All Articles About Stakeholder Relations

Case Study: Ghana Responsible Mining Alliance

Ghana is the second largest gold producing country in Africa, and the majority of its population suffers from basic developmental needs. There is a history of conflict around the mining sector in the country and a perception that local communities receive fewer benefits than they should. Two major gold mining companies and USAID/Ghana collaborated to create a tri-partite Global Development Alliance (GDA) aimed at improving the lives of Ghanaians in mining communities. Together they sought the help of BSR professionals to assess the internal capacity of alliance partners and to define key focus areas for Alliance activities. Learn more →

Posted: June 1, 2009 Topics: Mining, Stakeholder Relations

Case Study: Environmental Services, Tools, & Markets Initiative

The landmark Millennium Ecosystem Assessment—the most far-reaching ecological study ever undertaken, conducted by over 1,300 scientists around the world—found that 60 to 70 percent of environmental functions, such as natural water purification and flood protection, are being degraded faster than they can be recovered. The private sector, its customers and its suppliers rely on many of these services for consistent supply, business continuity and consumer purchasing power. BSR took on the challenge of identifying and evaluating financial mechanisms that can be applied to these services in order to capture their value through new environmental markets. Learn more →

Posted: June 1, 2009 Topics: Stakeholder Relations

Case Study: China Mobile: Advancing Corporate Responsibility Reporting

While sustainability reporting in Europe, Japan, and the United States has been common practice for years, businesses in China have begun embracing this practice recently. China Mobile issued its first corporate responsibility report in 2006, and it engaged BSR to assist with its 2007 report as a way of advancing its newest sustainability efforts. Learn more →

Posted: June 1, 2009 Topics: Information & Communications Technology, Stakeholder Relations

Blog: Stakeholder Dialogue as a Web: Reflections from Union-Company Dialogue Processes

Diane Osgood, Ph.D.

We often set up dialogue processes as two sides talking to each other: on one side the company, and on the other side civil society, government,talking at or past each other. However, my recent experience of sitting down with union leaders, leaders of union confederations, and company executives reminds me that effective stakeholder engagement resembles a web rather than a two-sided dialogue. With a web model in mind, success comes to mean something beyond just hearing each other. Read more →

Posted: April 2, 2009 | Topics: Stakeholder Relations

Blog: Facebook Is… Asking Users to Set Company Policy

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

You don’t have to be younger than 25 to know that Facebook is reshaping the way we communicate. Social networking is now mainstream, and with Facebook’s fascinating decision to open up the terms of use to definition by its users, the company may be reshaping corporate governance the same way it’s reshaped the web. Read more →

Posted: February 27, 2009 | Topics: Governance & Accountability, New Media, Stakeholder Relations