ABSTRACT
US business-known for its innovation, competition and speed of action-has been slow to embrace the UN Global Compact. In July 2003, when the Global Compact celebrated the third anniversary of its founding, only a handful of major US companies could be counted among the nearly 1,000 firms around the world that had signed it. Pfizer Inc., a US pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, was among the early adopters.
