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The UN Global Compact is the most renowned corporate social responsibility initiative in the world. Rethinking the UN Global Compact brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners who have theorised, studied and articulated critiques against the UN Global Compact's soft approach to corporate regulation. The contributors critically interrogate facets of the UN Global Compact's history, politics and practices within and beyond the United Nations. This edited book provides theoretically informed and empirically rich perspectives on the UN Global Compact politics and contemporary debates on corporate social responsibility and corporate accountability
About the author
Catia Gregoratti is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Political Science, Lund University. She has published a number of articles and book chapters on the UN Global Compact and public-private partnerships in the developing world, and the wider discourse of corporate social responsibility for development and poverty reduction. Bart Slob is a Senior Researcher at the Dutch NGO SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations) where he coordinates research activities and gives advice to governments and civil society organisations about responsible business practices in various industrial sectors. He has also been involved in setting up and coordinating several civil society networks, such as Red Puentes, OECD Watch and Global Compact Critics.
Summary
Shows how the UN has become too close to big corporations and outlines a fresh development approach.
