Global Corporate Accountability

Corporate Accountability

What Is Corporate Accountability?

Since the 1990s, the world has witnessed the growing importance and visibility of a range of initiatives led by businesses, social organisations and governments, with the stated aim of pressuring companies to behave in more socially responsible and accountable ways. This is a new development for many parts of the business world. Previously, the state (or government) was assumed to lead standard...

Independent global accountability for NCDs.

Civil Society, Corporate Accountability and the Politics of Climate Change

Accountability and corporate governance of public private partnerships

Brennan and Solomon (2008) identify six new frontiers in accountability and corporate governance research to stimulate research. This paper contributes to such research by devising a reporting framework and research agenda that relates to Brennan and Solomon’s fourth frontier, sectors and context, focusing on the regulated hybrid organisational forms of Public Private Partnerships, which operat...