| Titre | Les réseaux transnationaux des ONG et le rôle joué par le facteur « savoir » dans la contestation menée contre les multinationales : l'exemple de la Coordination contre les risques de Bayer (CRB) | |
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| Auteur | Stephan Langer | |
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Revue | Annales de géographie |
| Numéro | no 668, 2009/4 Les ONG | |
| Page | 414-429 | |
| Résumé anglais |
In the last few years non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become
powerful actors influencing not only political decisions on various spatial and
political scales, but also the strategic decisions taken by managers of multinational
corporations. Although limited in number and restricted by relatively small
financial resources, ngos have managed to organize themselves in transnational
networks that enable them to exchange information and thereby create knowledge
which is used effectively in campaigns against multinational corporations. The
following article summarizes the results of a research project which focused on the
NGO Coordination Against BAYER-Dangers (CBG) which is linked with numerous
actors all over the world that are situated in places where the German chemical
enterprise BAYER is either represented by a branch factory or a subcontractor.
On the theoretical basis of relevant aspects of network theory and an overview
concerning research on knowledge and knowledge transfer, the project was
supposed to give answers to questions such as how the different actors in
transnational ngo-networks work together. How exactly does the transfer of
knowledge among the participants of the network take place and in which way is
it modified to become a powerful tool against their opponents ? Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=AG_668_0414 |
