International Documents on Corporate Responsibility
International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Author: Stephen Tully

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 1845428293

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International Documents on Corporate Responsibility includes the principal international, regional and national instruments drafted by intergovernmental organisations or states as well as codes of conduct formulated by industry associations, trade unions and non-governmental organisations. The coverage includes the fields of human rights, international criminal and environmental law, labour standards, international trade, armed conflict, sustainable development, corruption, consumer protection and corporate governance. Each document is accompanied by a brief explanatory commentary outlining the historical origins of the instrument, the principal actors involved, controversial negotiation issues, applicable implementation procedure, and identifies further reference material.

Documents
Documents

Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Council

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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The UN and Transnational Corporations
The UN and Transnational Corporations

Author: Tagi Sagafi-nejad

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-10-16

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0253000696

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Are transnational corporations (TNCs) and foreign direct investment beneficial or harmful to societies around the world? Since the birth of the United Nations more than 60 years ago, these questions have been major issues of interest and involvement for UN institutions. What have been the key ideas generated by the UN about TNCs and their relations with nation-states? How have these ideas evolved and what has been their impact? This book examines the history of UN engagement with TNCs, including the creation of the UN Commission and Centre on Transnational Corporations in 1974, the failed efforts of these bodies to craft a code of conduct to temper the revealed abuses of TNCs, and, with the advent of globalization in the 1980s, the evolution of a more cooperative relationship between TNCs and developing countries, resulting in the 1999 Global Compact.

1983/87
1983/87

Author: Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations)

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13:

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The Multinational Enterprise and Legal Control
The Multinational Enterprise and Legal Control

Author: Cynthia Day Wallace

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2002-04-02

Total Pages: 1364

ISBN-13: 9789041117892

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This long-awaited new book from Cynthia Day Wallace picks up the thread of her best-selling "Legal Control of the Multinational Enterprise: National Regulatory Techniques and the Prospects for International Controls," In the present work she applies herself to legal and pragmatic aspects of control surrounding MNE operations. The primary focus is on legal and administrative techniques and measures practised by host states to control - transparently or less so - foreign MNE activity within their territories, or even extraterritorially when effects are felt within national boundaries. The primary geographic focus is the six most investment-intensive industrialized states (namely, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom). At the same time an important message of the present study is precisely the implication for the developing countries as well as for the emerging market economies of central and eastern Europe - and even Asian nations besides Japan, because it is the sharing of this very 'experience of years' that can best serve to facilitate a fuller participation on the part of the up-and-coming economies in the same global market place.

United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations
United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations

Author: Khalil Hamdani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1317528271

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The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) was established in 1975 and abolished in 1992. It was an early effort by the UN to address the overlapping issues of national sovereignty, corporate responsibility and global governance. These issues have since multiplied and deepened with globalization. This book recounts the UNCTC experience and its lessons for international organizations. This book is not only an insider perspective by two former staff but also a collective memoir of the UNCTC as an international organization that attempted with varying success to defuse the clash between corporates and states that erupted in the turbulent 1970s. This personal account of the UNCTC is a mixture of history, analysis, reflections, and critical commentaries, told in different voices that penetrate the bland persona of international civil service. In this retelling, the authors seek to address misconceptions amongst the more general literature and to seek to provide accounts of both its positive and negative features. The UNCTC experience recounted in this book holds valuable lessons for international organization and will be of interest to student, scholars and practitioners alike.

Making Corporate Social Responsibility a Global Concern
Making Corporate Social Responsibility a Global Concern

Author: Lisbeth Segerlund

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1317102517

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In recent decades, claims have increasingly been made on transnational corporations to take responsibility for the promotion and protection of human and labour rights in countries where they operate. This behavioural obligation results from the persistent advocacy of non-governmental organizations and is commonly known as corporate social responsibility (CSR). Driven by the theory of the 'norm life cycle model', the book uses an interesting range of case studies, including Nike and the anti-apartheid movement, to trace the development of CSR as an international norm. The development is examined through five selected non-governmental organizations: Clean Clothes Campaign, Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International, Global Exchange, International Business Leaders Forum and the International Labor Rights Fund. The book makes a lucid contribution to an emerging scholarship, and will interest researchers and practitioners involved in issues of global governance and global civil society.

Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights
Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights

Author: Mpazi Sinjela

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9004162909

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This collection explores this balance and the extent to which human rights standards can influence the interpretation of IP norms, for example in defining the scope of IPRs."--BOOK JACKET.