Business and Public–Private Partnerships for Sustainability: Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility?

Elsig, Manfred; Amalric, Franck (2008). Business and Public–Private Partnerships for Sustainability: Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility? Global Society, 22(3), pp. 387-404. Carfax Publ. Co. 10.1080/13600820802090538

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This article analyses public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the field of sustainable development from an international relations perspective with insights from the business and ethics literature. We argue that the role of business in these types of arrangements has not been sufficiently explored. After presenting three ways of approaching PPPs to stress the many facets of partnerships across the public–private divide, we discuss the emergence of these novel forms of governance from a demand side and contrast such a functionalist reading with the supply side. Then we look at the micro-economic incentives for corporations to engage in such endeavours. We develop arguments derived from the dominant literature to provide an analytical framework for explaining business participation. Finally, we discuss the role of PPPs in light of input and output legitimacy. We conclude by alluding to the emergence of an expectation-capacity gap and normative issues related to the global PPP architecture.

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