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Globally Responsible Leadership
Managing According to the UN Global Compact
Edited by:
- Joanne T. Lawrence - Hult International Business School
- Paul W. Beamish - Western University, Canada
Series:
The Ivey Casebook Series
The Ivey Casebook Series
May 2012 | 576 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
What does a truly global manager today need to know to lead responsibly? How does he or she develop the core management competencies needed? This book uses the UN Global Compact and its Ten Principles as an overarching framework for understanding the issues facing global business managers today. Drawing on the knowledge of contributors from different parts of the world, the book shows readers the intersection between business and the major global issues of our timeùhuman rights, labor, the environment, anti-corruption and briberyùand most critically, how to address these issues in the day-to-day running of their operations.
Georg Kell
Foreword
Joanne T. Lawrence, Paul W. Beamish
Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
PART I. BACKGROUND
Joanne T. Lawrence
1. Responsible Business: A Brief Perspective
Danial Malan
2. The Business of Business Is (Responsible) Business
Andreas Rasche
3. The United Nations and the Transnational Corporations: How the UN Global Compact Has Changed the Debate
Sandra Waddock
4. Context and Dynamics of the UN Global Compact: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
PART II. THE TEN PRINCIPLES OF THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT
Florian Wettstein
5. Human Rights as Ethical Imperatives for Business: The UN Global Compact's Human Rights Principles
Michael J. D. Roberts
6. Our Role as Managers in Understanding and Fulfilling the Labour Principles of the UN Global Compact
David Cooperrrider, Nadya Zhexembayeva
7. Embedded Sustainability and the Innovation-Producing Potential of the UN Global Compact's Environmental Principles
Peter Rodriguez
8. The Challenges of Corruption in Business, Government, and Society
PART III. CASE STUDIES: THE TEN PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
Human Rights
Henry W. Lane, David T. A. Wesley
Deborah Compeau, Prahar Shah
Klaus Meyer
Lawrence G. Tapp, Gail Robertson
Labour
Saul Klein, Albert Wocke
Niraj Dawar, Jordan Mitchell
Tieying Huang, Junping Liang, Paul W. Beamish
Lawrence A. Beer
Charles Dhanaraj, Oana Branzei, Satyajeet Subramanian
Cara C. Maurer, Ken Mark
Paul W. Beamish, Jaechul Jung, Joyce Miller
Alison Konrad, Ken Mark
Environment
Michael Sider, Jana Seijts, Ramasastry Chandrasekhar
Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi, Paul W. Beamish
Rudiger Hahn
Oana Branzei, Kim Poldner
Paul W. Beamish, Jordan Mitchell
Jennifer Lynes
Anti-corruption
Paul W. Beamish, Jean-Louis Schaan
Joerg Dietz, Ankur Grover, Laura Guerrero
Ajai Gaur, Nisha Kohl
PART IV. APPENDIXES: EXCERPTS FROM THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT WEBSITE
Appendix A. The Corporate Commitment
Appendix B. The Communication on Progress Report
Appendix C. Leadership Blueprint: Blueprint for Corporate Sustainability Leadership Within the Global Compact
Appendix D. UN Global Compact Communication on Progress and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
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A modern Approach for Understanding global Leadership
Institute of Management, Magdeburg University of Applied Sci's
February 20, 2013
An excellent book with good contextual and theoretical background on the UN Global Compact and a selection of cases that highlight the ten principles of the Compact.
It transcends the conventional boundaries of leadership research and practice by making a bold stance on global challenges.
This is strongly recommended to MBA students who face an highly uncertain and challenging environment with little sense of direction and mission.
It could be used not only for leadership classes but also business & society or CSR classes.
Kent Buisness School, University of Kent
November 29, 2012
In today's world business leaders need to have a global perspective and this book helps them to look at responsible leadership in the wider context
School of Business, Royal Agricultural College
October 31, 2012
Case studies are excellent and I will be drawing the main text to the attention of students - it highlights issues all international business managers should be aware of.
School of Business, Hertfordshire University
August 17, 2012
Useful tangential thought for our global leadership series.
Huddersfield University Business Schl, Huddersfield University
May 25, 2012