A New Direction for CSR: Engaging Networks for Whole System Change

Ann Svendsen and Myriam Laberge

Chapter 9 in The Challenge of Organizing and Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility, 2006, pp 131-147 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In recent years a number of multinational companies, including Ikea, Home Depot and Nike, have become agents of social change by convening or joining networks of stakeholders to address complex socioeconomic and environmental issues. In attempting to deal with sustainability and corporate responsibility they have gradually shifted their change efforts from their own operations (that is, improving eco-efficiency) to upstream and downstream stakeholders (that is, supply-chain compliance with environmental and social policies) and, finally, to working with networks of governments, civic societies and businesses to change entire economic or social systems.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Capital; Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Performance; Stakeholder Engagement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230626355_9

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