Cross Sector Partnership Case Study

Table of Contents
Foreword
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Chapter 1 – 1. Introduction 1.1 Structure of the Paper 1.2 Management Problem 1.3 Research Objective 1.4 Research Questions 1.5 Methodology

Chapter 2 - 2. Literature Review 2.1 Stakeholder Theory 2.2 Theoretical Overview of Corporate Social Responsibility 2.3 Creating Shared Value 2.4 Cross Sector Partnership as Part of CSR 2.5 Conceptual Model

Chapter 3 – 3. Research Methodology

Chapter 4 - 4.1 Factors Promoting Cross Sector Partnership 4.2 Factors Limiting Cross Sector Partnership 4.3 Growth Model for Cross Sector Partnership

Chapter 5 - 5. Applicability of the Growth Model 5.1 Empirical Research Results
Chapter 6 – 6. Discussion
Chapter

Jeurissen, 2007), wherein by saying “business stakeholder” it is understood “any party whose interests are affected by business’s actions or subjects that impact interests of the business themselves”. Jeurissen goes further and distinguishes economic or social stakeholders depending on their relationship to the business. The Economic stakeholders are “all those parties that invest in economic traffic of the business as well as share part of the risk. The characteristics of relationship with the economic stakeholder implies economic exchange. While social stakeholders are those that do not have any business involvement in the business, but do have an interest in what the business does in some way. The term stakeholder will be used in terms of Social Stakeholder in this

Luckily, the transformation of MNC’s business approaches has been changing drastically during the previous decades as a result of forming demanding culture in modern societies and actions of responsible people within the corporations. As an illustration of global progress in the field is the fact that more than 1400 companies participated in UN’s Global Compact initiative with half of them from developing countries (Gearing Up, The global Compact 2004). Also, 400 companies have been using Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) guidelines for reporting the social and environmental activities and policies. There is a growing consensus amongst the profit organizations on the necessity to collaborate with the non-traditional stakeholders, such as employees, customers, non-profit organizations, community active groups,