NGO Strategies to Influence CSR

NGOs adopt different strategies in their attempt to influence the corporate to execute their
social responsibilities. There are at least eight different tactics that
various NGO’s have employed with respect to different companies in order to
encourage them to accept social responsibilities.

Arranged in order from the least to the most confrontational, they are:

·      Dialogue aimed at promoting the adoption of voluntary codes of conduct-the pure CSR
approach.

·      Advocacy of social of accounting and independent verification schemes.

·      File shareholder resolutions

·      Documentation of abuses and moral shaming.

·      Calls for boycotts of company products or divestment of stock.

·      Advocacy of government-imposed standards.

·      Advocacy of selective purchasing laws.

     Litigation seeking punitive damages.