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| John Ruggie
2020, Book Chapter: "The chapter is organized in three parts. The first briefly summarizes why the narrowly construed shareholder primacy doctrine simply hasn’t been an adequate conceptual foundation for the public corporation for some time. The second sketches out the rise of ESG investing, its performance, and its potential role in reinforcing corporate “repurposing.” The third addresses potential impediments to the further rapid growth in ESG…
| Jane Nelson | John Ruggie | David Wood
October 16, 2020, Video; "In this episode of Harvard Kennedy School's Dean's Discussions, members of the HKS faculty discuss the ways that the private sector can be a force for social change."
| John Ruggie
The Paradox of Corporate Globalization: Disembedding and Reembedding Governing Norms. John Ruggie, 2020, Paper, "The political economy of the post-World War II West was shaped by normative understandings and institutional arrangements that scholars describe as embedded liberalism. It coupled governments’ commitments to progressively liberalize trade as well as establish free and stable exchange rates with maintaining adequate domestic policy…
| John Ruggie
2019, Book Chapter, "On August 19, 2019, the U.S. Business Roundtable (BR), comprising the CEOs of more than 200 of America’s largest corporations, issued a new mission statement on “the purpose of a corporation” (BR, 2019a). The press release noted that each periodic update on principles of corporate governance since 1997 had endorsed the principle of maximizing shareholder value. In contrast, the new statement commits signatory CEOs “to lead…
| John Ruggie
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Global Compact. John Ruggie, 2017, Book Chapter, "Under the leadership of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the United Nations has played an active role in promoting corporate social responsibility as one means to respond to the challenges of globalisation.'You do not need to wait for governments to pass..."…
| John Ruggie
Multinationals as Global Institution: Power, Authority and Relative Autonomy. John Gerard Ruggie, June 8, 2017, Paper, "This article aims to inform the long-standing and unresolved debate between voluntary corporate social responsibility and initiatives to impose binding legal obligations on multinational enterprises. The two approaches share a common feature: neither can fully specify its own scope conditions, that is, how much of the people…
| John Ruggie
Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Normative Innovations and Implementation Challenges. John Ruggie, May 3, 2015, Paper. "Business and human rights became an increasingly prominent feature on the international agenda in the 1990s. Global markets widened and deepened significantly as a result of trade liberalization, privatization, deregulation, and off-shoring production as well as financial centers. The rights…
| John Ruggie
Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights. John Gerard Ruggie , 2013, Book. "One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed, from Indonesian sweatshops to oil-based violence in Nigeria, the challenges of regulating harmful corporate practices in some of the world’s most difficult…