ABSTRACT
The original motivating factor or driver, nearly every effective business-led coalition owes its creation and its ongoing success to the leadership of visionary individual champions and strategically led companies. A number of them have also been seeded and sustained by funding and support from foundations. Individual leaders from business and other sectors have played a crucial role in providing the political or financial support for the establishment of most of the business-led coalitions. Effective leaders and social entrepreneurs have also been important as first- and second-generation CEOs and managing directors of the most effective business-led coalitions. In chronicling the rise of the coalitions, it would be negligent to ignore the contribution of a number of individual corporate responsibility activists and practitioners who provided either managerial leadership or thought leadership in building business-led coalitions and in driving the corporate responsibility movement more broadly around the world.
