The UN Global Compact is the most renowned corporate social responsibility initiative in the world. Rethinking the UN Global Compact brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners who have theorised, studied and articulated critiques against the UN Global Compact's soft approach to corporate regulation. The contributors critically interrogate facets of the UN Global Compact's history, politics and practices within and beyond the United Nations. This edited book provides theoretically informed and empirically rich perspectives on the UN Global Compact politics and contemporary debates on corporate social responsibility and corporate accountability.

Author Biography

Catia Gregoratti is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Bart Slob is a Senior Researcher at the Dutch NGO SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations). He has been involved in setting up and coordinating several civil society networks, such as Red Puentes, OECD Watch and Global Compact Critics.