Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Quest for a Global Code of Conduct for TNCs—A Grim Tale

   • Mia Mahmudur Rahim

   Pages 1-22

3. An ‘Instrument of Moral Persuasion’—Multinational Enterprises and International Codes of Conduct in the 1970s

   • Thomas Hajduk

   Pages 23-43

4. TNC Code of Conduct or CSR? A Regulatory Systems Perspective

   • Benedict Sheehy

   Pages 45-62

5. Behavioral Dynamics and Regulation of Transnational Corporations

   • Hervé Lado

   Pages 63-87

6. The UN Global Compact for Transnational Business and Peace: A Need for Orchestration?

   • Mariko Shoji

   Pages 89-110

7. Transnational Corporations’ Social License to Operate—The Third Facet of Corporate Governance

   • Indrajit Dube

   Pages 111-130

8. Enforcement of a Global Code of Conduct on TNC’s Operations

   • Vicki Waye

   Pages 131-153

9. Converged Approach in Regulation for Socializing Transnational Corporations

   • Mia Mahmudur Rahim

   Pages 155-184

10. Correction to: The UN Global Compact for Transnational Business and Peace: A Need for Orchestration?

    • Mariko Shoji

    Pages C1-C1

This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the formulation of a global code of conduct for transnational corporations. It assesses the current state of research on global regulations intended to enhance the social responsibility of transnational corporations, and provides a platform for future research.

In particular the book examines frameworks and instruments for regulating social responsibility, reviews recent developments concerning the proposed UN Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, and provides insights into international civil society groups’ movements in pursuit of a code of conduct. In a separate chapter the book discusses theoretical issues in regulating transnational corporations, and investigates their legitimacy and behavioral dynamics. In closing, the book discusses alternatives to a global code of conduct, the impact of sovereign power in the era of globalization, “soft regulations,” and the feasibility and normative efficacy of enforcing regulations.

• accountability
• global business compliance
• social responsibility of international corporations
• compliance officer
• meta-regulation
• legal regulation of CSR
• sustainability

• School of Law, University of South Australia , Adelaide, Australia

  Mia Mahmudur Rahim

Dr. Mia Mahmudur Rahim is a Senior Lecturer in corporate law at the University of South Australia. As an established researcher, he is particularly interested in different forms of regulation and how this relates to legal structures that encourage social responsibility and accountability practice of regulatees. One of his recent books "Legal Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility" has explained how a meta-regulation mode in laws can effectively raise social responsibility performance of corporations. He is a winner of some highly prestigious awards including the Chevening Scholarship, Graduate Scholarship of the National University of Singapore and the Macquarie University Research Excellence Award.

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