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Reconfiguring Power Relations: The Missing Link in Sustainability Reporting

• Policy Brief: 32
• Code: RPB32
• Project Title: Sustainable Development Performance Indicators
• Programme Area: Alternative Economies for Transformation, Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development
• Author(s): Peter Utting

While corporations are being urged to shift to a more inclusive model of “stakeholder capitalism”, the reality is that power relations have become highly skewed in favour of particular interests, not least those of corporate or managerial elites. Lack of attention to power relations and how they need to be reconfigured is the elephant in the room when assessing how corporations perform in relation to sustainable development.

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• Publication and ordering details
• Pub. Date: 4 Dec 2020
  Pub. Place: Geneva
  ISSN: 1811-0142
  From: UNRISD/UN Publications