cross-sector partnership can influence its governance mechanisms / Heike Schirmer -- Joining forces: creating new partnerships to bring Greenland forward / Anne Mette Christiansen -- Corporate foundations: catalysts of NGO-business partnerships? / Heidi Herlin, Janni Thusgaard Pedersen -- NGO-business collaboration in Kenay: a case study and broader stakeholder analysis / Laura M.F. Kuijpers and Agnes M. Meershoek.