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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Global Compact"”.
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Global Governance for Global Goals: Private Market Standardization via the UN Global Compact and ISO 9001 Diffusion
Firms contribute to global governance and may influence global goals through private market standardization. Public-private partnerships and institutions formalize how such standardization, as a mode of the rule of law, underpins global value chains within and across borders. Local socio-political, …
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Unbearing burden of the refugee crisis on developing countries: Is the global compact on refugees the solution?
This research analyses the Global Compact on Refugees("GCR"), adopted in 2018 by the United Nations General Assembly. It aims to discuss whether the document, a non-legal document offers durable solutions to developing countries who host more than 80% of the world´s refugees and asylum seekers …
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Implementing the UN Global Compact: role of the law of contract in promoting sustainability in international supply chains
… to adopt and fully implement the UN Global Compact principles in their operations by influencing sustainability down their international supply chains. This analysis is premised on the various theories supporting the adoption of sustainable business practices by businesses in terms of …
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Self-reliance and the rights to work for refugees: lessons from the case studies of South Africa and Germany for the implementation of the Global Compact on refugees by the European Union
… of refugee self-reliance as driven by the UN Global Compact on Refugees are made. South Africa is the scene of an increasingly restrictive handling of traditionally generous refugee laws. Administrative or bureaucratic hurdles undermine the right of refugees to work or receive social benefits. …
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The Face of the Market
… can be established by the presence of strong Global Compact local networks. The work identifies three measures of openness and four sets of domestic conditions in which the Global Compact operates, respectively: (1) prevalence of trade, (2) measures of foreign direct investment and foreign …
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Socialiai atsakingas verslas: Lietuvoje veikiančių bankų atvejis /
… Lithuania, which belongs to the United Nations Global Compact (hereinafter – UNGC ), social responsibility reports, the two of them are Lithuanian capital (limited company “Šiaulių bankas” and private limited company “Medicinos bankas”) and two of them are foreign-owned banks (limited company …
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Denial and acknowledgement in CSR reporting discourse: a BHR perspective on corporate harm-related rhetoric
… The texts which I analyse are drawn from the globally recognised United Nations Global Compact Communication on Progress scheme, considering Anglophone manufacturing and extractive multinationals. In this way, I find that corporations, despite portraying themselves as expert, active, engaged …
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New trends in environmental and socially responsible management in the cement manufacturing.
… procedures. Guidelines were derived from the Global Reporting Initiative, the United Nations Global Compact and the new ISO 26000 standard, which promotes a new way of working towards innovation, value creation and incremental actions for transforming businesses to become more responsible. The …
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Global and local trajectories of social standardisation: The cases of Argentina and Brazil
… the interaction between a particular type of global governance mechanism – social standardisation – and national political economic structures in two countries of the global South: Argentina and Brazil. In doing so it provides a greater understanding of the emergence of new governance …
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Socially Responsible and Small: A Quantitative Study of Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Medium Organizations in the United States
… social responsibility (CSR) has become a global imperative supported by governments, industry, and citizens alike. In 2000, the United Nations launched the Global Compact to encourage businesses to adopt socially responsible policies. In tandem, businesses became increasingly attentive to …
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Leadership strategies employed in the public sector for promoting urban climate transition: the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… success of the Paris Agreement on achieving a global compact between nations to act on climate change, cities have emerged as interesting locations for studying climate leadership due to the failure at the national scale to translate adequate climate actions to meet the goals set. Cities have …
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Girl Incorporated. Corporate Empowerment Programmes for Women Workers: What Drives them and Who Benefits?
… professing to empower women and girls in the Global South. This trend – dubbed ‘Transnational Business Feminism’ (TBF) by feminist political economist Adrienne Roberts (2012) – has generated a lively debate amongst feminist social scientists around the ideological characteristics, limitations, …
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Análisis de los efectos y las mejores prácticas de las entidades bancarias colombianas adheridas a pacto global (2011-2015)
… han obtenido en la adhesión voluntaria con Pacto Global, durante el periodo de 2011 al 2015, analizando y verificando que sus prácticas documentadas e informadas en los COP´s, se encuentra alineadas bajo los diez principios propagados por Pacto Global enmarcados en las áreas de Derechos humanos, …