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NGO-Business Interaction for Social Change: Insights from Oxfam’s Private Sector Programme

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  • Pesqueira, Luli
  • Verburg, Johan

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For over a decade, Oxfam has increasingly interacted with the private sector as a means to address the wicked problem of poverty. For Oxfam, poverty is caused by injustice and is a consequence of people’s inability to materialize their human rights. Such rights-based approach to development shapes Oxfam’s view on how businesses can play a role in achieving socially responsible and sustainable economic progress. In this contribution, we present an overview of Oxfam’s Private Sector Programme and discuss some of its key features concerning policy and practice. In particular, we define four areas in which Oxfam’s Private Sector Programme exerts change: markets, rules, knowledge, and empowerment. We also discuss some of the risks and excuses commonly faced by Oxfam and we pose some questions for future research.

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  • Pesqueira, Luli & Verburg, Johan, 2012. "NGO-Business Interaction for Social Change: Insights from Oxfam’s Private Sector Programme," International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, vol. 15(B), pages 1-6, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ifaamr:142304
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.142304
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    1. Domenico Dentoni & Verena Bitzer & Stefano Pascucci, 2016. "Cross-Sector Partnerships and the Co-creation of Dynamic Capabilities for Stakeholder Orientation," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 135(1), pages 35-53, April.
    2. Dentoni, Domenico & Ross, R. Brent, 2013. "Towards a Theory of Managing Wicked Problems through Multi-Stakeholder Engagements: Evidence from the Agribusiness Sector," International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, vol. 16(A), pages 1-10, August.
    3. Dentoni, Domenico & Hospes, Otto & Ross, R. Brent, 2012. "Managing Wicked Problems in Agribusiness: The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Engagements in Value Creation," International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, vol. 15(B), pages 1-12, December.
    4. Kaustubh Thapa & Walter J. V. Vermeulen & Pauline Deutz, 2022. "Science with society: Challenges of early‐stage researchers engaging with transdisciplinary research in sustainability science," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(6), pages 1562-1572, December.

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