ABSTRACT
Cowe 1996: 17). Similarly, since the outcry over Shell's operations in Ogoniland, both before and after the Nigerian government executed environmental activist Ken SaroWiwa, the company has consulted with Amnesty International on its business principles
the strongly antagonistic to the 'strangely' collaborative. In the following pages there are examples of international NGOs, such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, as well as local groups in both industrialised and less industrialised countries, all pursuing sophisticated market-oriented strategies to pursue their objectives. Examples of stakeholder pressure on timber companies (Chapter 4), biotechnology companies (Chapters 6 and q), mining companies {Chapter 5), and companies investing in countries with repressive regimes (Chapter 3) are provided, as well as the case of an NGO action against a proposed intergovernmental agreement on investment {Chapter 3). However, the main focus of this book is on how and why companies are working with stakeholder pressure for sustainable development, by collaborating with NGOs on various initiatives.
