Civil Society Hearing “Whose Partnership for Whose Development?: Corporate Accountability in the UN System beyond the Global Compact”

Peter Utting’s speech to the International Forum on the Social-Science Policy Nexus highlights a number of institutional developments and forms of regulatory policies to promote corporate accountability

Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Regulation

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.UNRISD_CoportateSocialResponsibilityAndBusinessRegulation_2004.pdf: 4087 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Corporate Responsibility and Labour Issues in China: Reflections on a Beijing Conference

Brief notes on some of the issues discussed at a conference in Beijing concerning corporate responsibility and labor issues in China. The discussion centers on whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) can move on from the current experimental phase into a broader system for “regulating” business practices. Further, it reviews the main factors and conditions that encourage or oblige individual companies to engage with the CSR agenda, and that need to be in place if CSR is to be scaled-up

The Global Compact: Why All the Fuss?

Brief article providing an outline of the Global Compact and the polarized opinions of critics and supporters of the nine principles embodied within it. It also discusses the trade-offs and diversions that the compact generates

Conference News: Business, Social Policy and Corporate Political Influence in Developing Countries

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.UNRISD_Conference_BusSocPolCorpPoliInfluence.pdf: 1114 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

The Peasant Question and Development Policy in Nicaragua

Summary Summary Government policy towards the peasantry has undergone significant changes during the past three years. This article identifies the principal changes involved and analyses why they occurred. The peasant question in Nicaragua, as in other socialist transitions, has involved dealing with four key issues associated with the growth of overall food production, the extraction of surplus, improving living levels of peasant families and forging the worker?peasant alliance. A combination of factors had a negative impact on each of these. Correcting a series of planning imbalances provided the government with room for manoeuvre to deal with the peasant question and consolidate a ‘survival economy’. Resumé Resumé La Question Paysanne et la Politique de Développement au Nicaragua La politique du gouvernement vis?à?vis la classe paysanne, a été substantiellement revue dans les trois dernières années. Cet article identifie les changements principaux et analyse la raison pour laquelle ils eurent lieu. La question paysanne au Nicaragua, comme dans toutes autres transitions socialistes, a inclu, faire face à quatre problèmes essentiels associés à la croissance générale de la production pour l'alimentation, l'extraction du surplus, l'ammélioration du niveau de vie des familles paysannes et créer l'alliance travailleurs?paysans. Une combinaison de facteurs ont eu un impacte négatif sur chacun d'eux. La correction d'une série de mauvais ajustements dans la planification procura au gouvernement l'espace nécessaire pour prendre en considération la question paysanne et consolider ‘l'économie d'urgence’

The ODO project: a Case Study in Integration of Multimedia Services

Recent years have witnessed a steady growth in the availability of wide-area multi-service networks. These support a variety of traffic types including data, control messages, audio and video. Consequently they are often thought of as integrated media carriers. To date, however, use of these networks has been limited to isolated applications which exhibit very little or no integration amongst themselves. This paper describes a project which investigated organisational, user interfacing and programming techniques to exploit this integration of services at the application level

Can Stakeholders do the Trick?

Neue Formen der Unternehmenssteuerung, oft Multistakeholder Initiativen genannt, sind in den letzten Jahren entwickelt worden, um die Leistungen von großen Firmen in den Bereichen Soziales, Umwelt und Menschenrechte zu verbessern. Multistakeholder Ansätze sind eine Reaktion auf die Probleme und Schwächen von Selbstverpflichtungen und Unternehmensstandards, die mit ei­ner Reihe von Verfahren wie Zertifizierung und verbesserter Überwachung optimiert werden sollen. Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die gängigsten Me­thoden im Feld und diskutiert deren Vor- und Nachteile

3. Direktinvestitionen und soziale Verantwortung der Unternehmen

3.1 Schweizerische Direktinvestitionen in den Transformations-, Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern Einleitung Direktinvestitionen und Entwicklungspolitik : Welches Datenmaterial steht für die Analyse dieses Themas zur Verfügung ? Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit den Grundlagen der Direktinvestitionsstatistik. Zudem werden Ergebnisse für die Schweiz vorgestellt. Ausgangspunkt ist eine Beschreibung der Normen, welche von Internationalen Organisationen zur Harmonisierung der nationalen Direktinve..

Automatic detection of pitching and throwing events in baseball with inertial measurement sensors

Purpose: Throwing loads are known to be closely related to injury risk. However, for logistic reasons, typically only pitchers have their throws counted, and then only during innings. Accordingly, all other throws made are not counted, so estimates of throws made by players may be inaccurately recorded and underreported. A potential solution to this is the use of wearable microtechnology to automatically detect, quantify, and report pitch counts in baseball. This study investigated the accuracy of detection of baseball pitching and throwing in both practice and competition using a commercially available wearable microtechnology unit. Methods: Seventeen elite youth baseball players (mean ± SD age 16.5 ± 0.8 y, height 184.1 ± 5.5 cm, mass 78.3 ± 7.7 kg) participated in this study. Participants performed pitching, fielding, and throwing during practice and competition while wearing a microtechnology unit. Sensitivity and specificity of a pitching and throwing algorithm were determined by comparing automatic measures (ie, microtechnology unit) with direct measures (ie, manually recorded pitching counts). Results: The pitching and throwing algorithm was sensitive during both practice (100%) and competition (100%). Specificity was poorer during both practice (79.8%) and competition (74.4%). Conclusions: These findings demonstrate that the microtechnology unit is sensitive to detect pitching and throwing events, but further development of the pitching algorithm is required to accurately and consistently quantify throwing loads using microtechnology. © 2017 Human Kinetics, Inc