United Nations Global Compact: The Promise-Performance Gap

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 193-208

  Sethi, S Prakash ^a   Schepers, Donald H ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Global governance; Non market interventions; Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); Self regulation; UN and private sector collaboration; UN Global Compact; Voluntary codes of conduct

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902808707     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1629-y     Document Type: Article

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