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Corporate Social Responsibility CSR is to a great extent based on dialogues on ethics between different stakeholders such as CEO’s of companies, investors, trade unions, media, NGO's, governments, international governmental organizations, academic researchers, religious communities etc. Different actors represent different kinds of dialogue such as an investor’s dialogue, a consumer's dialogue or a multi stakeholder dialogue. Different objectives and strategies lead to different forms of dialogue such as explorative dialogue, learning dialogue, confrontational dialogue or a dialogue which aims at common action. For the last 25 years I have been involved in dialogues between companies and different stakeholders such as CEO’s, advisory councils, NGO's, churches and investors from local to global level, from SME's to global leaders, from Fair Trade initiatives to the World Economic Forum. In the following contribution, criteria and conditions are developed in order to make dialogues on ethical issues between companies and stakeholders fruitful, successful and ethically responsible. This will be done throughout the following steps: 1) experiences, 2) three cases, 3) a typology, 4-9) value-based ethical criteria for dialogues.
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2008
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