Sustainable Development : The un Millennium Development Goals, the un Global Compact, and the Common Good.

Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: BUSINESS AND THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS -- Chapter One: The Role of Business in Society:The Microsoft Vision -- Chapter Two: A Public and Private Partnership: The ACHAP Experience in Botswana -- Chapter Three: Sumitomo Chemical and the Millennium Development Goals -- Chapter Four: Doing Well by Doing Good-The Nestlé Way -- Chapter Five: Coca-Cola and Society -- Chapter Six: Achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals -- Chapter Seven: How Global Employers Can Address HIV/AIDS -- Part II: SCHOLARSHIP ADVANCING THE ROLE OF BUSINESS IN SOCIETY -- Chapter Eight: Some Ethical Explications of the UN Framework for Business and Human Rights -- Chapter Nine: The United Nations Global Compact and Human Rights -- Chapter Ten: Integrative Social Contracts Theory and the UN Global Compact -- Chapter Eleven: The MDGs, Partnering for Results -- Chapter Twelve: Business-NGO Collaboration on Peace Building -- Chapter Thirteen: Putting Reputation at Risk -- Chapter Fourteen: The UN Global Compact -- Chapter Fifteen: Pursuing Purposeful Profit -- Chapter Sixteen: Employee Engagement through Social and Environmental Responsibility -- Chapter Seventeen: A Nonprofit Sector Perspective of the United Nations Global Compact and Millennium Goals -- Chapter Eighteen: Millennium Development Goals, Business Planning, and the UN Global Compact Management Model -- Chapter Nineteen: Do The Principles of Responsible Management Education Matter? -- Part III: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? -- Chapter Twenty: The Future of the United Nations Global Compact -- Chapter Twenty-one: Beyond Corporate Responsibility to the Common Good -- Chapter Twenty-two: Advancing Human Rights in Developing Countries -- Contributors -- Index.

Twenty-two essays document the work of Western companies, working through the UN Global Compact, to shape more peaceful and just societies.

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