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Rasche, Andreas (2009) "A necessary supplement" : what the United Nations global compact is and is not. Business & Society, Vol.48 (No.4). pp. 511-537. doi:10.1177/0007650309332378
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0007650309332378
Abstract
The United Nations Global Compact is with currently more than 6,000 voluntary participants the world's largest corporate citizenship initiative. This article first analyzes three critical allegations often made against the Compact by looking at the academic and nonacademic literature. (1) The Compact supports the capture of the United Nations by "big business." (2) Its 10 principles are vague and thus hard to implement. (3) The Compact is not accountable due to an absence of verification mechanisms. This article discusses these three allegations and argues that they rest on a misunderstanding of (a) the nature of the Compact as well as its mandate and (b) the goals it tries to achieve. From this discussion of what the Compact is not, the article then outlines a perspective that classifies the initiative as a necessary supplement to incomplete state and nonstate regulatory approaches in order to illustrate what the Compact is.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > International Centre for Governance & Public Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Global Compact, Social responsibility of business, Business networks | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Business & Society | ||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Inc | ||||
| ISSN: | 0007-6503 | ||||
| Official Date: | December 2009 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.48 | ||||
| Number: | No.4 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 27 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 511-537 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0007650309332378 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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