The United Nations Global Compact: Engaging Implicit and Explicit CSR for Global Governance

Brown, Jill A.; Clark, Cynthia E.; Buono, Anthony F.

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“…The 17 SDGs are the roadmap that United Nations included into the "2030 Sustainable Agenda" and the centre of the global political agenda to achieve the support of all organizations and individuals in order to create a more just, responsible and sustainable world [3,64,80]. The SDGs are based on values for human rights respect, justice, health and well-being for all the population, in an environmentally safe planet [3,81].…”

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“…Text encoding is necessary to reduce the large number of words included in the analysed documents in a much smaller number of categories those could be manage much more easily for the semantic analysis of the content and its classification [95,96]. The framework used for encoding the SR' content is based on the "17 Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs) published by United Nations on 27 September 2015 [3,27,64]. The SDGs are a very important code of analysis to understand the alignment and communication priorities of the BS just after the "UN 2030 Sustainable Agenda" publication [97].…”

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“…The most relevant framework for BS sustainable and responsible strategies is, with no doubt, the one defined by the United Nations, through two organizations which work side by side with corporations and academic institutions worldwide: the Global Compact and the Principle for Responsible Management Education (PRME) [62][63][64][65][66][67].…”

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Gender Equality and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Priorities and Correlations in the Top Business Schools’ Communication and Legitimation Strategies

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Gender equality is still an issue in business schools, since women in MBAs classrooms, in faculty and in management teams have low representation. Challenges caused by lack of financial aids, salaries gap and a very masculine model avoid a better gender balance in the business graduate schools, which, globally, should lead women personal and professional development. The main objective of this research is to analyse business schools communication priorities related to gender equality projects and policies in their sustainability reports, considering these as a fundamental tool for corporate legitimacy. Through a content analysis of the sustainable reports of the top 50 business schools of the world, we elaborate a “Codes Frequency Report” focusing on “Goal 4: quality of education” (in relation with scholarships and grants allocation) and “Goal 5: gender equality” and we explore the correlations with the schools’ ranking positions, the price of the MBA programmes, the percentage of female MBA students, of female faculty members and women in board of directors in the different geographical areas as Europe, US and Asia. Results show that gender equality related topics are a source of positive impact and legitimacy for top business schools.

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“…Recent studies have used Matten and Moon's (2008) framework to examine differences in CSR practices between organisations (Brown, Clark, & Buono, 2018;Carson, Hagen, & Sethi, 2015). In the light of this work, sports scholars have encouraged researchers to analyse multi-level factors in order to 'shed some light on what the drivers of CSR adoption and maintenance are' (Babiak & Wolfe, 2009, p. 736).…”

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A multilevel analysis of implicit and explicit CSR in French and UK professional sport

Avril

Bayle

Gond

2018

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Research question: This paper examines the ways in which French and UK professional sports clubs implement and communicate their CSR policies. In addition to identifying similarities and differences between CSR practices in the two countries, our analysis extends and adapts the implicit-explicit CSR framework to the field of sport. Research methods: We used a mixed methods approach to analyse qualitative and quantitative data on the CSR strategies of 66 professional rugby union (Top 14, Aviva Premiership Rugby) and football (Ligue 1, Premier League) clubs that participated in the 2017-2018 season. Results and findings: We found major differences in CSR communication between France and the UK. Communication by French clubs tends to highlight sport's values, involve few media channels, whereas communication by UK clubs explicitly vaunts their social responsibility and involves numerous channels. In the case of CSR implementation, there are similarities between French and UK clubs, especially in the fields their CSR initiatives cover (e.g. health, diversity), as well as differences. However, the scope of initiatives varies more between sports than between countries, with football demonstrating a more international outlook than rugby. Implications: This article expands Matten and Moon's [(2008). 'Implicit' and 'explicit' CSR: A conceptual framework for a comparative understanding of corporate social responsibility. Academy of Management Review, 33(2), 404-424] implicit-explicit CSR framework by identifying the influence of interactions between sectorial/field-level factors and national/macro-level factors on CSR practices, and by distinguishing between CSR communication and CSR implementation. Our results throw light on the shift from implicit to explicit CSR in French professional sport.

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“…In the following two decades, the UNGC has grown from an initial group of 44 large multinationals (Brown et al 2018) into the world's largest CSR initiative, often being considered the most prominent 2 of 10 one (Abdelzaher et al 2019). Currently, it reports on over 12,000 participants (of which approximately 9500 are companies) from more than 160 countries (United Nations Global Compact 2018).…”

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Mainstreaming Global Sustainable Development Goals through the UN Global Compact: The Case of Visegrad Countries

Zemanová

Druláková

2020

JRFM

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Since 2016, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), one of the most prominent worldwide corporate social responsibility and sustainability initiatives, has been linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, despite the enormous scholarly interest in the UNGC since the very beginning, its impact on the integration of the SDGs into the business activities, risk management and reporting of its participants remains understudied. This paper examines support and action for the SDGs among companies from the Visegrad Four (V4) countries. It attempts to find out whether the recent UNGC efforts result in their mobilisation towards the SDGs' implementation or merely creates a new space for instrumental adoption to improve image and reputation. The paper adopts qualitative content analysis of 42 Communications of Progress (COPs), submitted by 25 companies from the V4 in 2017-2019. The related self-assessments in the UNGC Participation Database were also used. It reveals that the companies obviously fulfil their obligation to report their activities related to SDGs but fail to provide relevant details. Moreover, divergences between the challenges faced by V4 countries and the priorities of the companies related to individual SDGs are also identified. This raises serious concerns about the UNGC's practical effects.

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The United Nations Global Compact: Engaging Implicit and Explicit CSR for Global Governance

Cited by 39 publications

References 77 publications

Gender Equality and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Priorities and Correlations in the Top Business Schools’ Communication and Legitimation Strategies

Gender Equality and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Priorities and Correlations in the Top Business Schools’ Communication and Legitimation Strategies

A multilevel analysis of implicit and explicit CSR in French and UK professional sport

Mainstreaming Global Sustainable Development Goals through the UN Global Compact: The Case of Visegrad Countries

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