Stakeholder Politics: Social Capital, Sustainable Development, and the Corporation

by Robert Boutilier

Corporations are now publicly committed to sustainability. But, beneath the public relations happy face, executives and managers are perplexed. The majority of them have a genuine desire to work in an ethical and sustainable manner, yet, when they engage with their stakeholders for that purpose, they often encounter a world of hardball politics, full of hostile activists, self-interested elites, and unpredictable attacks.

Stakeholder Politics:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804763038
• ISBN13: 9780804763035
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"