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United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations
Corporate Conduct and the Public Interest
Series: Global Institutions
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The narrative offers an insider's perspective that challenges prevailing misconceptions and highlights both positive impacts and shortcomings of the UNCTC's efforts to balance national sovereignty, corporate responsibility, and international governance.
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This insightful and reflective account will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in international politics, global governance, corporate accountability, and the history of United Nations initiatives in transnational corporate regulation.
The UNCTC experience recounted in this book holds valuable lessons for international organization and will be of interest to student, scholars and practitioners alike.
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The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) was established in 1975 and abolished in 1992. It was an early effort by the UN to address the overlapping issues of national sovereignty, corporate responsibility, and global governance. These issues have since multiplied and deepened with globalisation. This book recounts the UNCTC experience and its lessons for international organisations.
This book is not only an insider perspective by two former staff members but also a collective memoir of the UNCTC as an international organisation that attempted, with varying success, to defuse the clash between corporates and states that erupted in the turbulent 1970s. This personal account of the UNCTC is a mixture of history, analysis, reflections, and critical commentaries, told in different voices that penetrate the bland persona of international civil service. In this retelling, the authors seek to address misconceptions amongst the more general literature and to provide accounts of both its positive and negative features.
The UNCTC experience recounted in this book holds valuable lessons for international organisations and will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners alike.
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Esteemed commentators praise this thorough research for illuminating the governance challenges posed by global corporate power. Juan Somavía calls it a vital study of efforts to tackle economic crises linked to influential multinationals. Kamal Hossain acknowledges the UNCTC's innovative role in assisting host countries with foreign investment and stresses the ongoing need for corporate social responsibility. Louis T. Wells highlights the book's value for organisations aiming to support developing countries in negotiating with foreign investors, noting the authors’ intimate knowledge of the subject.
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ISBN: 9780415733007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 31 March 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 498g
Pages: 318
About the Author
Khalil Hamdani was chief of the UNCTC executive office and later the director of the programme. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and holds a PhD in Economics from Georgetown University. He served 29 years with the United Nations. He created the UN work on investment policy reviews, which was declared a "valuable mechanism" by the G-8 Heads of State Summit in 2007. The related series of investment blue books received the Smart Regulation Africa Investor Award in 2007, and in 2005. He has provided policy advice and training to investment officials in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. He has interacted with governments at the highest level. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and is a member of several advisory councils. He has prepared many UN reports, published journal articles and is co-editor of a book on The New Globalism and Developing Countries, co-edited with John Dunning, which was a 1997 best seller for the United Nations University Press and reprinted for the Asian market. He was one of the drafters of the Human Development Report 2013: Rise of the South. His recent publications also include commentaries in the Annual Review of United Nations Affairs published by the Oxford University Press in 2012 and 2013. Lorraine Ruffing worked for five different United Nations agencies over the last 22 years. Previously she worked for the US Senate and taught at major universities. She holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. She led the work of the UNCTC Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) and also headed up the work on enterprise development. She helped open the UN office in Tashkent where she served as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative. Her recent activity includes preparation of the OECD annual publication on "Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs" which documents their access to finance before, during and after the financial crisis. She has written university level courses on corporate governance and critical articles on the deficiencies in corporate social responsibility disclosure.
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