The United Nations Global Compact – which is a Global Public Policy Network advocating ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption – has turned into the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative. Although...

This book chapter reviews the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative. It puts a special emphasis on how to implement the six Principles in practice and what pitfalls might exist. It uses the Case of Thunderbird Global School of Management as a case example to...

This article reviews the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). It discusses the origins, purpose and content of the PRME and gives examples of how to implement the Principles. The article also discusses the PRME initiative in the context of German universities and makes the...

This paper explores how existing collaborative governance arrangements in the context of corporate responsibility (e.g., the Global Reporting Initiative and Social Accountability 8000), need to collaborate themselves more directly in order to enhance their impact. The objective of this paper is...

This chapter analyzes the appropriateness of accountability standards (e.g., SA 8000, AA 1000) for compliance and integrity driven ethics management. Based on an overview of compliance and integ-rity as two distinct strategies for ethics management, we develop a simple framework to analyze the...

The United Nations Global Compact is with currently over 6,000 voluntary participants the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative. Although having made much progress towards its goals, the Compact still faces a lot of criticism. This paper first analyzes three critical allegations...

I explore the limits of corporate responsibility standards, for example Social Accountability 8000, the Global Reporting Initiative, the Fair Labor Association workplace code, by looking at these initiatives through Derrida’s aporias of justice as set out in ‘Force of Law: The “Mystical...