June 2002, Simon Zadek and Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has commissioned this report to better understand the trends unfolding in corporate-multilateral partnerships, focusing on the potential benefits of such relationships, and how best to achieve them. Project methodology includes:
- Analysis of case studies across sectors and types of collaboration.
- Discussions with selected participants in case study collaborations and with experts in the field.
- Research of key reports and other documentation on business-multilateral partnerships.
- The Partnership Imperative summarizes the historic approach of the UN towards business and emerging forms of engagement.
- It Takes Two to Tango explores some of the practical lessons emerging from the case studies such as to how to make partnerships work.
- Analyzing Risk and Return provides a simple tool for assessing potential risks and returns from engagement that could be used by businesses, multilaterals and indeed other partners, illustrating its application with case-study material.
- Near Futures summarizes some of the key developments needed to secure more effective partnerships that deliver both short-term business and development benefits, and longer-term, strategic gains.
