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The United Nations and Business: Towards New Modes of Global Governance?

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  • Carlos Fortin
  • Richard Jolly

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In the last decade and a half there have been sustained efforts on the part of the United Nations to bring the business sector into formal arrangements for dialogue and cooperation and to codify United Nations policies vis‐à‐vis business in order to give the relationship a more structured footing. This article reviews some of the most prominent of those efforts. In particular, it evaluates the available evidence about the extent to which they are achieving the aim of mobilising the skills and resources of private business for the furtherance of the goals of the United Nations; and about some of the main concerns raised by the UN–business interface, including the possible instrumentalisation of the relationship to gain public legitimacy or as a vehicle for business to influence United Nations policies and actions. It concludes that further research is needed to address these questions in a systematic manner.

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  • Carlos Fortin & Richard Jolly, 2015. "The United Nations and Business: Towards New Modes of Global Governance?," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 46(3), pages 45-58, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:46:y:2015:i:3:p:45-58
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    1. Štěpánka Zemanová & Radka Druláková, 2020. "Mainstreaming Global Sustainable Development Goals through the UN Global Compact: The Case of Visegrad Countries," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-10, February.
    2. Denise Baden, 2016. "A reconstruction of Carroll’s pyramid of corporate social responsibility for the 21st century," International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, Springer, vol. 1(1), pages 1-15, December.

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