The UN Commission on Transnational Corporations which was appointed by ECOSOC will have its next meeting in May. An Intergovernmental Working Group will have held ten sessions by then and present a draft Code of Conduct dealing with transnational corporations. (For a review of the state of...

While voluntary behavior and social responsibility have so far played a peripheral role in multinational corporations' global strategies, the author argues that the non-market social responsibility dimension will have to be incorporated systematically in management’s forward planning as a...

Sustainable development at both the national and the global level is increasingly acknowledged to be dependent upon the international trade system. The WTO Agreements and the continuing discussion in the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment are therefore examined here in the light of...