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Sustainable Contracts — A Legal Innovation Aimed at Serving the Common Good?

In: Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good

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  • Yann Queinnec

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The efforts of many economic actors to improve their social and environmental performance are clear for all to see. Their commitment to sustainable development is expressed varyingly through codes of conduct, communications campaigns, subscriptions to international principles such as the OECD guidelines (Queinnec, 2007a), the Global Compact, or the adoption of joint sector commitments. These commitments are accompanied by operational measures such as: raising awareness among staff and supply chain actors; implementing internal and external audit procedures; performance criteria; monitoring and reporting tools; partnerships with local stakeholders; and calling upon nonfinancial ratings agencies. Nevertheless, this profusion of initiatives demonstrating transnational companies’ (TNCs) awareness of their social responsibility is taking place without any legal security. Where such initiatives fall under a company’s international activity, it must cope with the complexity of relations with its foreign subsidiaries and supply chain actors (Queinnec, 2007b). Moreover, even for those firms most committed to sustainable development strategies, the scope of involvement expected from the parent company of a transnational group continues to be questioned.

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  • Yann Queinnec, 2012. "Sustainable Contracts — A Legal Innovation Aimed at Serving the Common Good?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Carole Bonanni & François Lépineux & Julia Roloff (ed.), Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good, chapter 2, pages 32-52, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-35489-0_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230354890_3
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