The United Nations and Business
Towards New Modes of Global Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11470933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlos Fortin (0000-0002-1372-1371, Emeritus Fellow and Research Associate of IDS.), Richard Jolly (Honorary Professorial Fellow of IDS. From 1982-2000 he was Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, first as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and for the last five years as Special Adviser to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator and Principal Coordinator of UNDP's Human Development Report.) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 45-58 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IDS Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436 |
| Publisher | Institute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1759-5436.12143 |
| OpenAlex | W1482928807 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In the last decade and a half there have been sustained efforts on the part of the United Nations to bring the business sector into formal arrangements for dialogue and cooperation and to codify United Nations policies vis?à?vis business in order to give the relationship a more structured footing. This article reviews some of the most prominent of those efforts. In particular, it evaluates the available evidence about the extent to which they are achieving the aim of mobilising the skills and resources of private business for the furtherance of the goals of the United Nations; and about some of the main concerns raised by the UN–business interface, including the possible instrumentalisation of the relationship to gain public legitimacy or as a vehicle for business to influence United Nations policies and actions. It concludes that further research is needed to address these questions in a systematic manner
Business · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Livelihood · OpenAccess · Political science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · International Development and Aid · Finance
Private Power, Public Law
The Private Regulation of Global Corporate Conduct
Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship and the Global Compact
The UN Global Compact and the Global Governance of Corporate Social Responsibility
Global_governance.net
Just Business
Network learning
The Global Compact
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |