The United Nations Global Compact Initiative evolved from a challenge posed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to business communities at the Davos World Economic Forum in January 1999. "I call on you - individually through your firms, and collectively through your business associations - to...

This study analyzes which firms leave multi-stakeholder initiatives for corporate social responsibility. Based on an analysis of all active and delisted business participants from the United Nations Global Compact between 2000 and 2015 (n=15,853), we find that small and medium-sized enterprises...

Human rights norms are today a central aspect of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda. After decades of exclusive attention to the behavior of states, human rights activists began during the late 1980s and 1990s to increase their pressures on corporate actors and demand commitment to...

This open access book focuses on the issue of sustainability standards from the perspective of both global governance frameworks and emerging economies. It stems from the recognition that the accelerated pace of economic globalization has generated production and consumption patterns that are...

1. Introduction -- 2. Resilient finance in responsible investments -- 3. The future of resilient finance -- 4. International developments -- 5. Environmental financialization -- 6. Finance diplomacy: the politics and international relations of finance -- 7. General discussion and future prospects.

I conducted a multiple case study to assess the role of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in global governance – the collective rule-making and rule-implementation among public and private actors on a global scale. Results of a sample of ‘best-practice’ SMEs in the textile...

In this paper, I theoretically discuss the emerging role of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as private actors in global governance – referring to the collective rule-making and rule-implementation among public and private actors on a global scale. Drawing on the theoretical concepts...

The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is a Global Public Policy Network supporting ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labor standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption. Networks such as the UNGC are an organizational form with distinct structural properties...