UNCTC Work on the Code of Conduct and Related Issues
Author: Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations)
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13:
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International Documents on Corporate Responsibility
Author: Stephen Tully
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 1845428293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
UNEP's New Way Forward
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9789280715248
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Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Council
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 300
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Author: Arghyrios A. Fatouros
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780415085533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Legal Relationships Between Transnational Corporations and Host States
Author: P. Ebow Bondzi-Simpson
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1990-11-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the complex legal issues involved in the relationships between multinational corporations and the host countries in which they operate. The author uses real case examples to identify some of the problems inherent in these often fragile relationships and to enumerate and critique the international initiatives that have endeavored to address them. In addition, the author develops new juridical responses to seemingly intractable problems in such areas as the renegotiation of contracts, transfer pricing, the environment, and repatriation of profits.
The UN and Transnational Corporations
Author: Tagi Sagafi-nejad
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-10-16
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0253000696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations
Author: Khalil Hamdani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1317528271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Author: Lisbeth Segerlund
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1317102517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
BRICS and the New American Imperialism
Author: Vishwas Satgar
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2020-03-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 177614564X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It offers novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as climate change and water scarcity), contradictory dynamics inside BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance. The authors revisit contemporary thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism, drawing on the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary nature of capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries. The richness of Luxemburg’s pioneering work inspires most of the volume’s contributors in their analyses of the dangerous contradictions of the contemporary world as well as forms of democratic agency advancing resistance. While various forms of resistance are highlighted, among them water protests, mass worker strikes, anti-corporate campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this volume grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers the prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build global convergence. It also explores the prospects of a Fifth International of Peoples and Workers.
