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The Business of Advocacy: A Case Study of Greenpeace

The Business of Advocacy: A Case Study of Greenpeace
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Author(s): Kiru Pillay (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)and Manoj Maharaj (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 17
Source title: Analyzing the Strategic Role of Social Networking in Firm Growth and Productivity
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vladlena Benson (University of West London, UK), Ronald Tuninga (Kingston Business School, UK)and George Saridakis (Kingston University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0559-4.ch004

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Abstract

Online advocacy is big business. Online advocacy organisations need to structure themselves along business lines for fund raising, and to strategically utilise their online and traditional resources to achieve their goals. The growing influence of civil society organisations has been fuelled largely by an increase and ubiquity of emerging technologies. There is no evidence of a detailed analysis of social media led advocacy campaigns in the literature. The global environmental justice organisation, Greenpeace is used as a case study. The rise of online social media has provided the organisation with an alternative to traditional mass media. There have been some notable successes for Greenpeace. The most recent of which has been its efforts to halt the drilling for oil in the Arctic. Equally the Greenpeace campaigns have sometimes provoked the public ire, for example in their miscalculation of the fallout over their recent Nazca plains intrusion. It is clear that to attain any level of success the organisation needs to structure itself on sound business principles and strategies.

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