Global Sustainability Governance and the UN Global Compact: A Rejoinder to Critics

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 209-216

  Rasche, Andreas ^a   Waddock, Sandra ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School CBS Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility ^*  (Denmark)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business regulation; Corporate sustainability and responsibility; Public private partnerships; Soft law; United Nations Global Compact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902777971     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2216-6     Document Type: Article

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