Partnership and Leadership: Building Alliances for a Sustainable Future

315 Pages·2002·9.43 MB·English

by  Theo De Bruijn

PARTNERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP
ECO-EFFICIENCY IN INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE
VOLUME8
The titles published in this series are listed at tlze end of this volume.
Partnership and Leadership
Building Alliances for a Sustainable Future
Edited by
Theo J.N.M. de Bruijn
Center for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy,
University ofTwente,
Enschede, The Netherlands
and
Arnold Tukker
TNO Institute ofStrategy, Technology and Policy,
Delft, The Netherlands
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-5938-3 ISBN 978-94-017-2545-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2545-3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 5
Introduction: Collaboration as the New Paradigm in Industrial
Transformation
Theo de Bruijn and Arnold Tukker
PART 1: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES
Chapter 2 21
Environmental Collaboration: Potential and Limits
Cathy L. Hartman, Peter S. Hofman and Edwin R. Sta.fford
Chapter 3 41
In Search of 'Win-Win': Multistakeholder Environmental
Partnerships and the Pursuit of Sustainability
Eric C. Poncelet
Chapter4 61
Re-interpreting Local-Giobal Partnerships
Susse Georg and Alan Irwin
Chapter 5 77
Sustainable Business: Learning-Action Networks as
Organisational Assets
Nigel Roome and Sarah Clarke
Chapter 6 103
Organising Interfirm Learning: As the Market Begins to
Turn Green
Maj Munch Andersen
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PART 2: COLLABORAT ION ALONG THE V ALUE CHAIN
Chapter 7 121
Conditions for Learning Partnerships: The Introduction of
Organic Food by a Swiss Retailer
Sirnone Maier
Chapter 8 135
Environmental Adaptation in Supplier-Customer Relationships
Louise Canning and Stuart Hanmer-Lloyd
Chapter 9 157
Sunny Developments: The Diffusion of Photovoltaic Technologies
in The Netherlands
Joanneke Kruijsen
Chapter 10 177
A Model of an Environmental Business Support Network:
Evaluating Partnership Approach in Industrial South Wales
Frances Hines
Chapter 11 195
Partners in Pollution Prevention: Increasing Environmental
Capabilities of SMEs through Collaboration
Theo de Bruijn and Peter S. Hofman
PART 3: MULTISTAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION
Chapter 12 217
Neither Satan nor Santa: Shell, Competitive Advantage and
Stakeholders in the Peruvian Amazon
Marilu Hastings
Chapter 13 237
Lessons from a broken Partnership: The Case of ARET
Marie-France Turcotte and Basmah Ali
Chapter 14 251
Establishing and Maintaining Cross-Sectoral Actor Networks:
Towards Sustainable Development in European Tourism Sector
Zinaida Fadeeva and Minna Halme
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Chapter 15 273
Stakeholder Involvement and Alliances for Sustainable
Households: The Case of Shopping, Cooking and Eating
Jaco Quist, Ken Green, Ktara Szita T6th and William Young
Chapter 16 295
Conclusions: The Prospects of Collaboration
Arnold Tukker and Theo de Bruijn
Biographies 315
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
Collaboration as the New Paradigm in Industrial Transformation
THEO DE BRUUN
ARNOLDTUKKER
1. BACKGROUND OF THE BOOK PROJECT
Sustainable development has become a central perspective in
environmental strategies around the world. In order to reach for sustainable
development fundamental changes are needed in current production and
consumption structures. It is clear that govemments nor businesses have the
capacity to engage society in such a transformational process on their own.
Therefore, collaboration has emerged as a central concept in many strategies.
At the same time it is obvious that someone has to take the lead in the
development towards sustainability. Thus, partnership and leadership are
strongly related concepts. This book describes different forms of
collaboration ernerging between various actors in order to transform the
industrial production system. The objective of the book is to systematically
explore the different roles and relationships between partnership and
leadership. The main question we put forward is to what extent they
contribute to the process of sustainable development.
The idea of this book was bom at the seventh International Conference of
the Greening of Industry Network that took place in Rome, Italy, November
15-18, 1998. This conference focused on transformation processes and the
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roles of different actors in such processes. The main theme of the conference
was the engagement of partners in the transition of society towards
sustainability. This transformation requires the co-operation, perseverance
and dedication of all parties involved, and the development of new
procedures, institutions and cultures needed for a productive co-operation.
Options for this and routes towards it were explored during plenary sessions,
breakout sessions and workshops devoted to the building of alliances in a
global, regional and local setting.
Next to a conceptual part, the book brings together case sturlies from
around the world. Its focus is on describing and understanding various
formats of collaboration and critically evaluating its effects and prospects.
The book is in part an edited version of selected papers presented during the
GIN conference in Rome on the subject, enriched with contributions of other
invited authors.
2. COLLABORATION AND INDUSTRIAL
TRANSFORMATION
Since the late 1960s major changes have taken place in environmental
strategies. Where initially environmental action consisted of isolated
activities of minor concem, it has now developed into a field for strategic
action by both govemments and business. The issue at stake has changed
drastically: from taking care of local nuisance problems to global problems
that are strongly related to economic and social issues. Ever since the
publication of the report Our common future (World Commission on
Environment and Development - Commission Brundtland, 1987) and the
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in
Rio de Janeiro in 1992, sustainable development has become the central
perspective in national and international environmental strategies. Modem
approaches aim at providing basic human needs by ensuring economic
growth within ecological boundaries. Important changes in production and
consumption systems are required in order to meet the needs and aspirations
of a growing world population while using environmental resources in a
sustainable manner (IHDP Industrial Transformation Science Plan 1999: xi).
The challenge is to develop strategies through which society can combine
economic and social development with the reduction of pressure on the
environment. De-linking economical development from its negative extemal
effects such as environmental pressures is essential. Obviously, such
strategies exceed the capacity of individual actors. Both govemments and
industry therefore embrace the concept of collaboration.