Abstract:
This paper reports on the results of a study on collaboration between corporations, local
communities and other stakeholders. On evidence from this study, we argue that networked
community-based organisations are the key element in developing successful corporate relationships
with other stakeholders in terms of knowledge creation for environmental sustainability. We relate
this success to the embeddedness, depth of involvement and the shared sense of purpose enabled by
community-based networks. We identify important skills which facilitate this new knowledge
becoming incorporated into ongoing, reflexive management practices needed in the arena of
'subpolitics'. Finally, we challenge the assumption that decentralised forms of decision-making
allow for democratisation of environmental decision-making and knowledge creation.
