ABSTRACT
In June 2010, the largest corporate responsibility (CR) initiative in the world, the United Nations Global Compact, celebrated ten years since its launch, with a Leaders Summit in New York. The Leaders Summit reflected some of that thinking, with emphasis placed on the need to reach a ‘tipping point’ in corporate responsibility and sustainability. If the Leaders Summit marks the beginning of a wider acknowledgement among CR and sustainable business professions of the need to serve systemic transformations, then it needs to be followed rapidly by a new awareness about where to learn about such change. The Deputy Director of the UN Global Compact, Gavin Power, expressed a more ambitious call that ‘companies and investors must work together to identify and overcome the barriers that prevent sustainability from being permanently embedded into the majority of global business activity’.
