ABSTRACT
The growth in relations of all kinds between businesses and NGOs has taken place within an intensified period of international economic activity, commonly referred to as 'globalisation'. The term is often taken as a byword for any activity extending beyond sovereign borders in the economic, political, social or cultural domain. The fluidity of the term has led to a debate about what really is new about globalisation (Hirst and Thompson 1996). It has been suggested, for instance, that there has merely been a deepening of the trend towards internationalisation which has waxed and waned over the last century, mther than a dear break with previous eras of economic integmtion. In
• This chapter draws on Newell1999 and Newell forthcoming.
