Sub-theme 10: (SWG) Collaboration and Confrontation: Dynamic Interactions between Corporations and Non-Governmental Organizations

Convenors:
Frank de Bakker, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frank den Hond, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
Marie-France Turcotte, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Session I: Thursday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, G3-21
About Collaboration
Chair: Frank de Bakker
Alireza Ahadsimab
Where animosity becomes affinity: Competition between logics in firm-NGO partnerships
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): François Maon
Florian Krause and Axel Haunschild
Cooperations between companies and NGOs as vehicle for good working conditions and environmental protection? Insights from German trade unions
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Frédéric Dalsace
Federica Foce Massa Saluzzo
Institutional logics and sensemaking
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Arno Kourula
Session II: Thursday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, G3-21
NGOs & Corporations: The Idealist View
Chair: Daniel Arenas
Lutz Preuss, Chris Rees and Michael Gold
Civil society organisations shaping corporate social responsibility: A comparison of NGO and trade union involvement
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Florian Krause
Iteke van Hille, Frank de Bakker and Julie Ferguson
Leading them out of the woods: Emergent institutional entrepreneurshp in cross-sector collaboration
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Martin Fougère
Mariana Escobar, Frédéric Le Roy and Emmanuelle Cheyns
An exploration of competing interactions between NGOs in market advocacy contexts
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rashedur Chowdhury
Niino Antadze, Haiying Lin and Oana Branzei
A moral perspective on convening pro-environmental collaboration
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marie-France Turcotte
Session III: Thursday, July 03, 16:00 to 17:30, G3-21
NGOs & Corporations: Strategies and Tactics
Chair: Heidi Herlin
Jennifer Goodman, Tessa Hebb and Andreas Hoepner
Participation and discourse in shareholder engagement: Behind the scenes at ICCR
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lisa Sezer
Frédéric Dalsace, Nicola Dragonetti and Clémence Patureau
Sliding and weaving: Managing social ventures in NGO-firm alliances
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mariana Escobar
Daniel Arenas, Matthew Murphy and Kety Jáuregui
Peruvian rural communities and mining companies: The role of social skill
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lutz Preuss
François Maon
"Funny or die"? Humor as a double-edged sword in social movements: The case of Occupy Wall Street
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Julie Uldam
Session IV: Friday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, G3-21
Corporations & NGOs: How and Why?
Chair: Marie-France Turcotte
Yuna Fontoura and Steffen Böhm
Contested governance of GMO Food: The role of international environmental NGOs
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Heidi Herlin
Rashedur Chowdhury and Andrew C. Wicks
Recreation of routines: A process model for marginalized stakeholder group
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Javed Iqbal
Julie Uldam
Social media and corporate responses to civil society criticism: The case of 'big oil' and the climate justice movement
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Yuna Fontoura
Session V: Friday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, G3-21
Corporations & NGOs: The Critical and Political Views
Chair: Julie Uldam
Arno Kourula and Jukka Mäkinen
Political foundations of civil society in cross-sector interaction
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Joost Luyckx
Guillaume Delalieux and Pauline Blottière
Insurance companies as allies of ENGOs to reverse the historic block of oil and automotive industries in a neo-gramscian perspective: A cross (counter) examination
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jennifer Goodman
José Carlos Marques
A league of their own: Private regulatory initiatives' non-market strategies
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Federica Foce Massa Saluzzo
Session VI: Saturday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, G3-21
Discourse and Legitimacy
Chair: Arno Kourula
Heidi Herlin
The environmental movement and business: Tracing discursive transformations of the World Wide Fund For Nature
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Frank de Bakker
Javed Iqbal and Lorraine Warren
Lost in multiple institutional logics: Legitimating NGOs field in conflict-affected regions of Pakistan
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Alireza Ahmadsimab
Joost Luyckx and Maddy Janssens
Legitimacy of multinational companies as a class: Rhetorical strategies to establish a positive actor image in the public debate
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Guillaume Delalieux
Session VII: Saturday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, G3-21
Multi-actors Governance
Chair: Frank den Hond
Georg von Schnurbein and Steffen Bethmann
Embeddedness or independence: Rethinking the role of corporate foundations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): José Carlos Marques
Lisa Sezer
Business associations in Turkey: Social movement tactics, social networks and regional development
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Georg von Schnurbein
Martin Fougère
Multistakeholder governance on sustainable palm oil through the lens of agonistic pluralism
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Daniel Arenas