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Global compact – African impact:
Malan, Daniel
Malan, Daniel
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The United Nations Global Compact is the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative, and describes itself as “a framework for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with 10 universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption” (www.globalcompact.org). The paper describes and assesses African company participation in the Global Compact. Through a brief analysis of Communications on Progress (CoPs) that have been submitted by participating companies, the local value added is discussed within the context of Integrative Social Contracts Theory. The 10 principles of the Global Compact can potentially be regarded as hyper norms – they are based on widely accepted international norms and enjoy a very high level of support in terms of country legislation and international conventions. The application of the principles should be seen within the context of micro contracts – the activities that companies report on are always context specific. At the moment, African participation is very limited – the 93 African company participants account for less than 5% of global company participation. Although it has been very encouraging to see increasing levels of participation since 2006, the litmus test will be the scope and quality of Communications of Progress to be published over the next year or two. At the moment, it is not very encouraging to see the low levels of communication as well as the varying quality of CoPs.
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2008
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