CSR, Development (MDGs) and the UN Global Compact

CSR, Development (MDGs) and the UN Global Compact
Background Paper for the conference organized by UNITAR and the Jewellery Industry in the UN Pavilion (Shanghai Exposition, China, Sept 21-23, 2010)
Source: MHCi Monthly Feature September 2010

Governments acknowledged the UN Global Compact as a means not only to motivate business to adopt a responsible approach to management, but also to engage business in finding constructive, inclusive and innovative solutions to global challenges. [Global Compact Leader’s Summit, 23-25 June, New York, 2010]2

Throughout our study, we could not find, at any time, any definition of the Global Compact on what the Corporate Social Responsibility would mean. In the documents searched, websites or articles and speeches in the UN or in the articles written by scholars that have studied the Global Compact, the UN vision of CSR has not been defined nor even tried. We see at this point, a failure, an interest or an opportunity for Global Compact/ UN and a possibility of analysis and exploration for scholars. [http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/]3

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