ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the emerging institutional forms that are shaping the landscape for businesses and other enterprises—not from the perspective of existing global institutions with their own agendas, but with the idea of generating new pressures and forces that shape the how business and other enterprises operate. It explores some of the emerging—typically networked—initiatives and enterprises, starting with the Global Compact and looking at other types of boundary spanning entities, as a possible way for a new form of global governance to emerge. The most frequent boundary that executives felt needed crossing was horizontal; however, geographic, demographic and stakeholder boundaries also received particular mention, especially within the realm of top executives. The chapter discusses one way of challenging the international business community to help the UN implement universal values in the areas of human rights, environment and labour'. It finds another way of organising the globalised world of the 21st century—and so far it have not found'.
