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The process of business/environmental collaborations : partnering for sustainability
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The process of business/environmental collaborations : partnering for sustainability

Author: Alissa J Stern; Tim Hicks
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Confrontation may be one way of settling environmental disputes but is there another, perhaps better, way? Stern and Hicks say yes - through the process of collaboration. They give executives the practical skills to create and sustain collaborations with environmentalists of all kinds, and environmentalists another way to work with corporations, not as foes but as partners. The book is unique in that it does not
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alissa J Stern; Tim Hicks
ISBN: 1567202926 9781567202922
OCLC Number: 43115000
Description: xi, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Business/Environmental Partnerships: An Overview --
Understanding What Collaboration Entails --
Collaborating to Influence Corporate Practices --
Gaining Internal Organizational Consensus for a Collaborative Partnership --
Identifying and Engaging Parties --
Collaborating to Build Consensus (but Not Succeeding) --
Setting Ground Rules --
Creating a Strategic Plan --
Collaborating for Financial and Environmental Benefit --
Challenges to Success: Process Difficulties --
Collaborating to Influence Public Policy --
Challenges to Success: Substantive Disputes --
Documenting the Partnership's Work --
Getting Help from Other Organizations --
Collaborating to Resolve a Conflict --
Getting Help from Individual Experts --
Evaluating Progress --
Making Environmental Collaborations Work --
Recent Environmental Collaborations.
Responsibility: Alissa J. Stern, with Tim Hicks.

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