Author: Tagi Sagafi-nejad Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253000696 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 626
Book Description
Are transnational corporations (TNCs) and foreign direct investment beneficial or harmful to societies around the world? Since the birth of the United Nations more than 60 years ago, these questions have been major issues of interest and involvement for UN institutions. What have been the key ideas generated by the UN about TNCs and their relations with nation-states? How have these ideas evolved and what has been their impact? This book examines the history of UN engagement with TNCs, including the creation of the UN Commission and Centre on Transnational Corporations in 1974, the failed efforts of these bodies to craft a code of conduct to temper the revealed abuses of TNCs, and, with the advent of globalization in the 1980s, the evolution of a more cooperative relationship between TNCs and developing countries, resulting in the 1999 Global Compact.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations Publisher: ISBN: Category : International business enterprises Languages : en Pages : 96
Author: Mia Mahmudur Rahim Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030108163 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the formulation of a global code of conduct for transnational corporations. It assesses the current state of research on global regulations intended to enhance the social responsibility of transnational corporations, and provides a platform for future research. In particular the book examines frameworks and instruments for regulating social responsibility, reviews recent developments concerning the proposed UN Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, and provides insights into international civil society groups’ movements in pursuit of a code of conduct. In a separate chapter the book discusses theoretical issues in regulating transnational corporations, and investigates their legitimacy and behavioral dynamics. In closing, the book discusses alternatives to a global code of conduct, the impact of sovereign power in the era of globalization, “soft regulations,” and the feasibility and normative efficacy of enforcing regulations.
Author: Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations) Publisher: ISBN: 9780853330851 Category : International business enterprises Languages : en Pages : 80
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations Publisher: ISBN: Category : International business enterprises Languages : en Pages : 0
Author: Khalil Hamdani Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317528271 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) was established in 1975 and abolished in 1992. It was an early effort by the UN to address the overlapping issues of national sovereignty, corporate responsibility and global governance. These issues have since multiplied and deepened with globalization. This book recounts the UNCTC experience and its lessons for international organizations. This book is not only an insider perspective by two former staff but also a collective memoir of the UNCTC as an international organization that attempted with varying success to defuse the clash between corporates and states that erupted in the turbulent 1970s. This personal account of the UNCTC is a mixture of history, analysis, reflections, and critical commentaries, told in different voices that penetrate the bland persona of international civil service. In this retelling, the authors seek to address misconceptions amongst the more general literature and to seek to provide accounts of both its positive and negative features. The UNCTC experience recounted in this book holds valuable lessons for international organization and will be of interest to student, scholars and practitioners alike.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans, and Environment Publisher: ISBN: Category : International business enterprises Languages : en Pages : 66
Author: Werner J. Feld Publisher: Pergamon ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
Monograph on the role of UN and specialized agencies in developing a code of practice intended to prevent multinational enterprises from negatively impacting economic and social development in developing countries - describes problem areas relating to employment, technology transfer, corruption and restrictive business practices, reviews proceedings of the commission on transnational corporations, discusses definition, legal status and implementation of a UN code, and considers alternative icc and OECD guidelines. References.
Author: Tagi Sagafi-nejad
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations
Author: Mia Mahmudur Rahim
Author: Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations)
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations
Author: Detlev F. Vagts
Author: Glenn Winters
Author: Khalil Hamdani
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans, and Environment
Author: Werner J. Feld