Articles & Papers

2006

Trade and Human Rights at Work: Next Round, Please...? - Article by Dr. Andreas Bluethner, Attorney-at-Law, Associate Lecturer International Economic Law (MLC) at University of Mannheim and Coordinator Strategy Development with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Anti-Corruption and Corporate Citizenship - Article by Georg Kell in Development Outreach, World Bank Institute, September 2006

On Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights - Article by Klaus Leisinger, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on the Global Compact, April 2006

2005

Up to Code: Does Your Company's Conduct Meet World-Class Standards?
Article by Lynn Paine, Rohit Deshpande, Joshua D. Margolis, Kim Eric Bettcher, Harvard Business Review, 1 December 2005

Partnerships That Profit the Poor
Article on the UNDP/GC Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) Initiative, Financial Times, 31 March 2005. Copyright © 2005 Financial Times

The UN Global Compact: Moving to the Business Mainstream
Interview with Georg Kell for PriceWaterhouseCoopers: The Corporate Responsibility Report (Volume II, Winter 2005). Copyright © 2005 PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Following up the World Summit on Sustainable Development Commitments on Corporate Social Responsibility: Options for action by governments
Report by Fanny Calder of the Chatham House Sustainable Development Programme.

Advancing Corporate Citizenship in China
Article by Gavin Power, Global Compact Head of Communications, for Sustainable Development International (SDI 13-22/2). Copyright © 2005 Sustainable Development International

A Channel Into China
Op-Ed by Hank McKinnell, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc., for the New York Stock Exchange Magazine. Copyright © 2005 The New York Stock Exchange

Managing Risks
Article by Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan for the World Economic Forum's Global Affairs (2005 Issue)

2004

Responsible Excellence Pays
Article by Claude Fussler for the Journal of Corporate Citizenship (JCC 16/Winter 2004) © 2004 Greenleaf Publishing

Op-Ed piece by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for Nikkei
(Japan), 24 March 2004

2003

"Leader to leader" commentary to Special Edition on Business and Human Rights
Article by the late Sergio Vieira de Mello, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,New Academy Review , 5th Edition, 2003

Global Compact Challenges Firms
China Business Weekly
17 April 2003

Newsmaker: Georg Kell
Interview with Georg Kell by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
February 2003

Signing Up to Corporate Citizenship
(PDF, 71kb) - Article on the Global Compact published in the Financial Times (London)
12 February 2003

2002

Measures of Engagement in the UN Global Compact's Global Policy Dialogues
(PDF, 55kb) - by Gavin Power, Accountability Quarterly
December 2002

De-compacting the Global Compact
(PDF, 104kb) - Paper presented by Thomas Donaldson, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Denver, August 2002

The Evolution of the Global Compact Network: An Historic Experiment in Learning and Action (PDF, 305 kb) - by Georg Kell and David Levin
Denver, August 2002

Taking Embedded Liberalism Global: The Corporate Connection
(PDF, 614 kb) - Paper submitted to the American Political Science Association, by John Ruggie, Harvard University

”Globalization, minima moralia, and the responsibilities of multinational companies"
(PDF, 270kb)- Klaus M. Leisinger

"Creating the Tipping Point" Reflections by Sandra Waddock, Boston College"
University of Notre Dame
21-23 April 2002