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California Management Review: NGOs: to fight or to flee
Debora L. Spar and Lane T. La Mure
Douglas WestUniversity of Westminster
Despite the perception that NGOs (nongovernmental organisations) are a modern (even postmodern) phenomenon, they in fact have a long history dating back 400 years. NGOs organise around ideas generally a collective agreement to some shared belief or principle. What distinguishes them from other organisations is their membership: they are not drawn from government, business, notforprofit or political sectors. Over recent years, NGOs have forced firms to make decisions in new ways and factor in...