The United Nations Global Compact by Andreas Rasche, Georg Ke... - 9780521145534

The United Nations Global CompactAchievements, Trends and Challenges\nAuthor(s): Andreas Rasche, Georg Kell, Ban Ki-moon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521145534, 978-0521145534\nSynopsis\nThe 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 [tel] 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 .