Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349628123
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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When 51 nations gathered in 1945 to witness the birth of the United Nations, international business groups urged governments to ratify the UN Charter without delay. During the following 55 years, UN and business leaders dismissed each other when they were not engaging in a war of words. This book examines why the global order of the 21st century demands a new partnership between the UN and business. If the UN fails to engage the business community, it is likely to become irrelevant. If global corporations y refuse to support the UN, they will face a closing world with disastrous consequences for the prosperity of all. The UN and business are bound to work together, and indeed they are.
Author: Jan Martin Witte
Publisher: UN
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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The United Nations is currently undergoing the most significant transformation since its founding in San Francisco in 1945, as it aims to become a more effective and accountable institution. The end of the Cold War and the ongoing process of globalization have fundamentally transformed the environment within which the world body operates. One component of this process has been the progressive opening of the Organization to non-governmental actors, including civil society and business. Partnerships with business and civil society are seen as vital to getting the job done. This report identifies four functions for partnerships: advocacy, developing norms and standards, sharing and coordinating resources and expertise and harnessing markets for development. Partnerships have allowed the United Nations to become increasingly creative and sophisticated in its attempts to leverage the skills and resources of business and civil society toward the goals of the organisation. They have become a catalyst for reform and institutional innovation across the entire United Nations system, but much remains to be done before the process of structural and cultural transformation is complete.
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312230715
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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When 51 nations gathered in 1945 to witness the birth of the United Nations, international business groups urged governments to ratify the UN Charter without delay. During the following 55 years, UN and business leaders dismissed each other when they were not engaging in a war of words. This book examines why the global order of the 21st century demands a new partnership between the UN and business. If the UN fails to engage the business community, it is likely to become irrelevant. If global corporations y refuse to support the UN, they will face a closing world with disastrous consequences for the prosperity of all. The UN and business are bound to work together, and indeed they are.
Author: Sandrine Tesner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349628148
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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When 51 nations gathered in 1945 to witness the birth of the United Nations, international business groups urged governments to ratify the UN Charter without delay. During the following 55 years, UN and business leaders dismissed each other when they were not engaging in a war of words. This book examines why the global order of the 21st century demands a new partnership between the UN and business. If the UN fails to engage the business community, it is likely to become irrelevant. If global corporations y refuse to support the UN, they will face a closing world with disastrous consequences for the prosperity of all. The UN and business are bound to work together, and indeed they are.
Author: Oliver F. Williams C.S.C.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268096856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact contains a foreword, introduction, and twenty-one chapters by major business leaders and scholars who discuss the issues set out by the UN Global Compact. The chapters address the purpose of the corporation; the influence of legal and peace studies; the experience of career NGO officials and of business leaders; how commerce can help promote peace; and how we might envision the future. Ten case studies document the efforts of individual businesses, including IBM, Chevron, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, General Electric, Nestle, and Ford, to successfully serve society’s interests as well as their own. Peace through Commerce will lay the groundwork for courses in business schools on corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, and global environment of business. Contributors: Mark Moody-Stuart, Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C., Marilise Smurthwaite, Timothy L. Fort , Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, Douglass Cassel, Sean O’Brien, John Paul Lederach, Willie Esterhuyse, Mary Anderson, David B. Lowry, Donal A. O’Neill, Klaus M. Leisinger, Ofelia C. Eugenio, Brigitte Hélène Scherrer, Samery Abdelnour, Babiker Badri, Oana Branzei, Susan McGrath, David Wheeler, Gerald F. Cavanagh, S.J., Mary Ann Hazen, Brad Simmons, David Berdish, John Bee, Lisa Newton, Stanley Litow, Marshall Greenhut, Bob Corcoran, Daniel Malan, Alexandra Guáqueta, Thomas Costa, Lee Tavis, and Carolyn Y. Woo.
Author: Andreas Rasche
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521145538
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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A review of the first ten years of the world's largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative.
Author: Sandrine Teyssonneyre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781880632284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Author: Sidney Dell
Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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En gennemgang af FN og dets forhold til den internationale bank- og forretningsverden.
Author: Business International Corporation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Author: Chadwick F. Alger Professor Emeritus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851098062
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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From the beginnings of the Cold War to efforts to control Saddam Hussein's weapons program, this indispensable guide to the history and workings of the UN system shows how this widely misunderstood organization has helped to make the world a safer place and what its future prospects are likely to be. Rising from the ashes of World War II, the UN's birth was announced on October 24, 1945. Its military arm began in 1948 with the deployment of just 36 soldiers, tasked with supervising a fragile cease-fire in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since then it has undertaken more than 50 peacekeeping missions and concluded 500 multilateral conventions on human rights, arms control, environment, terrorism, and many other subjects. The United Nations System examines the continuing controversy that surrounds this organization. Whereas conservatives accuse the UN of wavering in the face of gross violations of its own resolutions by Saddam Hussein, many liberals have lambasted it for failing to take decisive action against genocide in the Balkans and in Rwanda. Highly readable and packed with useful facts and illustrations, this book is essential reading for those who wish to make up their own minds.
