The United Nations global compact : achievements, trends and challenges /
edited by Andreas Rasche and Georg Kell.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- xxxi, 439 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
p. 1. Achievements, trends and challenges : reflections on the principles. Making sense of the United Nations Global Compact human rights principles / The promise of the United Nations Global Compact : a trade union perspective on the labour principles / The United Nations Global Compact environmental principles : achievements, trends and challenges / 'Caring for climate' : the business leadership platform / Anti-corruption : challenges and trends / Implementing the United Nations Global Compact / Academic institutions and the United Nations Global Compact : the principles for responsible management education / Corporate responsibility and the business school agenda / NGOs and the United Nations Global Compact : the link between civil society and corporations / Financial markets and the United Nations Global Compact : the principles for responsible investment / Learning from the roundtables on the sustainable enterprise economy : the United Nations Global Compact and the next ten years / The United Nations Global Compact as a learning approach / The United Nations Global Compact's governance framework and integrity measures / The United Nations Global Compact communication on progress policy : origins, trends and challenges / COP reporting in action : the case of Petrobras / The United Nations Global Compact and the global reporting initiative / Building the United Nations Global Compact local network model : history and highlights / The United Nations Global Compact as network of networks / Running a Global Compact local network : insights from the experience in Germany / Building corporate citizenship through the United Nations Global Compact : contributions and lessons learned from the Argentinean local network / Concluding remarks : from alleviating the negative impacts of globalization to transforming markets / Klaus Leisinger, Aron Cramer and Faris Natour ; Guy Ryder ; Gregory C. Unruh ; Claude Fussler ; Huguette Labelle -- p. 2. Participants and engagement mechanisms. Carolyn Y. Woo ; Regina Wentzel Wolfe and Patricia H. Werhane ; Birgit Kleymann and Pierre Tapie (with a comment by Eric Cornuel) ; Oded Grajew ; James Gifford ; Malcolm McIntosh and Sandra Waddock ; Guido Palazzo and Andreas Georg Scherer -- p. 3. Governance and communication on progress. Ursula Wynhoven and Matthias Stausberg ; Uzma Hamid and Oliver Johner ; Ana Paula Grether Carvalho ; Paul Hohnen -- p. 4. Local networks : the emerging global-local link. Nessa Whelan ; Dirk Ulrich Gilbert ; Constanze J. Helmchen ; Flavio Fuertes and Nicolás Liarte-Vejrup ; Ernst A. Brugger and Peter Maurer.
The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative that encourages businesses to support ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labor standards, the environment, and anti-corruption. It is the world's largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative with more than 7,500 business and non-business participants in over 130 countries. This book reviews the first ten years of the Compact's existence (2000–2010) by presenting exclusively commissioned chapters from well-known scholars, practitioners from the business world and civil society, and Global Compact staff. They reflect on what the Global Compact has achieved, what trends it may have to respond to, and what challenges are ahead. The book contains not only up-to-date reflections but also debates recent changes to the structure of the Compact, including the Communication on Progress policy, the role of Global Compact Local Networks, and the role of emerging specialized initiatives.