The United Nations Global Compact

Andreas Rasche is Assistant Professor of Business in Society at Warwick Business School and since 2007 has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Global Compact Office in New York. He received his PhD in Strategic Management and Corporate Responsibility from the European Business School, Germany. His research focuses on global governance and transnational organizational regulation in the context of contested global issues. He has published widely in leading international journals on corporate responsibility and has guest edited special issues of various journals. Georg Kell is the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact. His career with the United Nations began in 1987 at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. In 1997, Mr Kell joined the Office of the UN Secretary-General in New York, where he spearheaded the development of new strategies to enhance private sector engagement with the work of the United Nations. As one of the Global Compact's key architects, he has led the initiative since its launch in 2000. A native of Germany, he holds advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.

'This timely book reviews the UN Global Compact's strengths and shortcomings over its first decade and provides helpful guidance for all committed to mainstreaming responsible business practices and achieving real change through multistakeholder initiatives.' Mary Robinson, President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, Former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

• List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; List of abbreviations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword H. E. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Why this book matters! Eric Cornuel; The ten principles of the UN Global Compact; 1. Introduction: the United Nations Global Compact: retrospect and prospect Andreas Rasche and Georg Kell; Part I. Achievements, Trends and Challenges: Reflections on the Principles: 2. Making sense of the Global Compact human rights principles Klaus Leisinger, Aron Cramer and Faris Natour; 3. The promise of the Global Compact - a trade union perspective on the labour principles Guy Ryder; 4. The Global Compact environmental principles - achievements, trends and challenges Gregory Unruh; 5. 'Caring for Climate' - the business leadership platform Claude Fussler; 6. Anti-corruption - challenges and trends Huguette Labelle; Part II. Participants and Engagement Mechanisms: 7. Implementing the United Nations Global Compact Carolyn Y. Woo; 8. Academic institutions and the UN Global Compact - the principles for responsible management education Regina Wentzel Wolfe and Patricia H. Werhane; 9. Corporate responsibility and the business school agenda Birgit Kleymann and Pierre Tapie (with a comment by Eric Cornuel); 10. NGOs and the Global Compact - the link between civil society and corporations Oded Grajew; 11. Financial markets and the Global Compact - the principles for responsible investment James Gifford; 12. Learning from the roundtables on the sustainable enterprise economy - the UN Global Compact and the next ten years Malcolm McIntosh and Sandra Waddock; 13. The United Nations Global Compact as a learning approach Guido Palazzo and Andreas Georg Scherer; Part III. Governance and Communication on Progress: 14. The Global Compact's governance framework and integrity measures Ursula Wynhoven and Matthias Stausberg; 15. The Global Compact communication on progress policy - origins, trends and challenges Uzma Hamid and Oliver Johner; 16. COP reporting in action - the case of Petrobras Ana Paula Grether; 17. The Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative Paul Hohnen; Part IV. Local Networks: The Emerging Global-Local Link: 18. Building the Global Compact local network model - history and highlights Nessa Whelan; 19. The Global Compact as a network of networks Dirk Ulrich Gilbert; 20. Running a Global Compact local network - insights from the experience in Germany Constanze J. Helmchen; 21. Building corporate citizenship through the UN Global Compact - contributions and lessons learnt from the Argentinean local network Flavio Fuertes and Nicolás Liarte-Vejrup; 22. Concluding remarks - from alleviating the negative impacts of globalization to transforming markets Ernst Brugger and Peter Maurer; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.