About this blog

  • Thinking Ethics was a project launched in Geneva to foster the debate about ethics. A few friends, fed up with only reading about abuses in the media, decided to hold a forward-looking seminar on five subjects: ethics and performance, ethics and knowledge, ethics and consciousness, ethics and disobedience and ethics in real time. If moral has to do with right and wrong, then ethics is its application in society. We believe that people need to talk about the subject to determine the level of ethics they want. The book Thinking Ethics, a result of the seminar, is to start the discussion. This blog is a contribution to the conversation.
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Authors

  • Andrea Spencer-Cooke
  • Pascal Marmier
  • Kelly Richdale
  • Stephen Whittle
  • Steve Bowbrick
  • Beth Krasna

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September 27, 2008

Stakeholder of the global society

When Klaus Schwab, the founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland launched his organization in 1971, he was promoting the partnership or stakeholder concept. An idea that was incredibly novel at the time. He now goes further in a talk at the Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and calls for stakeholders of the global society - check out his speech "Innovation, collaboration and new forms of governance" here.

Comments

I have a question concerning a point in your book "Thinking Ethics". I think examples were given concerning change;feminist movement etc..the point being that these movements are not really at the top of the food chain. The one mentioned is the Orange Movement which in effect was a major change. How to change governments, companies at the top to exemplify non-violent change?

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