Peter Davis
Corporations, Global Governance and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Buch
Over the past 20 years, the international community has shown an increased desire to intervene to re-build societies emerging from war. From East Timor to Bosnia; from Azerbaijan to Mozambique, UN agencies and bilateral donors have stepped in to create stable durable societies in the aftermath of conflict. During the same period, there has also been increased attention paid to the developing role on the world stage of multinational companies. Statistics suggesting that 51 of the world's largest economies are corporations, and the acceleration of so-called globalisation has led to a considerable focus on how private sector organisations fit in…
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Over the past 20 years, the international community has shown an increased desire to intervene to re-build societies emerging from war. From East Timor to Bosnia; from Azerbaijan to Mozambique, UN agencies and bilateral donors have stepped in to create stable durable societies in the aftermath of conflict. During the same period, there has also been increased attention paid to the developing role on the world stage of multinational companies. Statistics suggesting that 51 of the world's largest economies are corporations, and the acceleration of so-called globalisation has led to a considerable focus on how private sector organisations fit into established processes of global governance. This book looks at the impact multinational companies have in post-conflict environments, the role they have and how they are governed. Drawing on detailed fieldwork in three post-conflict countries-- Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Rwanda--Peter Davis considers in each case the impacts that international companies have had on the reconstruction programme in each location, and what governance processes are used by companies and by state agencies to manage these impacts. Based on this evidence, this book then draws hypotheses about how the international corporate sector might better be integrated into post-conflict efforts, and considers the implications of this both for how companies manage themselves, and for how the development community's relationship with the private sector--
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-415-61724-6
- EAN: 9780415617246
- Produktnummer: 23193754
- Verlag: Taylor and Francis
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 499 g
- Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 499
Über den Autor
Peter Davis advises companies and government agencies on issues of international development, political economy ethics and governance. He works with organisations including the UK's Department for International Development, the Swedish International Development Agency, Anglo American, Northrop Grumman and Rexam.He is a former Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, and is a member of the visiting faculty at Henley Business School, UK. He is a graduate of Oxford University, and holds a PhD from London University
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