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Type	Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings	Yes
Title	Multinational corporations as corporate citizens: an empirical analysis of UN Global Compact participants in Switzerland
Organization Unit	Department of Business Administration (Egon Franck)
Authors	D Baumann
Presentation Type	paper
Item Subtype	Original Work
Refereed	Yes
Status	Published in final form
Language	English
Event Title	Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics
Event Type	conference
Event Location	Anaheim, CA, USA
Event Start Date	August 7 - 2008
Event End Date	August 10 - 2008
Abstract Text	The UN Global Compact (UNGC) is the largest “corporate citizenship” (CC) initiative in the world. Almost 4000 companies have signed up for the initiative whereby they voluntarily commit themselves to adhere to ten principles in the areas of human rights, labor rights, the environment and corruption (www.unglobalcompact.org). Eight years after the launch of the UNGC the question rises how far the participants have progressed in the implementation of the Compact’s principles. This paper presents the results of an empirical assessment of the implementation process at five Swiss UNGC participants. The results illustrate that CC is a learning process and corporations are at different stages of development. To date, only few companies are implementing CC as intended by the founders of the UNGC yet some aspects show that companies assume a political role in their global business activities. Thus, the study confirms the theoretical argument of corporations contributing to emerging global governance structures (Palazzo/Scherer 2006).
Official URL	http://www.societyforbusinessethics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79&Itemid=155
Other Identification Number	merlin-id:1027
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Additional Information	Dorothee Baumann was awarded as the second best paper at the Conference Best Paper Award of the Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting 2008 in Anaheim (USA), August 7-10, 2008.